Durham OnAir

Durham will host a day of free heritage events on April 18 to mark World Heritage Day, celebrating the city’s historic landmarks and raising awareness of their preservation.

Barratt and David Wilson Homes North East has donated £1,500 via the Barratt Redrow Foundation to Durham Area Disability Leisure Group, supporting accessible activities for disabled children and young people.

A Bedlington mum was left fearing her entire home would “go up in smoke” after wiring for her bathroom spotlights were put in plant pots.

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.

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.

In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

Some migrants are being encouraged to fabricate abuse allegations in order to stay in the UK.

About 22,000 students in England were told they were given loans by mistake and must immediately pay the money back.

A scheme to cut bills for firms that are heavy energy users is being extended to cover an additional 3,000 businesses.

Regis Le Bris is delighted with the way in which Sunderland’s growing squad strength has come to the fore in the last few weeks

Middlesbrough have conceded a flurry of damaging set-piece goals of late

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