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Youngsters team up with experts for kit car project

Youngsters team up with experts for kit car project

ByMartin PaulDec 23, 2024

TOP GEAR: Headteacher Nicky Wright, Edge Hotel landlady Fiona Coastworth and Amit Kumar, from Cummins, with the year 5 group

Mrs T goes extra mile to raise cash for school

Mrs T goes extra mile to raise cash for school

ByNicky CarterOct 4, 2023

A TEACHING assistant’s sponsored summer trek which raised almost £1,800 that will fund the revamp of an outdoor learning area. While pupils from St Mary’s RC School, Barnard Castle, were…

Store staff step out and raise over £1,200 by tackling Yorkshire peaks

Store staff step out and raise over £1,200 by tackling Yorkshire peaks

ByNicky CarterOct 3, 2023

FURNITURE store work mates were still smiling as they finished a gruelling 50,000-step challenge, completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks and raising more than £1,200 for colleague Gina Russell’s granddaughter Abby…

We must protect our hedgerows’

We must protect our hedgerows’

ByTeesdale MercuryOct 3, 2023

The Government needs to maintain existing levels of protection for hedgerows while also ensuring new ones are created, the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) says. The Department for the Environment,…

If you feel like a lost sheep? Apply within…

If you feel like a lost sheep? Apply within…

ByNicky CarterOct 2, 2023

Nicky Carter reflects on the work of a group of volunteers who kept the social heart of the village alive with a community pub, the PinfoldFor the past four years…