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For centuries before the invention of the internet, the public relied on their local paper to find a romantic match, newspaper clippings show.

A church which for almost 150 years withstood all that fire, flood and freezing temperatures could visit upon it finally closed its doors on Sunday.

SINCE 1990, No 24 Blackwellgate has been the home of the unique Guru boutique. Guru’s lease is expiring in June and Beryl Hankin and her team are…

TODAY marks the end of an era. After 153 years and 28 days, The Northern Echo has finished its association with its Priestgate printing palace.

THE Darlington & Stockton Times is today leaving the Priestgate printing palace that has been its headquarters for nearly 100 years.

THE annual McMullen memorial was attended by more than 50 people last weekend, including one person who, 78 years later, might not have been present…

A WEIGHTS and measures inspector was threatened with a 56lb weight in 1957 when he investigated whether a Darlington door-to-door coalman was…

“WE do not think that women’s football will ever become popular,” said Pip, a cartoonist in 1927 who was lampooning with his pen the big…

ONE hundred years ago this week, in a typical North East terraced house, without the assistance of gas, air or an NHS midwife, Annie Thurgood gave…

THE “preferred location” for the Treasury headquarters in Darlington, it was revealed this week, is “Brunswick”.