Local News
- Council tax plan could 'reduce' help for poorest July 5, 2025To save money, Durham County Council is proposing changes to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme.
- 'Dad was killed by a driver using her phone' July 5, 2025The family of cyclist Ian Morris say sentences for drivers caught using phones should be longer.
- Unsafe train station bridge to be replaced July 5, 2025The existing footbridge at South Bank station is currently closed and will be torn down.
- Has Labour's first year been good for the North East? July 5, 2025North East & Cumbria political editor Richard Moss looks back at Labour's first year in power.
- Durham make record total while Salt & Buttler star - T20 Blast round-up July 4, 2025Durham make record total to go top of the T20 Blast North Group with victory over Nottinghamshire, while Lancashire beat Northants.
- Man, 19, killed in A1 crash, made family 'so proud' July 4, 2025Tributes are paid to Dylan Martin Thomas, who died in the early morning crash on Wednesday.
- Women's T20 Blast: Durham claim win over Somerset July 4, 2025Scotland captain Kathryn Bryce takes 4-13 as The Blaze beat Hampshire Hawks on Ellyse Perry's debut.
- Rapist covered woman's mouth to silence her pleas July 4, 2025Thomas English ignored a woman's pleas to stop part-way through consensual sex, a court is told.
- Victims 'haunted' by child molester's attacks July 4, 2025Ian Tate, 48, is jailed for 16 years for abusing two girls almost a decade apart.
- No date for restarting baby deliveries at hospital July 4, 2025A maternity suite at the University Hospital of Hartlepool is suffering staff shortages.