Olly Hotchkiss praised his Easington Colliery players for coming through a tough test in their home game with Northallerton ...

Plans have been unveiled to build 25 homes on the site of a former County Durham school. Durham County Council's Housing Delivery Team has filed a planning application for the development on the old ...

Officers seized a selection of weapons and suspected Class A drugs during raids in County Durham. Easington Neighbourhood Policing Team executed Magistrates' Search Warrants at two addresses in ...

In May 1993, a landmark of the County Durham coast closed for good. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium ...

Julie Laidler runs a café that provides cheap hot meals for people on low incomes More needs to be done to help shoppers on low incomes living in "food deserts" far away from supermarkets, academics, ...

Stories recounting memories of life in a well-loved social club in an ex-mining community have been shared as part of a Historic England project. Thirty years after the colliery closed, Easington ...

A County Durham violent thug who repeatedly kicked and punched his fiancée on the night of their engagement has been locked up for the ...

The horrors of the Easington colliery disaster have never been forgotten in the East Durham town. Over 65 years ago 81 miners went to work and never came home after an explosion tore through the Duck ...

A ONCE-thriving town is now a shadow of its former self - with boarded up homes costing a pittance. A family sized three bedroom terraced home is now for sale in Peterlee, County Durham for just ...

A pit disaster in which dozens of miners died is being commemorated on its 70th anniversary. An underground explosion at Easington Colliery, County Durham, claimed the lives of 81 miners and two ...