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“It was a magnificent sight to see more than 100 tanks go into action,” wrote Captain James Sherley, “the well known veterinary surgeon of…

After being closed for nearly a year, Darlington library reopens on Saturday, September 9. It turns a new leaf in a story that features referendums,…

HERE is a selection of great pictures of street parties held in the Darlington area in the days after the 1953 coronation.

It is 70 years since the people of Britain last saw a new monarch crowned amid great pomp and ceremony, so the coronation of King Charles III in a…

IT is 70 years since the people of Britain last saw a new monarch crowned amid great pomp and ceremony, so the coronation of King Charles III in a…

The Beatles biographer evokes the energy and glamour of the 1960s in this droll and vivid account of his years on the Sunday Times Magazine

“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…

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...