North East Sport

Eddie Howe is hoping Bruno Guimaraes will be able to make his Newcastle United comeback in tomorrow’s home game with Bournemouth

Club legend Nicky Featherstone will step down from his role as First Team Manager at the conclusion of the 2025/26 season.

Eddie Howe has conceded Newcastle United are in for a summer of major change, with a number of the club’s leading lights potentially set to leave

Eddie Howe insists he is ready to “fight harder than ever before” to turn things around at Newcastle United.

Would qualifying for Europe be good or bad for Sunderland - and what would playing in Europa League or Conference League mean for Black Cats?

Regis Le Bris is delighted with Brian Brobbey’s development during his first season as a Sunderland player – but has challenged him to score more goals

Kim Hellberg outlines his determination to get Middlesbrough back on track in the Championship promotion race

Middlesbrough are looking to get back on track in the Championship promotion race when they face rivals Ipswich at Portman Road on Sunday

What are the key transfer decisions facing Newcastle United - and what is likely to happen Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali & Tino Livramento?

Regis Le Bris is delighted with the way in which Sunderland’s growing squad strength has come to the fore in the last few weeks

Middlesbrough have conceded a flurry of damaging set-piece goals of late

Yarm teenager Gracie Mitchell will be hoping to hit top gear this weekend when she competes in her first race in the Porsche Sprint Challenge

Newcastle United chiefs are adamant the sudden availability of Andoni Iraola will not influence their thinking over the future of Eddie Howe

Where Middlesbrough stand in the Championship promotion race after Ipswich and Southampton's midweek results

Newcastle United greats Andrew Cole and Tony Cunningham will return to St James’s Park this weekend to launch the ’First Black XI’ exhibition

Kim Hellberg remains pleased with Tommy Conway's Middlesbrough contribution and displays, despite the forward's struggle for goals

Regis Le Bris is happy with Habib Diarra’s progress at Sunderland, and saw plenty of positive signs in the midfielder’s performance against Spurs

A POPULAR student who is 'missed every day' will be remembered this weekend at a charity rugby match to mark ten years since his death.

A County Durham based property, housebuilding and mining firm is marking another year as principal partner of Durham Cricket.

Newcastle's next opponents Bournemouth face an uncertain end to the Premier League season after it was announced manager Andoni Iraola will leave this summer.

Newcastle United have completed the signing of highly-rated Ecuadorian teenager Johan Martinez

This is how Middlesbrough get back on track in the Championship promotion race

Sunderland could face a summer battle to hold on to Brian Brobbey, with Bayern Munich having been strongly linked with a move for the striker

What are the key promotion and relegation issues that are still to be decided on the North-East non-league scene?

Robin Roefs says Sunderland’s players will be doing everything they can to secure European qualification

Kim Hellberg admits his Middlesbrough players’ confidence levels have taken a battering from their six-game winless run

Tennis World & Middlesbrough Padel Club has been shortlisted for ‘Club of the Year’ at the 2026 LTA Awards, marking its first national nomination in its 40-year history.

Yarm teenager, Gracie Mitchell, is set to race in the Porsche Series for the first time, and it will be broadcast on ITV.

Robin Roefs insists he wants to remain part of Sunderland’s “amazing” journey despite recent speculation linking him with a move to Chelsea

Eddie Howe's future and Ross Wilson's role - the key issues facing Newcastle United this summer

Sunderland have issued a strongly-worded statement after Brian Brobbey was subjected to online racial abuse in the wake of the win over Tottenham

Regis Le Bris has been delighted with the way in which his Sunderland players have successfully reset their sights in the last few weeks

Kim Hellberg admits Jeremy Sarmiento has had a "difficult" start to life at Middlesbrough, but says Boro's struggle for wins and form is "not a one-player problem"

A football fan is accused of killing a man with one punch outside a convenience store in London the night before a match, a court heard.

New family-run angling/fishing shop Cast and Catch has opened on Whessoe Road in Darlington.

Callum Parkinson claimed three key wickets as Durham thrashed Gloucestershire by an innings and 225 runs in the County Championship

Eddie Howe's verdict on Newcastle's 2-1 Premier League defeat at Crystal Palace

Regis Le Bris was delighted Sunderland’s victory over Tottenham – but still sees room for attacking improvement in the final six games of the season

Player Ratings: Sunderland 1 Tottenham 0 - Omar Alderete is star man as Black Cats win at Stadium of Light

Pressure mounts on Eddie Howe after Newcastle lost 2-1 at Crystal Palace in the Premier League

Nordi Mukiele's deflected winner secured Sunderland a 1-0 win over Tottenham at the Stadium of Light

Regis Le Bris has made four changes to his Sunderland starting line-up for this afternoon's home game against Tottenham

Analysis of Middlesbrough's 1-0 home defeat to Portsmouth in the Championship

Darlington manager Steve Watson admitted his side's promotion destiny is now out of their hands after a shattering 3-2 home defeat by Marine

Portsmouth boss John Mousinho admitted he had to go against his beliefs in setting his side up to "frustrate" Middlesbrough at the Riverside on Saturday

Sunderland have started the process of replacing the outgoing Robin Nicholls and say the task for the next academy manager is to continue "raising the ceiling" at what the Black Cats say is "a moment of genuine evolution"

Eddie Howe says Newcastle United need to "earn back the trust, respect and love" from supporters on the back of the painful Sunderland defeat and disappointing Premier League campaign

Kim Hellberg provided a Middlesbrough injury update after the Portsmouth defeat and ahead of the trip to Ipswich

Hundreds of cyclists and spectators flocked to the North East today as the elite East Cleveland Classic competition returned for another year.

Darlington fans were left deflated and demoralised by a dismal defeat today.