By January 1941, the £5,000 figure was reached and the Ministry of Aircraft Production named a Mark Vb Spitfire, number W3320, the 'Darlington Spitfire'. It was attached to 92 Squadron, the country's ...

An award-winning filmmaker, better known for his short horror films, is set to release his second documentary on a County Durham non-league ...

Plans to turn a Saltburn butcher’s shop into a micro pub are to be considered by Redcar and Cleveland Council.

A child sex offender has been jailed for 48 months after being found guilty of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

One person has been taken to hospital after the air ambulance was called to a medical incident in Bishop Auckland today (May 6). The North East Ambulance Service responded to a 'medical incident' at a ...

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a Britain’s Got Talent finalist accused of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, competed as a singer on the television programme in 2008, ...

A woman accused of having an illegal abortion is “still utterly traumatised” by her experience, her barrister has said as she told jurors the facts of her client’s case “are a tragedy but they are not ...

A five-storey student accommodation block was evacuated after a flat set ablaze. Emergency services were called to The Glassworks student accommodation on Coquet Street, in Newcastle, on Sunday ...

Plans to build a house in a Darlington village have been submitted to the council. The proposal, submitted by Jonathan Saddington of Saddington Taylor Planning on behalf of Dr A and Mrs C Marshall, ...

A violent Middlesbrough bully who was caught on camera repeatedly punching his wife after he chased her out of the house while he was naked has ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...

Paris St Germain boss Luis Enrique has confirmed his star man Ousmane Dembele is fit for the second leg of their Champions League semi-final against Arsenal. Enrique had been sweating over the ...