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Old-style pub with top-end menu

3:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

AN old-style English pub serving up good, old English, hearty grub at an affordable price. Very little could be finer and it is one of the things the atmospheric Hamilton Russell Arms, in Thorpe Thewles, near Stockton does. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Hotel makes bid for former glories

4:14pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

FOR years, the Croft Spa Hotel, south of Darlington on the A167, traded on past glories. Like the Scotch Corner Hotel, it had once been a landmark hostelry – the place for your wedding or christening do, a family anniversary or the Rotary/ NFU/Round Table dinner or YFC dance. While never quite posh, it was a place of renown, of solid reputation.

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A South Indian gem in the North

2:30pm Friday 26th April 2013

OUR visit to this South Indian success story presented a trip down memory lane.I was 19 again and in Tamil Nadu – India’s most southerly state. An earnest gap year student,I found myself teaching for a while in an orphanage where the meagre diet featured rice – morning, noon and night – and very little else.

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Fresh fare much to a townie’s taste

3:48pm Friday 19th April 2013

FARM shops have come a long way.

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End of an era for another rural pub

12:41pm Friday 12th April 2013

I’M with Vince Cable 100 per cent on this one. The Business Secretary wants to set up a watchdog to sort out the pub companies and their fractured relationships with tenants.

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By George, they saved our evening

2:55pm Friday 5th April 2013

THE perils of not properly planning a night out. The result was a mystery tour through North Yorkshire that could have been disastrous but turned out well.

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Portions to slay a Dragon’s appetite

11:36am Wednesday 3rd April 2013

IN the South Durham village of Heighington, the locals are revolting. By that I mean they are up in arms, manning the barricades, on the warpath and generally unhappy, very unhappy in fact, about a plan for a Gyspy site on the edge of their village.

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Portions to slay a Dragon's appetite

11:59am Friday 29th March 2013

IN the South Durham village of Heighington, the locals are revolting. By that I mean they are up in arms, manning the barricades, on the warpath and generally unhappy, very unhappy in fact, about a plan for a Gyspy site on the edge of their village.

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The Buck Inn, Maunby, Thirsk

3:44pm Friday 22nd March 2013

TWO weeks ago, Sylvia asked somewhat petulantly why she had been dragged to the admittedly underwhelming Bridge House Hotel at Catterick Bridge. This week the question was: “When are we coming back here, then?”

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It’s barbecue weather in Teesdale

3:05pm Friday 15th March 2013

WITH the horse meat scandal continuing to make headlines and frozen ‘beef’ burger sales plunging by almost half, visiting a steakhouse and grill might not be at the top of everyone’s agenda when choosing to eat out.

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