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A Peterlee arsonist who poured petrol on the front door of his ex-partner’s home before igniting it and walking away has been locked up.

Ten postcodes have been left without power after an unplanned power cut took place in Shildon.

Durham City centre will see road closures and works this weekend ahead of the Christmas light switch on in the city centre.

A County Durham builder is facing losing his home improvement business after he was caught driving a newly bought van without insurance.

A man who had sex with a drunk teenager and got her pregnant has been jailed for five years.

The co-founder of the award-winning bereavement notification service, Settld, has turned her entrepreneurial drive and love of storytelling to fiction, releasing her first crime novel under the pen name Bobby Cussens.

Detailed planning consent has been issued for more than 400 new homes to be built in the first phase of a new neighbourhood in the sought-after West End of Darlington.

After sixteen years and 9 editions, more than 120,000 visitors turned out to see the lights of Lumiere before they went out over Durham, 13-15 November. Lumiere 2025 was produced and curated by Artichoke and commissioned by Durham County Council, with additional support from Arts Council England and, for the first time in 2025, the North-East Combined Authority as regional commissioning partner.

A SCHOOL support group which has just scooped a national award is now planning a magical winter fair, featuring its own charity Christmas single.

Thousands of homes and businesses across Teesdale are set to enjoy faster, more reliable broadband in time for Christmas, as GoFibre completes its UK Government-backed Project Gigabit rollout across the Teesdale region in County Durham.

The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.

About 540 men were due to be sent to Crowborough army training camp and 300 men to Cameron Barracks in Inverness.

It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.

The Conservatives say she was overly gloomy about the public finances as a "smokescreen" to raise tax.

Kim Hellberg has outlined the continued importance of Adi Viveash at Middlesbrough and told of why his assistant David Selini has such a crucial role

Anthony Gordon returns to former club Everton today - but the Newcastle forward is having something of a mixed season

Regis Le Bris says Bournemouth are an ideal model for Sunderland to follow - and has highlighted the importance of knowing when to sell successfully

Kim Hellberg discusses Middlesbrough's attack and the form of striker Tommy Conway

Teessider Bobby Dalton is fighting live on the BBC tonight when he defends his English welterweight title