The number of empty shops in County Durham is at its highest rate ever, a report has found. Peterlee, Bishop Auckland, and ...

Clare Metcalfe tapped on the window of her shop in Ferryhill, County Durham, to ask a boy to put his rubbish in a nearby bin. But instead of picking it off the pavement and disposing of it ...

Ferryhill, from Peterlee Magistrates’ Court. The council said trading standards officers had visited the shop in October, when they were told there were no illicit tobacco products were in stock ...

A burglar who was caught trying to steal from a care home tuck shop has been jailed. Sharnie Louise Rank was caught red-handed by staff at a care home in Ferryhill last Thursday. She tried to ...