A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy with a chronic lung condition may be forced to leave the school he loves if opencast coal proposals on a village’s fringe are given the go-ahead.Read
HUNDREDS of residents braved wintry weather to crowd into a remote village hall last night and tell planners and UK Coal: We don’t want an opencast mine here.Read
CONSUMER watchdogs assumed people living in a quiet street would welcome a ban on nuisance callers offering to sell them overpriced fish or tarmac their drive.Read
A LONG-serving farrier last night claimed he had been maliciously targeted after industry watchdogs banned him from trading for a month for allowing his son to work on a horse.Read
THE aunt of meningitis sufferer Tilly Lockey and her friend whose bodies were found slumped on a sofa both died as a result of taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest heard.Read
SUSPECTED sex offender Daniel Williamson, from Consett, County Durham, has been on the run for more than a year and has become one of the country’s most wanted criminals. Read
PLANS to regenerate a former steel town were hailed as both “the best thing since the start of the last century” and “nothing more than a charm offensive” yesterday.Read
POLICE are no nearer to discovering the cause of the death of a man and a woman in a terraced house in County Durham following inconclusive post-mortem examinations.Read
POST-MORTEM examinations were taking place yesterday on the bodies of a man and a woman who were found dead in the living room of a house in County Durham.Read
DRUNKEN troublemakers in County Durham will be waking up with more than a bad hangover. From this Friday, police will be slapping offenders in Consett town centre with a hefty £80 fine.Read
GREEN campaigners are preparing to fight plans for a housing estate on a cricket club’s land. Shotley Bridge Cricket Club wants to create a new pitch and pavilion with better facilities by letting a developer build 25 detached homes and 60 flats on its site.Read
A LOWLY car valet posed as a globetrotting millionaire to con love-struck lonely hearts he met on the web. Lee Laidler was separated from his wife and earning a meagre living at a garage in Durham.Read
A YOUNG mother was last night recovering from what police described as a terrifying ordeal at the hands of two masked robbers while at home with her two-year-old daughter.Read