Speakers including Stockton South MP Dari Taylor are to address a conference on the "hidden crime" of domestic violence.

Judith Million, community safety co-ordinator with Durham County Council, will chair the conference to be held at Durham County Cricket Club's Riverside ground, Chester-le-Street, on Friday, February 22.

She said: "Domestic violence is a hidden crime and we all have a responsibility to challenge it. The voices of those affected by it must be seen to influence support services and perpetrators must be held to account for their behaviour."