A desperate drug addict failed in two attempted armed robberies at convenience stores in Consett, leaving empty-handed from both, a court heard.
A banned driver from County Durham has been jailed over a police chase while at the wheel of a van heading in the wrong direction on a motorway in West Yorkshire.
Specially trained sniffer dogs have helped to seize a haul of illegal tobacco products with a street value of £14,000 from retail premises across a city.
A serving police officer is to lose his cherished job with the force through his “irrational” behaviour with his partner as their seven-month relationship came to an end.
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A man who was being arrested by police attacked one of the officers using a key to inflict a facial injury, a court heard.
One of the two men accused of felling the Sycamore Gap tree was excused attendance at a pre-trial hearing today (Mon Nov 11) due to illness.
A three-strikes burglar broke into the home of a dementia-suffering octogenarian only two weeks after being released from prison on licence.
A Durham man who went equipped with a ‘riot kit’ to two separate incidents of the recent disorder across the UK has been convicted at Newcastle Crown Court today.
A drug driver who crashed his Land Rover while under the influence of cocaine has failed to have his resulting prison sentence suspended.
