ARCHEOLOGISTS are piecing together how an Iron Age settlement near Cotherstone, might have looked like, four years after first investigating the site. Community group Altogether Archaeology (AA) has been digging…

MORE than 50 families have been left devastated by the sudden closure of a dale nursery school with an “excellent” reputation. Castle Kindergarten, at Staindrop, shut its doors on Thursday…

AN intrepid fundraiser has set himself the gruelling challenge of completing 48 five kilometre runs in 48 hours. Kevin Maughan is running in aid of the Maia Mouse Foundation, a…

FORMER seafarers gathered in Barnard Castle’s Garden of Remembrance to mark Merchant Navy Day. The short ceremony was led by Revd Canon Alec Harding, who read a message from the…