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There are now just six traditional market stall holders left in Darlingtons Victorian covered market

By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire) Claire Bulman of Waterstones, Cllr Alan Marshall, Fran Wood and Salah Asserha, of Falafel Fella. FREE public Wi-Fi has been launched across a town centre in a bid to encourage people to spend more time there. Shoppers and visitors in Darlington can now access Wi-Fi as part of the town centres ongoing...

ON THIS DAY: MAY 1, 1967 “COME Co-operative shopping”, urged the full page advert in the Echo’s sister paper, the Evening Despatch, 54 years ago, and as we are gradually unlocking and returning to shopping, it seemed appropriate to look at what was enticing shoppers into the stores of Darlington in the late 1960s. The co-op was, of course, on Priestgate, where it was started in 1869, and it came to occupy all the space through to Tubwell Row until it closed in 1985 to be replaced by...

WHSmith reveal fate of Darlington store as Bishop Auckland branch set to close THE retailer WHSmith has revealed the fate of its Darlington store after confirming the permanent closure of a branch in County Durham. The chain said its store in the Cornmill Centre in the town centre would remain open with the retailer having "no current plans" to close the site. It follows on from WHSmith this week confirming the closure of its store in Bishop Auckland town centre at the end of the month. ...

Car park charges re-introduced at Darlington shopping centre A DARINGTON shopping centre has reintroduced its car parking charges. The Cornmill Centre in Darlington has announced its parking charges will be re-introduced, with changes coming into effect immediately.  To park at the Cornmill Car Park from Monday to Saturday, it will cost you £2 for up to two hours, £2.50 for three to four hours, £3.50 for four to five hours and for more than five hours, it is £5.  On Sundays, park...

DARLINGTON’s campaign to keep its famous Locomotion No. 1 in the town hit the nation’s televisions last night as it made a “very cool” cameo on Coronation Street. Eagle-eyed fans of the soap spotted the Keep the Loco poster the background of a scene in Roy Rolls café. The cafe was the latest business to display the eye-caching campaign poster. The character Roy Cropper, who runs the café, is a huge railway enthusiast so the poster was a fitting addition to the railway memorabi...