The council says the increase is due to financial pressures.

Engineering consultants are appointed to carry out a feasibility study and specialist design work.

Darlington MP Lola McEvoy has pledged to restore the train and improve the site.

The Newcastle United defender collects the Freedom of Northumberland after his Carabao Cup goal.

Use of force on prisoners has also risen sharply at the jail in Stockton, inspectors say.

Northumbria Police sends a bomb disposal unit to the scene in Newcastle.

The vote will replace a councillor who stood down after failing to declare he was a council worker.

Twelve Teesside mums take part in a campaign to encourage higher breastfeeding rates in the area.

A fibreglass effigy has appeared in place of a pony in Ryhope which was cut down to its hooves.

It comes after union members backed previous walkouts over the university's plans to cut its budget.

BBC Sport looks at what clubs need on the Premiership's final day as five teams remain in the hunt for three play-off spots.

South Tyneside opposition councillors have criticised the decision to demolish Hebburn's Durham Court.

More than a dozen fruit trees planted by a youth group are taken from a site at Newbiggin Hall.

Cleveland's Police and Crime Commissioner says some high value claims are still being processed.

One of Durham Wasps' first players is remembered amid efforts to commemorate a city ice rink.