An ancient gold ring, dug up by a metal detectorist in a County Durham field, has been ruled treasure at court.

A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in Darlington during the summer months. Mohammed Mohammed made the admission during a short hearing at Teesside Crown Court and was warned that ...

A Stockton pervert caught with sickening child abuse images on children as young as four months old has walked free from court.

A driver involved in a motorway crash in which five people, including two children, died had been travelling on the wrong side of the road at the time, it has emerged. Cumbria Police said officers ...

It comes as prosecutors review new evidence to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their ...

Baroness Parminter said the move to electric vehicles is ‘one of the most important actions if we are going to get to net zero’.

The earthquake, with a magnitude 5.9, struck the town of Kale in the province of Malatya at 10.46am, according to the government-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, known as the AFAD.

Israeli air strikes have pounded areas across Lebanon, killing at least 25 people, officials said. The deaths include more than a dozen people in a southern town where Israeli bombardments in previous ...

Steve Darling said the golden retriever is ‘living the true life of a parliamentarian’ because she enjoys a bit of shut-eye in the chamber.

One of the UK’s most wanted men has been brought back to Wales after spending four years on the run. Calvin Parris, 34, from Cardiff, was detained by Portuguese police near the town Boliqueime in the ...

Experts have predicted that fresh inflation figures are likely to result in an almost-£500 million increase in business rate payments by firms.

Hugo Morris, 18, Jevon Hirst, 16, Harvey Owen and Wilf Fitchett, both 17, died in the road accident in North Wales last November.