VILLAGERS in County Durham have held a meeting to examine ways they could save an ancient woodland from neglect.
Organisers of the meeting at Tanfield Lea, near Stanley, explained that the small wood near Tanfield Lea Primary School and a neighbouring former park had become a "dumping ground".
The meeting was held to think of ways to improve the area and to form a steering group charged with examining the issue further.
Ward councillor for the area Olga Milburn said it was being regularly flooded as rubbish had clogged up a stream
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