The Latest Breaking News from Durham

Organiser of event for which families were offered discounted tickets says match ‘escalated’

Durham Police has launched an investigation after wrestlers Ronnie Thatcher and Blizzard from CCW fought in a "death match" in front of families at the New Seaham Conservatives Club

The facelift which is part of a wider £2m investment plan, will see the Honest Lawyer Hotel upgraded substantially to help elevate its already popular status

Research Excellence Framework (REF) results show combined, Northumbria, Newcastle and Durham form a northern research powerhouse

Keir Starmer vowed he would resign if he was fined by Durham Police over an event last April where he was pictured drinking a beer and eating a takeaway curry with campaign staff ahead of the Hartlepool by-election

Labour leader Keir Starmer insists that he did not break lockdown rules after being photographed drinking a beer and eating food during the local election campaign of April 2021. So confident is he that he didn’t, he has pledged to step down if he is fined by the police over…

For a man whose nickname is No Drama Starmer, the leader of the Opposition properly kicked off this week with his promise to resign if given a fixed penalty notice for having a beer and a curry during a campaign visit to Durham last year. His team are confident that…

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has gambled his leadership on being cleared by Durham Police in an investigation of allegations he broke Covid lockdown rules while having a curry. Starmer has said he is "absolutely clear" no rules were broken

The route will cruise through Teesside and Country Durham on July 14, before moving to Tyneside, Newcastle and Gateshead the next day

Dean Watts, 30, was given a community order after pleading guilty to the offences

Queues of people waited outside Liverpool passport office as the government reported an unprecedented demand in applications for passports since the pandemic