A YOUTH folk band from Teesdale has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise cash to attend two festivals later this summer.Cream Tees was formed about eight years through Music at…

THIEVES made off with less than £50 after causing thousands of pounds worth of damage by breaking into a medieval church.St Mary’s Church, in Staindrop, was burgled between 5pm and…

A RANGE of training activities were put on by Utass (Upper Teesdale Agricultural Support Services) in the past month.Sessions hosted last week included sheep shearing and the safe use of…

A BARNARD CASTLE man has taken some 35 years to grow a veritable forest of miniature trees.Bonsai artist Frank Smith’s back garden is a treasure trove of miniature firs, oaks,…