A specialist assessment needs to be done before a pedestrian crossing can be considered for Staindrop, parish councillors have been told.

Banter and breakfast is on the cards as a trial of a new men’s club gets under way early in the new year.

The erection of a polytunnel and shepherd’s hut in Cockfield might have destroyed archaeological evidence of an historic moat, county planners have said.

Darlington’s festive offering this year is a bold twist on a classic tale, and it delivers in style.