A community project at Woodhouse Close allotments is opening its gates to the public for the first time.

Durham Constabulary are to use drones to fight crime, consultation on the County Durham Plan gets underway next week and Lumiere is set to return to Durham in November 2017.

A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty at High Force,

Pro-European MP Helen Goodman will face UKIP councillor John Tennant in a Brexit debate being held at Bishop Auckland College today and a mysterious red English postbox has been popping up around Durham City Centre.

A number of North East business leaders and entrepreneurs have been awarded honours as part of the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations, and people across the North East are being asked to go on a hunt with a difference – to find sewage pumping stations!

'Police Interceptors' were among the attractions at the 'Dreamcar' event staged near Darlington on Sunday, a customer contact firm will create 1,200 jobs in County Durham and the fire service ‘past and present’ will be celebrated in a free public open day at Bowburn on Saturday 18 June.

Julie and David tell us about the open day and David talks about his involvement and his recent award

Andrew Walker keeps us up to date with what is going on within the AAP and the community

Natasha Young who won the Young Carers Award at the Bishop Auckland Town Council Youth Awards spoke about the award and what it means to her.

Jenni Wood from Durham County Carers Support talks about support given to carers and their families

Gavin Thurgood tells us about the wellbeing services offered by Ingeus to loacal unemployed people