Durham OnAir

Discover Stanhope, the County Durham market town with a 320-million-year-old fossil tree, historic church and Weardale countryside.

A County Durham café inside a historic antiques and furniture shop has earned a 4.8-star Tripadvisor rating, with visitors praising its food and vintage setting.

Aaron Clarey, 44, has been banned from driving for 28 months after refusing three blood samples, with cocaine detected, and driving uninsured in County Durham.

Bishop Auckland Hospital treats more patients as outpatient, scan and surgery numbers rise, while plans to move its frailty ward to Darlington face opposition.

Meet the hairdresser working with a North East charity to give cancer patients their confidence back with a bespoke wig service. PETER BARRON reports

Thursday 22 October saw a new generation of Billy Elliot’s take an educational trip to the original North East film locations of the acclaimed 2000 film, including Seaham and Easington Colliery, ahead of Billy Elliot The Musical’s launch in Wearside this November.

Bellway is organising events in County Durham to answer first-time buyers’ questions about a new Government homebuying scheme. Details of the Your First Home scheme – which will offer support to people trying to get onto the property ladder – are set to be announced in the Budget on Wednesday 28 October.

Volunteers at the historic Tanfield Railway have been awarded the Durham County Council Chairman’s Medal, the highest civic honour in County Durham.

Ahead of Halloween, GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS (GWR), the global authority on record-breaking achievements, is celebrating one of Britain's most unusual record holders, as Northumberland's famous Alnwick Poison Garden receives its official certificate for the most species of plant in a poison garden, with an extraordinary 97 toxic and narcotic species.

The Chancellor has suggested that younger workers might not receive the same minimum wage as others before the next election.

In her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury, Rachel Reeves says Brexit has made the UK "poorer, weaker and less secure".

King Charles III will deliver a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Tuesday as he concludes his nine-day Caribbean tour.

Lewis Hamilton takes his first pole position for Ferrari and his first for more than three years at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Kim Hellberg's verdict on Middlesbrough's 3-0 win over Charlton at the Riverside

What Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris said on his future in wake of defeat at Coventry City

How Middlesbrough's players rated in the 3-0 win over Charlton in the Championship at the Riverside

Player Ratings: Coventry City 3 Sunderland 1 - Jack Rudoni is star man at the CBS Arena