The Durham Cricket Foundation has held its second annual safeguarding conference, drawing volunteers and safeguarding leads from across the region.

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An incident which saw a cygnet struck and killed by a rowing boat dampened the otherwise cheery mood at Durham Regatta on Saturday. In an apparently inadvertent collision the cygnet, one of several ...

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Viv Watts, chief executive of Hope 4 Kidz, has been awarded an OBE in recognition of nearly 50 years of dedicated fundraising work.

Football continues on both sides of the Atlantic with England Under-21s continuing the defence of their European Championship title and Champions League winners Paris St Germain kicking-off their Club ...

Teesside-based charity Leo’s, which offers mental health and bereavement support to families affected by neonatal complications and baby loss, ...

Attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend the festival and parade.

Adam Scott says winning the US Open would be an “exclamation point” in his career. The Australian rolled back the years at Oakmont to put himself in contention to win a second major, 12 years after ...

Hatton, who is five shots off the pace, joked that the brutal Oakmont course has brought everyone down to his level of mental fragility.

Charli XCX assured Brat Summer was “forever” as she asked fans to keep the movement going. The singer writhed, twisted, pumped and raved across the stage to the delight of the sold-out crowd at LIDO ...

The Treasury has promised hundreds of billions over the next decade for projects such as roads, railways and homes.