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…

THE flag on Ovington’s historic maypole is once again flying high thanks a local business’ gesture of goodwill. The flag rope snapped early last month during high winds leaving residents…