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OUTCRY over efforts to convert an 18th Century village pub into a home has swayed councillors to reject the bid. The closure of the Vane Arms in August 2019 saw Long Newton villagers mount a campaign to save it – with the pub granted special status last year.  But plans to convert the Darlington Road pub and create a three-bedroom property in the rear beer garden had threatened to thwart the dream.  More than 100 people objected to the plans ahead of Wednesday’s planning committee...

FLAGS flew, bands played, people cheered and Locomotion No 1, saved from the scrapyard, stood quietly by as Joseph Pease laid the foundation stone of the pedestal on which the historic engine was to be placed. As the first part of the day-long proceedings on June 6, 1857, came to an end, Henry Pease, Joseph’s younger brother who was the newly elected MP for South Durham, took to the plinth and said that “he rejoiced at seeing the first locomotive about to be placed in a suitable positio...