EVENWOOD is looking a lot brighter and more colourful this summer following the start of a new in-bloom group.Teaching assistants Kay Gill and Jacqueline Gibey started Evenwood-in-Bloom in March, and…

DAYS of hard work by volunteers had West Auckland looking immaculate ahead of judging for the Northumbria-in-Bloom competition.It is the first time West has entered the main village category, after…

A TRUST dedicated to preserving upper Teesdale’s rare plants has been awarded £222,400.The cash, from the Government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund, will enable the Teesdale Special Flora Research…

In her regular column, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer SOME people say life is a game of…