A Call The Midwife film and prequel TV series set during the Second World War are being made, the BBC has announced. It comes as the hit drama about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End ...

A Guisborough e-bike rider who ploughed into a man as he stepped out of a bus shelter leaving him with serious injuries has been locked up.

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson’s latest parole hearing will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided. The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who ...

Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, won the job with a promise to confront increased aggression shown by President ...

Richard Satchwell told Irish police he had been injured by Tina Satchwell multiple times throughout their marriage, a court has heard.

By January 1941, the £5,000 figure was reached and the Ministry of Aircraft Production named a Mark Vb Spitfire, number W3320, the 'Darlington Spitfire'. It was attached to 92 Squadron, the country's ...

An award-winning filmmaker, better known for his short horror films, is set to release his second documentary on a County Durham non-league ...

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a Britain’s Got Talent finalist accused of raping two women. Andrew Johnston, 30, competed as a singer on the television programme in 2008, ...

A child sex offender has been jailed for 48 months after being found guilty of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Plans to turn a Saltburn butcher’s shop into a micro pub are to be considered by Redcar and Cleveland Council.

A woman accused of having an illegal abortion is “still utterly traumatised” by her experience, her barrister has said as she told jurors the facts of her client’s case “are a tragedy but they are not ...

Neighbourhood Wardens have launched an investigation after a significant fly-tipping incident was discovered on Knitsley Lane, Consett.