We will stay here in Congo and fight. If we do not stay alive here, let’s stay dead here,’ said Congo’s defence minister.

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...

Manchester City will face Real Madrid in the Champions League knock-out round play-off. Having beaten Club Brugge 3-1 in their final league phase game to make it through to the next stage at the last ...

Dozens of senior officials have been put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and a sweeping freeze imposed on ...

A college has achieved a 'good' rating in its latest Ofsted inspection. Bishop Auckland College was inspected by Ofsted in December, and the report has now been published.

There were 4,612 people recorded as sleeping rough in the capital between October and December, up from 4,389 in the same period in 2023.

The success of town centre events and family trails has been praised for attracting thousands more visitors to Darlington.

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

A County Durham drugs kingpin who went on the run in Eastern Europe has been ordered to pay back more than £40,000 from his ill-gotten gains.

The service will be held in the church where Nolan married her husband of more than two decades, Brian Hudson.

The 57-year-old was found unconscious with a serious head injury near Rectory Lane in Brantham, Suffolk, on July 24 2024, dying four days later.

He that even when a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine, ‘you cannot believe that the intentions of Russia will be just to stop and do nothing’.