Durham County, England News

A THUG has been jailed after he left a man with what were described as horrific injuries when he was stabbed in the head and neck.

A MAN who clubbed together with friends so they could cut the cost of their cocaine use has been jailed.

TWO people have been killed in separate crashes on the region's roads. A 30-year-old woman died after her VW Golf collided with a white panel van near Coxhoe, County Durham, at about 10am today.

A paedophile who downloaded child porn on his mobile phone, weeks after being released from a Teesside prison, has been jailed indefinitely.

FRAUDSTER Anne Darwin has agreed to repay nearly 600,000 from the faked death scam she carried out with her husband, a court heard yesterday.

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A DISTRAUGHT widow said she will not succumb to thieves who stole 14 cherished gnomes from her garden.

John Darwin, who faked death at sea, and wife Anne to meet bill after vigorous pursuit by Crown Prosecution Service Anne and John Darwin kept the plot from their children.

THE family of a man brutally stabbed to death have welcomed moves to see minimum jail terms for knife killers increased to up to 25 years a ' but insist the punishment should be even stronger.

A MOTORCYCLIST killed after ploughing into a van which was turning on a busy County Durham road has been named.

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A BODY recovered from the River Wear in Durham was that of missing pensioner Billy Jones, police have confirmed.

A FAMILY business is defiant an arson attack will not leave its customers in the lurch.

A THUG who attacked a former neighbour for daring to speak out against his family's anti-social antics has been locked up.

POLICE have welcomed the 12-year jail sentence given to a depraved pensioner who had sex with a troubled young girl hundreds of times.

MORE than 200 painted ladies have landed a green award for a school. Pupils at Leadgate County Infant and Nursery School near Consett in County Durham turned sterile land in their grounds into a garden designed to attract butterflies and bees.

A man faces a life sentence after admitting the brutal murder of a popular mum-of-three. Lisa Marie Leckenby died after being attacked by ex-partner Marcel George Allan, 42, formerly of Hendon, Sunderland.

A DEALER who was caught peddling hard drugs just a month after police raided his home has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

Legendary football manager Sir Bobby Robson is to be honoured with a special medal commissioned by the Royal Mint.

A MAN left a teenager with a loose tooth and black eye after starting a fight in the street.