SIX schoolchildren have won book tokens in a lockdown reading competition.The My Best Book of 2021 competition was organised by the Friends of Barnard Castle Library (FBCL) to promote reading…

GAINFORD and Winston’s priest in charge, Revd Eileen Harrop, is to be installed as a non-residential canon of Durham Cathedral in March.The honour has been made in recognition of service…

A SCHOOL headteacher has backed calls for a permanent safe crossing along Bede Road, in Barnard Castle, after a child was knocked over.The accident happened near the Bede Road junction…

PEOPLE living in Hamsterley Forest are calling for more to be done to prevent 4x4s accessing an historic track after a vehicle was abandoned and stripped along the route.County officers…