Durham OnAir

Manchester Arena plotter Hashem Abedi is due to appear in court charged with three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured at a maximum security prison.

The Department for Education (DfE) has said it will “carefully consider” a request to meet with the family of murdered County Durham toddler Maya Chappell.

Gemma Chappell says that earlier intervention, more effective safeguarding, and proper communication between agencies could have made the difference.

A great grandmother from County Durham, thought to be the oldest female freeman in the UK, has died aged 103.

A teenage first-time offender has pledged the courts won’t be seeing him again, after a drunken outburst both inside and outside a Darlington town centre pub.

A pioneering Darlington children’s theatre is improving new outdoor play opportunities for local families with the help of a four-figure grant from a regional employer. Theatre Hullabaloo is renovating an underused outside area at its Borough Road premises into a play space which will include new equipment and resources to encourage imaginative play.

New College Durham has been awarded Advanced Accreditation in the North East Combined Authority’s SHINE Awards – the highest level of recognition for workplace excellence.

From an award winning company comes a new drama; entertaining, dark, humorous and timely and visiting Spennymoor & Darlington in October.

Planning approvals for new homes were at their lowest on record during Labour’s first year in office, figures show

The man was removed on Thursday under the "one in, one out" agreement and has arrived in Paris.

The Bank of England governor warns "we're not out of the woods yet" in terms of rising inflation.

MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.

Rob Edwards has been delighted with Morgan Whittaker's response to events at Preston last weekend when he was cheered off the pitch

Dael Fry will not be available for Middlesbrough's home game with West Brom - but the defender’s calf injury is not a particularly serious one.

The latest on Bologna's Jhon Lucumi, who was a leading transfer target for Sunderland in the summer

Former Sunderland coach Mike Dodds has been sacked by Wycombe Wanderers.