A COUNTY councillor is backing a campaign to get a pedestrian crossing in Staindrop. Frustrated parish councillors in the village summoned their county council representative Cllr George Richardson to their…

COLOURFUL SPECTACLE: A pick-up and a tractor in all their festive finery take part in the Farmer Christmas parade in the upper Gaunless Valley

GREAT GIFTS: Old Forge Surgery staff Dr Chris Markwick, Stephanie Markwick, Jade Hetherington and Natalie Mitchell with their community collection gift TM pic

About 300 objections have been lodged against the £32m tourism development at Hamsterely Forest.