A THREE-DAY music festival is just one event planned to raise funds for a community bus for Staindrop.A campaign for the transport scheme was launched at the Wheatsheaf Inn pub…

CHILDREN at a thriving Barnard Castle toddler group will be able to enjoy plenty of new toys after receiving a donation. Smuffies (St Mary’s Under Fives) has been given £500…

RENOWNED botanist Dr Margaret Bradshaw is taking on an 88km pony trek at the age of 95 to highlight a decline in the upper dale’s rarest plants.Her journey, which started…

THE return of young people’s sessions in the upper dale this month has been bittersweet following the retirement of a stalwart youth worker after 17 years.Jen Smurthwaite started as a…