We will stay here in Congo and fight. If we do not stay alive here, let’s stay dead here,’ said Congo’s defence minister.

A UK supermarket is trialling the sale of grapes labelled with their flavour or texture as it aims to better understand what ...

Dozens of senior officials have been put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and a sweeping freeze imposed on ...

A college has achieved a 'good' rating in its latest Ofsted inspection. Bishop Auckland College was inspected by Ofsted in December, and the report has now been published.

The success of town centre events and family trails has been praised for attracting thousands more visitors to Darlington.

A County Durham drugs kingpin who went on the run in Eastern Europe has been ordered to pay back more than £40,000 from his ill-gotten gains.

The service will be held in the church where Nolan married her husband of more than two decades, Brian Hudson.

He that even when a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine, ‘you cannot believe that the intentions of Russia will be just to stop and do nothing’.

A teenager lost the tip of his finger after a three-vehicle crash in Easington last night. The incident, which happened just after 6pm outside Burger8, Seaside Lane, involved a silver Ford Mondeo, a ...

Labour has accused the Conservatives of showing “some real brass neck” after a shadow minister said Britain needed a better “work ethic”. Asked whether he thought Britain was missing “a belief in hard ...

There were 4,612 people recorded as sleeping rough in the capital between October and December, up from 4,389 in the same period in 2023.

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...