FIVE years ago this week, a woman was killed and her son and mother seriously injured during a birthday celebration at their holiday home in Turkey.

Anne Bury, of Swainby, near Stokesley, had been celebrating at her villa in Dalyan when a local gardener was reported to have burst onto the property with a shotgun.

The gunman first shot Miss Bury's 87-year-old mother, Cecille, in the back, then her son Alex, 24, in the leg before chasing her up three flights of stairs to the top of the villa.

Miss Bury bolted herself in a bathroom before the gunman shot the lock off the door and fired at her four times.

Doctors pronounced her dead at the scene while Mrs Bury and her grandson were both taken to hospital for treatment.

Also that week, a pensioner spent an hour clinging to a wooden arch in a fast-flowing river after falling 20ft into water.

The 78-year-old man was painting his friend’s conservatory at Demesnes Mill next to the River Tees at Barnard Castle when his ladder slipped.

More than 30 people were involved in the rescue, including the Great North Air Ambulance and the Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team.

The man was rescued and taken to The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough.

His friend, Joan Young, who lived at the mill, said: "I understand he has broken six ribs and will be in hospital for a few days. I am so shocked by the whole thing."

Meanwhile, the next person to be appointed as Bishop of Durham was announced.

The Right Reverend Paul Butler, previously the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, said he was deeply humbled and honoured after his new position was revealed by Downing Street.

Taking over from his predecessor, Justin Welby, now Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr Butler said: "I am delighted to be coming to Durham and the North-East at a time of significant change that is both exciting and challenging in equal parts.”

And tributes were paid to the man who invented After Eights when he died at the age of 74.

Brian Sollitt was born in York in 1938 and helped create Yorkies, Lion Bars and Matchmakers while working at the confectionery firm of Rowntree.

He was asked, in secret, to come up with a method for wrapping delicate squares of peppermint fondant in fine, dark chocolate.

It was the beginning of the After Eight mint. The process he developed for stopping its liquid centre from oozing out has never been revealed.