Train passengers heading from Hartlepool to London are urged to check their journeys ahead of two consecutive weekends of engineering work.

A shop is to remain closed for a further three months after trading standards bosses successfully applied for a court order to be extended.

A former social club is proposed to be demolished as part of plans to support Hartlepool’s film and TV industry sector.

Hartlepool and East Durham have endured a freezing week as even daytime temperatures struggled to rise above zero degrees ...