In an occasional column, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer…. THERE are dogs almost everywhere you look in…

A GROUP of mums is planning to bring their community closer together by staging events and activities, starting with the Queen’s platinum jubilee. The six women are part of Butterknowle…

A SWIMMING coach who helped thousands of Teesdale children take the plunge, has died aged 87. Daphne White, formerly of Teesdale Road, Startforth, passed away at Springfield Court Nursing Home,…

DURHAM County Council should make an order buy and destroy a dale eyesore. That’s the view of fed-up parish councillors in Gainford, who heard yet more plans have been put…