PART of the cash raised by Staindrop’s annual beer and music festival is to go to a charity in memory of its founder.The August bank holiday weekend festival was started…

VOLUNTEERS descended on Barnard Castle’s lower Demesnes to pull out poisonous weeds.The small group of the town’s volunteer workers uprooted several dumpy bags of noxious ragwort in an effort to…

THE flag on Ovington’s historic maypole is once again flying high thanks a local business’ gesture of goodwill. The flag rope snapped early last month during high winds leaving residents…

COTHERSTONE Primary School pupils got to meet some German visitors while joining their parents in activities in their new forest school. The forest school was built in January with teacher…