A PROJECT to encourage more young women to get outdoors and experience the freedom of the fells kicks off on Friday, August 18, with the first of four hikes. The…

A DALE equestrian star has qualified for three of the country’s top events thanks to a horse she brought out of retirement. Charlotte Merrigan-Martin, from Stainton, lost her eventing horse…

DEDICATED members of Barnard Castle’s volunteer workers’ group were out in force last week tidying up the town’s green areas. The workers, who first began to help keep Barney looking…

FISHING THE TEES WITH ANDREW WILKINSON MID-SUMMER is a season for slowing down. The great countryside writer Ronald Blythe, who died aged 100, early this year, wrote: “Summer, for many,…