Uncle Syd News Today

Think of the United States in the 1970s, and a number of images come to mind, few of them appealing: disco music; gas shortages; the Watergate scandal; a U.S. president citing a “crisis of confidence” among Americans; a last helicopter lifting off the...

ONE hundred years ago this week, Darlington was given one of the most remarkable gifts in its history: a big game collection, the finest in the north of England, including 182 heads of exotic animals and an enormous stuffed creature that was to become a feature of many Darlingtonians’ childhoods. The Northern Echo in 1921 said the collection comprised “a magnificent Polar bear, the head and hide of a royal black-maned lion, the head and skull of a huge white rhinoceros, and a gigantic b...