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Cockfield FC 2013 update… by Sarah Proud.

12:27pm Sunday 28th April 2013

The football season is nearly over and at the moment (26/4/13) Cockfield are at the top of the first division in the Wear Valley Sunday League.

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In the land of Dixie…

10:34pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

E-mail from Neville Kirby this week informing us of one of the forthcoming Jeremiah Dixon celebrations in Cockfield.

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The Rebellious Fairy… by Viv Longstaff.

7:43pm Thursday 11th April 2013

Bumped into Nigel the other day in the Co-op and as usual when I see him, he asked me when I was doing another blog and I told him that I had exhausted everything interesting and did not want to bore people to death but would try to think of something.

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Lydia F Loopars…

10:30am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

The trouble with doing an intermittent blog is that I’m quickly ‘sussed’ when I post on April 1st especially when it’s a controversial story.

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Aghast at opencast…

12:29am Monday 1st April 2013

As a lot of people will have seen in last weeks media, Northern Coal Limited (NCL) is planning an opencast site on Cockfield Fell. It has emerged that the company has already had tentative talks with the relevant authorities including English Heritage and DCC with a plan that will destroy the largest scheduled Ancient Monument in the UK.

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A drive of two halves…

8:02pm Monday 25th March 2013

As you can see from these two photographs, taken just 30 minutes apart, my drive from Cockfield to Darlington on Saturday morning, was an interesting one.

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A suite tale…

3:56pm Monday 11th March 2013

Sometimes I get told a story that is so bizarre it sounds like a joke or a wind up, but when it concerns our old mate Tupper, nothing surprises me!

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A breath of fresh hair…

4:09pm Monday 4th March 2013

My mate, Trevor Peate, has recently got himself a facebook account and, I have to say, he’s rapidly becoming an internet sensation. You can see Trevor in the photograph above, but the person who he is sitting on remains a mystery!

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What’s the catch…

1:31pm Monday 25th February 2013

You know you’re getting older when you use what you think is an everyday word but the twenty something generation have never heard of it!

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Half term activity fun…

9:50pm Tuesday 12th February 2013

Half term kids activity day at Claryfairys cafe, Cockfield on Monday 18th February.

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