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Chief Constable Rachel Bacon said she would place a greater emphasis on neighbourhood policing as part of a renewed focus on connecting with communities in County Durham and Darlington.
She started her role by visiting the beat team in Crook on Friday…
A Freedom of Information request by personal breathalyser firm AlcoSense shows that in December last year, Durham Police stopped 760 motorists suspected of drink driving.
That compares with 289 breath tests in an average month.
The number of motorists …
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Only Albert Hudson, 24, remained at the rear of the shop. He’d decided to stay on and finish painting the buffer beam on a loco he was working on.
The 1861 engine shed at Hopetown, Darlington
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Mark Newton received a 14-year and three-month sentence, with five years’ extended licence period, after being branded as, “posing a high risk of causing serious harm to women”, by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court, in March, 2021, for subjecting two vi…
A woman in her 80s has died following a crash in County Durham[1].
The collision took place just before 8.40am on the B6279 Staindrop Road, between Darlington[2] and Summerhouse, on Thursday. Durham police say it involved a Mercedes A class and a BMW 1…
According to the data, acquired through a Freedom of Information request by motor insurance broker Adrian Flux, it takes an average of 13.1 weeks after booking a test to take it in the region – over 10 weeks shorter than some others.
It’s the only regi…
A woman aged in her 80s has died in a car crash.It happened just before 08:40 GMT on Thursday, on the B6279 Staindrop Road between Darlington and Summerhouse, Durham.The woman, a passenger in a Mercedes, died at the scene, while its driver was taken to…
The incident happened just before 8.40am on the B6279, Staindrop Road between Darlington and Summerhouse.
It involved a Mercedes A class and a BMW 1 series which were travelling in opposite directions.
The passenger of the Mercedes – a woman in her 80s…
Police were called to the B6279, between Thornton Hall Gardens and Summerhouse, just after 8.40am.
It is understood there was a collision between a Mercedes and a BMW.
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