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A community project has received a £5,000 boost in its fight against poverty this winter.

Monday is the 200th anniversary of one of the most important events in local railway history which took place in a kebab shop ON the evening of April 19, 1821, two strangers approached the front door of Edward Pease's home in Northgate, Darlington. They came from wildest Northumberland and had set off early that morning by horse for Newcastle. At Newcastle, they caught a stagecoach bound for Stockton "by nip" – tipping the driver rather than paying the fare. From Stockton, they walked 12 miles across farm and field, following the path that was proposed for the Stockton and Darlington ...

COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had riding bets worth £4m today, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named him after the Teesdale village, sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. Cotherstone became regarded as the greatest racehorse of his day, but in an era when the sport of kings w...

COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had bets worth £4m in today’s money riding, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named the horse after the Teesdale village, he sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. In those days, the sport of kings was notoriously crooked, and although Cotherstone...