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The branch in Newton Aycliffe Picture: GOOGLE BARCLAYS has responded after facing calls to reconsider the closure of a branch in County Durham later this year. The branch on Beveridge Way in Newton Aycliffe town centre is set to close its doors for the last time on June 23. Blaming a "sustained fall" in branch visits, Barclays has said that more than four fifths of its customers in Newton Aycliffe now use "different ways" to bank. Barclays has this week faced calls from residents, ...

BOWLS looks such a genteel game but in Darlington it had an explosive start. Part of the town centre blew up, killing a lad and reducing a yard to rubble and dust, but out of those ashes, exactly 125 years ago this week, the first bowls club was formed. And today that club is exploding again, only this time in a pleasant way with scores of new members raring for a roll up when the green reopens next month. The South Park Bowling Club was formed on March 11, 1896, at a meeting in the Mecha...

RUMOURS had been rife among the civil servants in London for weeks: they were going to be relocated somewhere up north, to a place beginning with D, as part of the Government’s plans to boost the economy of provincial towns. When the news was confirmed, they didn’t learn about it through Twitter, as the Treasury officials learned on Wednesday from the Chancellor that their new “economic campus” was going to be in Darlington. It was brought to the civil servants of the pensions and...

THE 1881 census found William Askew Jackson living in 39, Victoria Road, Darlington, on the north side of the street looking over to where the church hall would be built in 1897. No 39 is now a web designer’s office, but Mr Jackson lived there with his wife, Elizabeth, and children, plus a domestic servant. He had been the landlord of the Queen’s Head in Tubwell Row and The Three Bluebells Hotel in Blackwellgate, but he had become a wine and spirit merchant, with a shop on High Row. H...

SHILDON is not renowned for its glamour or for its exotic luxury. If it has fame, it is for being the cradle of the railways, the crib of heavy industry, so if it were to be associated with an item of clothing, it would surely be the miners overall or the railwaymans donkey jacket, made dirty through the sweat of years of honest labouring. Yet until 30 years ago, Shildon was famed throughout the Eastern Bloc for producing the finest, most luxurious, fur coats. Whenever a Communist was cold,...

PatnaDaily A few months ago, we had received a letter from Mr. Donald L. Reid of Ayrshire, Scotland, informing us that there is yet another place on this planet that shares the name of the capital city of Bihar, Patna. Since then, we, at PatnaDaily.Com, had been toying with the idea of sharing this information with our visitors but for one reason or another, the idea remained just that, an idea! This past December, however, things changed as Mr. Reid, a social historian who has writt...

1585, May 7 The Great Fire of Darlington swept through the wooden buildings of High Row and Skinnergate, rendering 800 of the town’s population of 1,200 homeless. There was no brigade, so the people threw milk and even beer on the flames. It took Darlington 50 years to recover. 1757 The first recorded fire engine – a portable pump – was stationed in the south-west corner of St Cuthbert’s churchyard and the churchwardens were tasked with keeping it “fit for use on any sudden occasi...

A swathe of weather warnings covering parts of Scotland, north west England and Wales remained in place on Saturday night.

The land could see the erection of a house with associated parking and amenity spaces. According to the design and access statement for the application the site is an area of unused garden to the rear of 1 and 1a on Stockton Road, Darlington, and is overgrown and regularly used for fly tipping. lIn road works this week, Darlington Borough Council is announcing the temporary road closure of Morton Park Way. The closure will be from the north side of its junction with Morton Road northwar...

DARLINGTON is one of the first of 100 places in the country to benefit from the Government’s £3.6bm Towns Fund, which aims to transform town centres. It is going to spend the first part of its money on two yards running off High Row – Clark’s and Buckton’s – which are fascinating places, jammed with history and bursting with potential to become quirky, curious and atmospheric. As part of the project, Darlington council is asking people to share their stories, videos, pictures a...