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Plan may lead to loss of HQs

8:00am Friday 27th August 2010

DURHAM Police and the county council could lose their headquarters as part of an economic masterplan being drawn up by the council’s own planning chiefs.

Bloom pioneer impressed

Return visit: Harvey Bailey at Gilesgate Bank

8:00am Friday 27th August 2010

THE man who led Durham to its first Britain in Bloom title has praised the changes in the city since he left nearly 30 years ago.

Countryside invades city for bank holiday family fun day

8:00am Friday 27th August 2010

THE countryside will invade the city for a free bank holiday family fun day.

First point is enough to beat last season’s haul

Mayor Mamie Simmons wishes the team well before kick-off

8:00am Friday 27th August 2010

MANY football managers, looking to the long season ahead, set themselves a target of bettering last year.

Street entertainment

Street entertainer AJ James entertains shoppers in Durham's Millennium Place

1:35pm Thursday 26th August 2010

AN ESCAPOLOGIST gave shoppers a taste of things to come in Durham City.

U-turn pledged over fuel rebates

Concerns raised: Mark Wilkes at Framwellgate Moor Community Centre

8:20am Friday 20th August 2010

HARD-UP schools and community centres may have missed out on fuel rebates totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds.

NHS jobs to go in savings drive

8:20am Friday 20th August 2010

MORE than 500 jobs are to be axed as part of an NHS cost-cutting drive – and hundreds more are under threat.

Hundreds of cadets on training exercise

Maj Gen Richard Barrons promotes Nathan Dobson

8:10am Friday 20th August 2010

FIVE hundred North-East cadets are spending two weeks training on Salisbury Plain.

Quest for finest dancers

Rosie Oliver, 12, of Tin Arts, performs Maypole Anarchy in Durham's Gala Theatre at the launch

8:20am Friday 20th August 2010

A SEARCH has been launched to find the region’s best dancers.

Step back

Close combat: Callum Raine, left, and Mark Fox, of re-enactment group the Vikings (Dunholme Group), clash on Palace Green

8:20am Friday 20th August 2010

DURHAM relived its Norman history with activities at the weekend.



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