ST MARY’S Church, in Gainford, welcomed back school children for the first time in almost two years for a harvest festival service.It was also the first time Gainford Primary School’s…

VOLUNTEER gardeners have planted almost 20,000 spring bulbs in West Auckland.The mammoth effort came scarcely two weeks after the village won gold in the Northumbria-in-Bloom competition for work done around…

MORE than £10,000 has been raised for a brain tumour charity in memory of an upper dale farmer who died earlier this year.Richard Scott was only 45 when he died…

THE discovery of three songsheets in a suitcase in an attic has provided a revelation for three Barnard Castle siblings about their parents’ wartime romance.Val Gatenby and her brothers, Ron…