This new find, affectionately nicknamed “The Pasty” because the wrapping resembled the famous Cornish pastry, is one of the ...

A metal detectorist who planned to sell a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins has been ordered to pay £103,000 or face being jailed ...

Roger Pilling, 77, from Loveclough, Lancashire, has three months to pay back what prosecutors said were his profits from the ...

Not just gold. A lot of silver, too. A 1,000-year-old hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins and jewels. It must have been a Eureka moment of some magnitude. What they had stumbled on was a Viking’s stash ...

Plans have been announced for a new hangar to be built at a regional airport. Teesside International Airport in Darlington will house the structure to store a fleet of planes and provide office ...

An annual puppet festival's parade has been moved to a new location due to roadworks. The Newcastle Puppetry Festival is to return for the sixth time, but with changes to the route because of work ...

Celebs who play the Utilita Arena in Newcastle now have a new place to party, thanks to a stunning transformation which has turned one of the venue's backstage lounges into a swanky new green room ...

An army veteran who faced homelessness when his house was repossessed says he was “barely managing” his situation until he secured a new home. Retired Royal Artillery Sergeant Terry Coxon ...

With his deft use of archaeology, the tenuous literary sources and numismatic evidence (as early as the first half of the seventh century, Anglo-Saxon coins were being inscribed with the name ...

A former prison governor has been found guilty of having a relationship with a prisoner and accepting a Mercedes from him as a gift. Kerri Pegg, 42 from Up Holland in Lancashire, was convicted of ...

A former Devon and Cornwall police officer has today been given a 20-month prison sentence suspended for two years for leaking sensitive information on multiple cases to her friends and family.