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Tombstones turned out to be church's silver lining

MYSTERY SYMBOLS: Above, archaeologist Peter Ryder with some of the stones on display at St Brandon's Church in Brancepeth, including ones showing the mark unique to Brancepeth.

5:29pm Tuesday 15th December 2009

MYSTERIOUS symbols have come to light following the discovery of more than 100 medieval tombstones, previously hidden in the walls of a Saxon church.

Tornado steams home

RIGHT TRACK: The Tornado steams along the Durham City viaduct, with Durham Cathedral in the background, in January

8:41am Thursday 3rd December 2009

TORNADO is to return to its native County Durham next spring for an extended two-week stay.

'It will be a marvel if I get out of this'

THE HELL OF THE TRENCHES: Officers of the DLI at the Battle of Hooge, in February 1915

12:27pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

As the men who died in the First World War are remembered on Armistice Day, a new book marks the wartime history of the 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. Steve Pratt looks at the letters of one soldier from Consett.

The view from East Berlin

THREE GENERATIONS: Jenny Laue, left, was 14 when the Wall came down. Her mother, Ute, centre, and grandmother, Elfriede, at the same age

12:39pm Tuesday 10th November 2009

In the second part of our series, Jenny Laue, who was born and grew up in East Berlin, speaks to her family about how they felt when their world was changed for ever.

Fall of the Wall: Turning point

SYMBOLIC: A man takes a hammer to the Wall

10:28am Monday 9th November 2009

Today, Germans commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the first of our reports on the event, Alison Ford remembers a city on the cusp of great social change

A region remembers

POIGNANT CEREMONY: Richmond honors the fallen soldiers at the Green Howards memorial

7:55am Monday 9th November 2009

THE Archbishop of Canterbury marked Remembrance Sunday at Britain’s biggest Army base.

Sombre time captured on the frontline

TRENCH HORROR: Two soldiers at the entrance to a tunnel leading under No Man’s Land

8:15am Thursday 8th October 2009

IT was the most terrible day in the history of the British Army with more than 57,000 casualties, of whom nearly 20,000 were killed.

Steam loco makes historic crossing

ICONIC SIGHT: Carving its way through the Ribble Valley, the Tornado steam locomotive speeds across the 24 arches of the Ribblehead Viaduct, in the North Yorkshire Dales, as it runs on the world-famous Settle to Carlisle railway for the very first time on

8:14am Monday 5th October 2009

A STEAM locomotive which was the first to be built in the country for 50 years has made a breathtaking journey across an iconic viaduct.

Exhibition throws spotlight on a special place

CITY LANDMARK: The statue of Lord Londonderry, which could be on the move

8:25am Thursday 17th September 2009

AN exhibition is shedding light on the colourful past of a city’s market place.

Youngsters experience evacuation

PACKED UP: Children from Emerald Nursery in Frosterley dressed as evacuees. From left, Eric Proud, three, Katie Milburn, three, Jake Richardson, two, and Eve Proud, three

8:08am Tuesday 15th September 2009

THESE children are too young to understand what gas masks and air raid sirens meant to their great-grandparents, but they enjoyed getting on board for a trip back in time yesterday.









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