Durham OnAir

A man has been jailed for repeatedly pestering his own grandmother for money for drugs, then resorting to violence and damaging her home if she refused.

A Darlington woman accused of racially aggravated harassment is to be assessed as to her fitness to plead, prior to the charge being put to her.

The impact of a fund designed to increase business growth in County Durham has been praised for attracting £40 million of investment.

Willow Burn Hospice in Lanchester, County Durham, has raised £22,000 through a gala fundraiser to support its end-of-life and palliative care services.

North East MPs have warned that proposed protest powers in the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill could be open to abuse by a future ‘hard-right’ government.

A man from the North East is walking 62 miles from Saltburn Pier to Roker Pier, aiming to complete the journey within 62 hours, finishing at 20:20 on April 9th, which would have been his dad’s 62nd birthday.

Durham Cricket has signed up County Durham-based property and mining firm the Banks Group as its new principal partner in an agreement which also includes the naming rights to the Riverside ground.

Tanfield Railway, the world’s oldest railway, is delighted to welcome Furness 20, Britain’s oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive, as part of its Tanfield300 Great North Festival of Railways this May.

Briana Corrigan of The Beautiful South has returned to the stage after a 10-year hiatus with 3 hugely successful and largely sold-out tours throughout the UK and IRELAND already completed, a new album in the pipeline and a series of brand-new gigs lined up for Spring 2025.

It comes after the BBC revealed how law firms and advisers are helping migrants pretend to be gay to stay in the UK.

The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

The chancellor's criticism follows a report that the conflict will hit the UK harder than other big economies.

The woman and her unborn child died in a crash with a police car in Kidbrooke, south-east London.

Newcastle United chiefs are adamant the sudden availability of Andoni Iraola will not influence their thinking over the future of Eddie Howe

Where Middlesbrough stand in the Championship promotion race after Ipswich and Southampton's midweek results

Newcastle United greats Andrew Cole and Tony Cunningham will return to St James’s Park this weekend to launch the ’First Black XI’ exhibition

Kim Hellberg remains pleased with Tommy Conway's Middlesbrough contribution and displays, despite the forward's struggle for goals