The news comes as LINK has also today confirmed its 200th banking hub recommendation in Penistone, South Yorkshire. Peterlee and Houghton-le-Spring are the seventh and eighth hubs to be ...

Durham County Council was tipped off to the 25-year-old, of School Road, East Rainton, Houghton-le-Spring, and found he’d repeatedly been selling to one scrap metal firm in June and July.

Houghton-le-Spring is town which has its recorded origins in Norman times. Historically in County Durham, it is now part of the City of Sunderland. The villages and towns of Newbottle, Fencehouses ...