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,…

A DALE farmer aims to enter competition sheepshearing after earning the British Wool Association’s highest award.Lewis Wearmouth achieved a gold seal at the latest shearing course presented at Woodland by…

Five years after her death, Hannah Hauxwell’s epic story lives on through a Durham Wildlife Trust conservation project, on the land where the ‘Daughter of the Dales’ captured the hearts…