Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

INSANE: Houghton | Rare Historical Photos

Houghton Festival 2026 review: This phone-free festival is an artistic, musical nirvana

5/5 Come for the 24-hour electronic music programming. Stay for the sculptures, secret stages and mandatory three-day digital detox

Evening Standard

Houghton festival review: the UK festival season’s best-kept secret keeps getting better and better

With a mystical setting, phoneless crowds and a loyalist lineup, what more could anyone want from a music festival?

Evening Standard

Man appears in court charged with murder of six-month-old baby

Archie Woodbridge died in hospital after reports of concern for the welfare of a baby at an address in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire.

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

London clubbing luminary Hannah Holland curates your Friday Night Playlist

DJ Hannah Holland is off to the trendy 24-hour techno festival beloved by Londoners this weekend. Ahead of Houghton 2024, here’s what she’s planning on playing

Evening Standard

Who is Bridget Phillipson? Labour's shadow education secretary promises 3,000 more nurseries

Ms Phillipson’s political career started in 2010 as MP for Houghton and Sunderland South

Evening Standard

Kate Middleton makes rogue incognito appearance at music festival

The Princess of Wales surprised fans when it was revealed that she had attended Houghton music festival in Norfolk

Woman & Home

Spicy margs, £700 tips and 24-hour techno: the curious case of Kate’s attendance at Houghton Festival

The Princess of Wales let her hair down this weekend and attended a rave in Norfolk. Here’s what she got up to...

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Craig Richards on Houghton: The festival bringing the sounds of London to the fields

Craig Richards takes the underground sounds of the capital to the greenery of Norfolk for a four-day expedition

Evening Standard

Investigation after girl 'grabbed by the throat' by security guard during under 18s event at Rainton Arena

The incident reportedly occurred at Rainton Arena in Houghton le Spring on Friday night

Chronicle Live

Appeal to find missing Sunderland man as police become 'increasingly concerned' for welfare

Jason Cross, 34, was last seen the South View Terrace area of Houghton-le-Spring

Chronicle Live

Moment sonic boom 'like a gas explosion' shakes homes as RAF Typhoon aircraft scrambled

Aarondeep Mann heard the sonic boom while emptying the boot of his car in Houghton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, and said his first thought was it may have been a gas explosion

Daily Mirror

Houghton mum and young son left frightened after burglars smashed into their home

Paul Young, of Houghton-le-Spring, has now joined Dylan Newall behind bars after they broke into the woman's home while she was out walking the dog

Chronicle Live

Bridget Phillipson MP meets Sunderland apprentices at Houghton-le-Spring housing development

The MP for Houghton and Sunderland South was given a tour of Persimmon’s Herrington Grange development

Chronicle Live

Police investigation launched after three masked raiders carry out robbery at Houghton-le-Spring shop

Three men entered Burnside Stores on Woodburn Drive on Monday, January 2 and threatened a member of staff

Chronicle Live

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chronicle Live

Houghton teenager warned exercising could be deadly as ribcage grows inwards

Jacob Brown has a condition where his ribcage is growing inwards and has caused the sternum to sink into his chest

Chronicle Live

Houghton Feast returns next month with tributes to Queen Elizabeth II

North East residents look forward to the week-long festivities every year - with plenty to do and see when it lands in the region

Chronicle Live

Police launch urgent search for missing Houghton man Eddy Loughlin

The missing man was last seen at an address on School Road, East Rainton

Chronicle Live

Sunderland mum found out she was pregnant weeks after burying partner killed by danger driver

Carol King gave birth to Richie Gray Jordan's second baby after he was killed in a horror crash on the A19 near Houghton-le-Spring

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chronicle Live

Widow violently attacked in shocking Houghton street robbery by convicted child abductor

Thomas Smith, of Hetton-le-Hole, has been branded dangerous and jailed after attacking the pensioner in Houghton-le-Spring

Chronicle Live

North West Durham MP Richard Holden accused of wasting police time over Keir Starmer lockdown breach claim

Houghton and Sunderland South MP and Labour frontbencher Bridget Phillipson says Richard Holden was wrong to ask Durham Police to re-examine "this nonsense"

Chronicle Live

New and super exclusive 'micro-club' TROPI's to open in former Houghton le Spring pharmacy this week

The business venture at the hands of Michael Donkin is the first of its kind, hoping to bring something a little different and more exciting to Houghton le Spring.

Chronicle Live

Tiny spot of blood brings down Houghton burglar after leaving £5,000 worth of destruction

Grant Eggleston from Houghton accidentally cut himself as he broke into a home in Wearside

People

the Princess of Wales

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.