3 Jun 2021 DOWN TO BUSINESS: Startforth Parish Council chairman Pat Estall, centre, presides over the annual meeting, with, from left, Cllr Liz Franklin, clerk Judith Mashiter, Cllr Peter Worley, Cllr Johnny Cooke-Hurle and Cllr Chris Carr After pitching up at Cotherstone village green for an al fresco parish council meeting, reporter Stuart Laundy this week finds himself back out on assignment and under cover... but all is not what it seems. "TIMES have definitely changed,” says Johnny Cooke-Hurle with a wry smile. We are standing in what, back in the day, would have been the winter home of his young stock cattle at Westwood Farm, on the A67 Bowes Road.