Quick-thinking control room staff have been honoured for helping to save a woman in danger more than 3,000 miles away in Canada. Call handler Fiona Barker was only on her second shift operating Durham Constabulary’s online Live Chat facility when she received a message from a distressed woman reporting an intruder trying to get into her...

Partners in an ambitious new development which positions Teesside firmly at the heart of the green industrial revolution came together this week to mark the beginning of the build and highlight the importance the project will have on the region and beyond. Located at the expanding Tees Valley Net Zero Innovation Hub, the £13.1m Net Zero...

Twenty arrests, £700,000-worth of drugs seized, weapons recovered and children protected. Just some of the results from a police operation to crackdown on drugs gangs preying on vulnerable adults and children across County Durham and Darlington last week. Officers struck with a string of County Lines operations and executed more than a...

Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen has welcomed a package of national reforms giving PCCs a stronger role to play in tackling reoffending. The second part of the Home Office's PCC Review, announced this week, gives Police and Crime Commissioners the ability to work across the Criminal Justice System to cut crime, drugs misuse and...

The Government’s Exports Minister says he was impressed by one of the North-East region’s biggest employers during a visit to the site. Mike Freer MP, who was appointed Exports Minister in 2021, visited global automotive manufacturer Gestamp on Aycliffe Business Park in Newton Aycliffe. Mr Freer heard from Gestamp’s local and...

Sunderland RCA 2, Newton Aycliffe 1 By Bob Wood There was last gasp heartbreak for Newton Aycliffe as they fall to their second defeat in four days. Following Wednesday night's Durham Challenge Cup semi-final exit at the hands of Crook Town, the Newtonians were back on the road on Saturday visiting Sunderland RCA in the Ebac Northern...

Representatives from Spain experienced some of the delights of County Durham at the weekend. Following a region-to-region tourism partnership being signed by Durham County Council and A Coruña Provincial Council in northwest Spain, last year, partners have come together in person to take part in a pilgrimage along the English Way. The...

Newton Aycliffe-based tech firm Excelpoint has been shortlisted in the Business Product and Innovation Award category in the North East Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Celebrating Small Business Awards. As a non-profit organisation, the FSB offers its members a wide range of vital business services ranging from advice and financial...

County Durham is now a step closer to being named UK City of Culture 2025 and securing the colossal social and economic benefits this would bring. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced the county was one of just four locations from across the UK to be shortlisted for the prestigious title out of the 20 places that...

A group of business leaders are encouraging their neighbouring companies to support a campaign which will help clean up the region’s biggest business park. Seven Aycliffe Business Park Community (ABPC) board members are supporting Durham County Council’s big spring clean, which runs until April 4. They joined the council’s...