From this newspaper 100 years ago. - On Monday, as Mr Green, farmer, was travelling from Barnard Castle by the noon train to Piercebridge, he mistook the slowing down of the train at Forcett Junction for the stoppage at Piercebridge and stepped out, falling down the embankment. An alarm was given at Piercebridge, where his top-coat was handed out. He was picked up and conveyed forward on a goods train. He was apparently little the worse for his awkward mistake.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. - Recently, Mr Frank Hugill, a Stokesley farmer, missed a greatly-prized black cat. A protracted search having proved unsuccessful, the farmer decided to have the corn in his Dutch barn threshed. Half of a large stack had been put through the machine when the farm workers found the cat lying beneath a sheaf of corn. Weak, exhausted and emaciated after three weeks and three days of imprisonment without food or drink, the cat was still clinging tenaciously to life. Said Mr Hugill: "So terrible was its condition that most people would have at once extinguished the flickering flame of life. As, however, it was a great pet, I decided to save its life if at all possible. It was taken into the house and given a milky food and a nip of brandy." Now the cat is about again and is rapidly regaining its former health and sleekness.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - A Brotton man, Mr Malcolm Goodman, of Huntcliffe Drive, achieved a high-flying record last weekend when he managed to get 17 stunt kites airborne at the same time.

Malcolm had to wait for about an hour for the right wind conditions before achieving his record over Carlton Bank, near Stokesley, to beat the previous best achieved by a man from Hornsea, North Humberside, who had flown 14 kites. He now plans to write to the compilers of the Guinness Book of Records to inform them of his high-flying feat