How Pride in Place funding is helping make #Darlington more accessible to those with mobility issues. Great to see this coverage by @TheNorthernEcho thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2…

Heartbreaking to see Arapaho Gold beaten by a pixel in the opener on Champions' Day at @Ascot but so proud of the horse. There will be more big days ahead.

President Trump is a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and hardworking man. I wish more Americans appreciated him. No one will ever make America great the way he has and continues to. It was an honor to work for him.

Great day for @CierenFallonJr3 with a 210-1 treble, plus Sergeant Mayer does it again for @RacingNigel & @FMcmanoman. Wrap-up report and pictures from today's 8-race card. redcarracing.co.uk/news/fall…

This pocket watch belonged to an airman shot down in World War One. It was handed down to a little boy in Sedgefield, starting a collection that grew & grew over 74 years. Last week, the 'boy' was honoured with a British Empire Medal. Full story in tomorrow's @TheNorthernEcho

Maybe Reform can’t vet for future comments. But they can certainly consider what it is about their party that attracts people likely to make such comments and fails to deter them from doing so.

Whether you’re woke or MAGA, Christian or atheist, red or blue, surely everyone can agree that the leader of the free world responding to the horrific death of a vulnerable young man in a tiger enclosure by sharing footage of his terrible fate, and then posting an AI-generated version of the encounter portraying himself as capable of surviving it, is sick, deranged and profoundly disturbing. Whatever that AI video was supposed to demonstrate, it was an appalling display of narcissism and a complete absence of basic human decency. And it shames America. It shames the country’s reputation, and it shames the people who put this man in the White House. This isn’t about being left-wing or right-wing. Millions of Americans voted for Trump because they are conservatives, because they believe in family values, personal responsibility and freedom. Yet their president routinely behaves in ways that make a mockery of those very values. I’m a Brit watching from afar, and I’m not interested in any whataboutery. There’s plenty about my own country and its political leaders that I find deeply shameful. But I genuinely cannot think of a British leader in my lifetime who has displayed quite such a grotesque combination of infantility, offensiveness and narcissism as the current president of the United States. This isn’t strength. It isn’t humour. It isn’t owning the liberals. It’s the behaviour of a man who appears incapable of recognising that the suffering and death of another human being should not be turned into an opportunity for self-glorification. It’s utterly shameful. The sooner Donald Trump leaves the political stage, the better. And I sincerely hope the midterms mark the beginning of that process.

Four new members bring a wealth of experience to the board of Darlington Pride in Place – an initiative to invest up to £20m in the town’s most disadvantaged communities. darlingtonprideinplace.com/2…