Profile: Gavin Havery

Reporter

Gavin joined the Northern Echo as a senior reporter in 2002 and writes about crime, politics, social issues, and local history. He enjoys reviewing live entertainment and travel writing. Gavin is also an experienced photographer and an award-winning video journalist.

Latest articles from Gavin Havery

The plans would create a new multi-million pound facility

Plans to replace nursery and primary school with new £13 million facility

COUNCILLORS are to discuss plans to merge a school and nursery so that pupils can attend a new multimillion-pound facility.

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The News and Booze store in Catherine Terrace, New Kyo

Couple lose their licences for Sunday booze morning sales

A COUPLE who ran an off-licence have been fined and lost their personal licences after admitting selling alcohol to customers outside permitted hours.

High spirits in Durham city centre with, from left, Austin Seck, Joshua Dexter and Kenneth Ong, at The Bishops’ Mill. Pictures: GAVIN HAVERY

Free pints in a sunny beer garden: 'This is the best day of my life’

EMERGING from the cold concrete gloom of a multi-storey car park, a bitterly long winter and a three months of lockdown, the door opened to reveal the sights, smells and sounds of a sunny beer garden.

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A study has revealed the need for schools meals int he region

Youth worker claims “more support to families on low incomes is needed" as the "worrying" extent of the need for free school meals is revealed

MORE than 5,000 children in the North-East and North Yorkshire became eligible for free school meals during the coronavirus pandemic, figures show.

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David Jackson, left, was well known in Consett as a teacher and a bandmaster

Much-loved teacher and bandmaster was 'one of the greatest human beings you could ever wish to meet'

HEARTFELT tributes have been paid following the death of a primary school teacher and bandmaster.

Coronavirus latest: What you need to know this morning, Tuesday, April 6

SHOPS hairdressers and pub beer gardens will reopen from April 12 in England but people must not be complacent about the risks still posed by coronavirus, Boris Johnson said. Confirming the next step on the road map out of lockdown, the Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference he was looking forward to a pint of beer in a week’s time. But he said the difficulties facing countries in Europe illustrated the risks still posed by the pandemic.

Grandma of teenager tormented by mam's murder left 'heartbroken' by train death

A HEARTBROKEN grandmother who raised her daughter’s sons after they witnessed her murder has told of her agony following the tragic death of the younger boy after he was hit by a train.

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