We've dug in The Northern Echo's archives to take a look back at how Spennymoor town centre has changed through the years.

Here are the latest planning applications validated by Durham County Council over the past week, featuring proposals for new homes, tree ...

A County Durham sex offender who threatened his victim and other witnesses with violence has been jailed for 13 years.

MP Lola McEvoy completed a tour of the town's primary schools, personally handing out Golden Tickets to every child.

THERE'S little left of Leasingthorne these days. Its colliery's heyday was in the 1930s, when it employed more than 1,500 men and boys, but when ...