About 40 people attended a hastily-convened public meeting following the submission of a planning application for a £32m tourist development at Hamsterley Forest.

Charity fundraisers handed over cheques totalling £11,500 to a host of community groups at their annual presentation evening.

Barnard Castle Auction Mart will provide refuge to monthly farmers’ market this Saturday following weather warnings for high wind at the weekend.

An upper dale farmer has expressed his relief after councillors backed a proposal to extend a bed and breakfast service… for pigs.