AN AWARD-WINNING undertaker has claimed the title of England's best funeral planner. It is the second year in a row that John Whitehouse, of Whitehouse Funeral Service in West Auckland Road, Darlington, has won the national award. He was presented with
RESIDENTS living near a new £14.4m road have described the project as "crazy" after council chiefs were criticised in an independent report. A £20,000 inquiry led by a team of construction consultants concluded Darlington Borough Council officials presided
VOLUNTEERS at a Richmond charity shop have criticised plans to partly demolish it as part of a new social housing development. Under the £850,000 proposals, the YMCA shop in Richmond Market Place would lose about two-thirds of its retail space, which
A FOOTBALL semi-final was abandoned at the weekend after a brawl broke out when two players were sent off for fighting. The abandonment of The Northern Echo Darlington Sunday Invitation League's semi-final between Haughton Working Men's Club and Longfield
THREE of North Yorkshire's most successful rural restoration projects will battle it out for the top accolade at an awards ceremony this month. Gayle Mill, near Hawes, the Old Station Yard, in Masham, and The Station, Richmond, have all been shortlisted
A COUNCIL can continue its aim of transferring its housing stock to a registered social landlord after overcoming the latest hurdle. Sedgefield Borough Council hopes to transfer ownership and management of its 8,500 homes to a not-for-profit housing
