MIDDLESBROUGH have completed the signing of Josh Dede from Celtic. The Scotland Under-19 international is a right-back but also comfortable playing further forward on the wing. He has been involved ...

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...

A college has achieved a 'good' rating in its latest Ofsted inspection. Bishop Auckland College was inspected by Ofsted in December, and the report has now been published.

The success of town centre events and family trails has been praised for attracting thousands more visitors to Darlington.

A County Durham drugs kingpin who went on the run in Eastern Europe has been ordered to pay back more than £40,000 from his ill-gotten gains.

The service will be held in the church where Nolan married her husband of more than two decades, Brian Hudson.

Here the PA news agency looks at five talking points heading into the match. Hot on the heels of an unsuccessful autumn, Steve Borthwick is confronted with a trio of fixtures that could imperil his ...

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

A teenager lost the tip of his finger after a three-vehicle crash in Easington last night. The incident, which happened just after 6pm outside Burger8, Seaside Lane, involved a silver Ford Mondeo, a ...