A County Durham drugs kingpin who went on the run in Eastern Europe has been ordered to pay back more than £40,000 from his ill-gotten gains.

Over the next five years, the company will invest £2.6 billion in County Durham, the wider North East, Teesside and North Yorkshire.

Barlaser, meanwhile, is well-known by Rams boss Paul Warne, who managed him at Rotherham United. Always a huige fan of the ...

New Ministry of Justice figures show that Teesside is one of the top areas with the most sex offenders relative to population ...