Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, won the job with a promise to confront increased aggression shown by President ...

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson’s latest parole hearing will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided. The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who ...

By January 1941, the £5,000 figure was reached and the Ministry of Aircraft Production named a Mark Vb Spitfire, number W3320, the 'Darlington Spitfire'. It was attached to 92 Squadron, the country's ...

An award-winning filmmaker, better known for his short horror films, is set to release his second documentary on a County Durham non-league ...

Richard Satchwell told Irish police he had been injured by Tina Satchwell multiple times throughout their marriage, a court has heard.

A child sex offender has been jailed for 48 months after being found guilty of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Plans to turn a Saltburn butcher’s shop into a micro pub are to be considered by Redcar and Cleveland Council.

Paris St Germain boss Luis Enrique has confirmed his star man Ousmane Dembele is fit for the second leg of their Champions League semi-final against Arsenal. Enrique had been sweating over the ...

Friedrich Merz has finally succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round. The conservative ...

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a Britain’s Got Talent finalist accused of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, competed as a singer on the television programme in 2008, ...

A five-storey student accommodation block was evacuated after a flat set ablaze. Emergency services were called to The Glassworks student accommodation on Coquet Street, in Newcastle, on Sunday ...

Plans to build a house in a Darlington village have been submitted to the council. The proposal, submitted by Jonathan Saddington of Saddington Taylor Planning on behalf of Dr A and Mrs C Marshall, ...