JUDGES had a tough time examining more than 650 exhibits at this year’s Cotherstone Flower and Vegetable Show. Classes ranged from the highly competitive flower and vegetables sections to baking,…

A CAMPAIGN to teach children to play musical instruments is safeguarding the future of a dale brass band.Last year members of Middleton and Teesdale Silver Band received funding to visit…

PART of the cash raised by Staindrop’s annual beer and music festival is to go to a charity in memory of its founder.The August bank holiday weekend festival was started…

VOLUNTEERS descended on Barnard Castle’s lower Demesnes to pull out poisonous weeds.The small group of the town’s volunteer workers uprooted several dumpy bags of noxious ragwort in an effort to…