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A metal detecting rally is due to be held at the Thickthorn Hall Estate, near Hethersett, Norwich, for the charity, Sunbeams Play.

CROFT-ON-TEES is an unusual village in that it has not one but two grand halls, and new research shows that’s because for centuries it was two…

CROFT-ON-TEES is an unusual village in that it has not one but two grand halls, and new research shows that’s because for centuries it was two…

RICHMOND’S 950th anniversary of its castle is now itself becoming history, and its story is now told in a new book which also captures a flavour…

RICHMOND’S 950th anniversary of its castle is now itself becoming history, and its story is now told in a new book which also captures a flavour…

Lincolnshire Police have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to following a burglary in Winthorpe.

IN its 950 years, Richmond castle has seen many curious goings-on, but perhaps none has been more curious than the carryings-on between its founder and the daughter of King Harold. Gunhilda, the most beautiful woman in the kingdom, was holed up in a nunnery, going blind, when she fell in love with Count Alan, the creator of the castle and the most powerful man in the north. She left her nunnery for him, and co-habitated with him for perhaps 20 years, and then when he died, she moved onto hi...

IN its 950 years, Richmond castle has seen many curious goings-on, but perhaps none has been more curious than the carryings-on between its founder and the daughter of King Harold. Gunhilda, the most beautiful woman in the kingdom, was holed up in a nunnery, going blind, when she fell in love with Count Alan, the creator of the castle and the most powerful man in the north. She left her nunnery for him, and co-habitated with him for perhaps 20 years, and then when he died, she moved onto hi...

1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in th...

1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in this...