Stockton-on-Tees

Some 2,300 rubber ducks are raced to raise money an annual fundraising race.

Norton Road in Stockton-on-Tees is expected to be closed for several days, Northumbrian Water says.

Proposals to address a deficit at Cleveland Fire Brigade include reducing a station's staffed hours.

Crowds at watch parties across the North East and Cumbria gather for the "once-in-a-lifetime" event.

Police say Jesse Reaney, Layton Lightfoot and Charlie Wilcock wanted to "assert their authority".

A developer says the 24-acre site near Stockton has been agricultural fields since 1856.

Mark Pearce is jailed for four years in his part of a kidnapping of a man from outside his home.