SCORES of people turned out to enjoy fun and games as Hamsterley Hoppings made its return to the annual calendar after missing a year because of Covid-19.The event was slightly…

AN open-air jazz performance which proved a hit with villagers is to be repeated.Jazz on the Green, in Gainford, brought some relief from the Covid restrictions when Bill Goyder and…

THE congregation at St Mary’s, Whorlton, marked the retirement of Miss Jean Tallentire from her role as church organist.Jean stepped into this role 70 years ago at the request of…

Betony (Stachys officianalis) Common hedge-nettlePLINY, the great Roman naturalist (AD23-79), who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, wrote of “betonia or vettonica” as a Gaullish name for a plant…