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A YELLOW pencil, knife sharpened to a point at one end and teeth marks chewed into the other, has recently been rediscovered in an old garage in…

FOR Black History Month in October, we told the stories of 15 pioneering people of colour in our area, and we were surprised by how many there were…

JACKY the monkey was once laid to rest by his master in the stately grounds of a County Durham castle, but his master had taken a mistress and had…

HENRY CHRISTER lived in the heart of Darlington’s iron-working community 150 years ago, when times were tough and life was cheap.

NEXT weekend, there is the chance to walk quite literally in the footsteps of a showbiz giant. Because, at his most corpulent, actor and theatre impresario Stephen Kemble weighed 30 stone, and he was famed the length and indeed width of the country for being able to play Shakespeare’s most rotund character, Sir John Falstaff, without any padding. He made his name in London, but came north to manage a circuit of theatres based around Durham and Newcastle, but stretching as far north as A...

MARTHA ANNE DODD, 83, was “a small, grey-haired. pleasant lady who always dressed smartly and was always very prim”. She sang in the Baptist…