A COTHERSTONE woman is celebrating achieving a lifelong ambition to be a writer with the publication of her first collection of poems, Back to Life.Ally Hammock, 41, wanted to be…

THE Castle Players are back on stage this weekend with an adaptation of Anne Bronte’s controversial novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.The story centres on Helen Huntingdon who, after escaping…

STAINDROP’S Scarth Hall will mark Remembrance Day with a unique First World War themed performance.Duo Fool’s Gold will present Beat The Drum – A Commemoration of the Great War in…

ARTWORK created by a teenage refugee who has made her home in Barnard Castle has been included in a unique exhibition at the Hippodrome, in Darlington.The three-month exhibition Identity, opened…