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Spring is springing and, with a little warmth in the sun, now is the time to take a little walk around a village green and look at some pants.

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…

STOCKTON was once a thriving port, serving all of south Durham and North Yorkshire.

ON the credit side, Eliza Barclay came from Darlington’s biggest banking Family and she married, as her surname suggests, into one of the…

IN the golden age of motorsport, there was a track on every corner, a circuit in every town, an old airfield in every district and a superstar on…

AFTER Pilot Officer William McMullen stayed with his stricken plane in a desperate, but successful, bid to prevent it from crashlanding in flames in…

AN airman who sacrificed his own life to save a town is going to be remembered in a Zoom ceremony on Wednesday night at the moment he crashed 76 years ago. In normal times, at 8.49pm on the anniversary of Pilot Office William McMullen’s death, a crowd gathers near the spot where he made the ultimate sacrifice to remember his heroism. McMullen could have jumped from his stricken bomber but instead stayed at the controls to steer it away from the houses of Darlington. Last year, on the 75...

AROUND 8.45pm on January 13, 1945, Pilot Officer William McMullen made a split second decision in the skies above Darlington: would he jump from his burning Lancaster bomber and save his own life but allow his plane to plough into the houses below, or would he stay with it in its dying moments and try and steer it to the safety of farmland, even if that inevitably meant sacrificing his own life. He chose the latter course, and at 8.49pm he plunged to the ground beside what is now McMullen Roa...