Barnard Castle, England News

AN investigation has been launched after a inmate died in a North-East prison on Monday afternoon.

A chef from Garstang has been nominated in the Hi-Life Dining Awards' Best Chef category.

A PROFESSIONAL criminal involved in a sophisticated raid on a petrol station has failed to win a cut in his jail term.

Durham County Council has been accused of wasting money, after it was revealed that it spent 50,000 on eight decorated Christmas trees.

The 16-year-old, who is the grandson of a former Air Marshal, is hoping his own dreams will take flight after gaining a distinction with the RAF cadets.

A DISUSED former car showroom will be given a new lease of as an artists' studio if plans are approved.

AN 18TH CENTURY building in a setting made famous by Turner is to be saved from ruin.

HOPES are high that a A 300m pharmaceutical factory will be built in a County Durham market town, bringing hundreds of jobs to the area.

A COUNCILLOR has lambasted ambulance cover in Teesdale which left a footballer suffering in agony with a broken leg for at least half an hour before paramedics arrived.

Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office mantra "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", with a clear announcement that DNA and fingerprinting could harm an individuala TMs career prospects a ' even if they are otherwise totally innocent.

GOOD growing conditions have produced a turbo-charged crop of Christmas trees in Dalby Forest.

Comment Durham police are finding out the hard way about the power of the internet to mislead, distort and amplify, as a relatively measured warning about a legal high gallops towards Snopesian urban myth status as the tale of a drug that makes you rip your bollocks off with your bare hands.

MAKER has swapped Peckham, in South London, for the Durham Dales to set up a video production company.

A NORTH Yorkshire deer farm has become the first in the country to invest in a Roundhouse livestock building.

A MAN accused of being part of a gang which stamped and kicked a drinking friend to death has denied he confessed the killing to his mother and sister.

I'VE always been a country lover and there's nothing better than going for a drive in the hills followed by a hearty Sunday lunch.

GLAMOROUS 1930s evening dresses have come to a North East museum after a temporary export ban prevented their sale abroad.

POLICE in County Durham are concerned about the increasing use of a potentially lethal legal drug.

POLICE are warning that someone could die over the coming weeks as the increasing use of a so-called a oelegala drug spreads throughout the region.

SOME of the regiona s most innovative entrepreneurs have shared the secrets of their international success at an event in the North- East.