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Ground collapse in Darlington cemetery reveals unique Quaker burial chamber
Murder at Baydale: how the bloody body helped identify its killer
"The poor pollis. He is killed." Sensation as sergeant is stoned to death
Triple execution at Durham Part 2: The Barnard Castle Whiskey Drinker
Triple execution at Durham Part 1: The Gainford Poisoner
Triple execution at Durham Part 4: The hangman gets to work
Triple execution at Durham Part 3: The Darlington Fenian Murder
Zero posts and border signs: relics from another age left beside our railways
A journey on the A67: Dick Turpin, the Baydale Beck, a lost white cross and a gin-gan
Darlington's fabulous facial hair over the decades charted in new exhibition
The six brave brothers caught up in the war's first gas attack
Painting the buzz of Bishop Auckland in the old days
Solved: the mystery of Sedgefield's poppy stones on WW1 soldier's headstone
Village hall, where the WI paddled the concrete, celebrates its 100th anniversary
How Darlington honoured its gallant WW1 heroes with a controversial medal
100-year-old memorial commemorates sailor who took part in extraordinary WW1 trial
Diary of a WW2 Darlington airman sheds light on mystery fatal crash
Corners of south Durham that, since the First World War, have been forever Belgium
Self-sacrificing bravery of the names carved in a village's stone memorial
In a day of great drama, how the operatic society saved Darlington Hippodrome
From the archive: the cheeky ways Darlington Operatic Society has promoted its shows
A century of song: how Darlington Operatic Society made the Hippodrome its home
The greatest player from the south Durham golden age of amateur football
One family's story of scouts, samplers and guides
Rail museum goes steam bananas as it celebrates its 20th anniversary
Hidden roadside memorial marks the final fall of a duchess's favourite
Why are the Vikings returning to light up Raby Castle in The Glittering North?
Ooooh! What a feeling! Do you remember legwarmers, a 1980s fashion essential?
The wealthy Victorian railwaymen who made their home in a haunted Darlington hall
When a suspected murderer was pressed to death in Durham Market Place
Shocking murder on the railway line exactly 100 years ago this week
From Ostend to Darlo: a WW1 Belgian refugee and the VC-winning naval war hero
How the Yorkshire Shepherdess goes in search of Anty John in her new series
When a president gave an artist a loco that worked the Victoria Falls Bridge
Do you have a sampler made by someone in your family tree?
Darlington's girl guides in the spotlight of new exhibition
Gaslighting Staindrop: when villagers opposed lighting up their streets
Famous jockey killed in terrible accident at Scotch Corner 100 years ago
Childhood dream home in County Durham pit village now up for sale for £1.495m
The good Miss Allan who employed a feline fisherman to keep the Blackwell moggies fed
The Yorkshire lake that was formed by a curse - and drowned a town
The castle and the countess: when a high society scandal shocked south Durham
Weeding out the truth about Darlington's first school where a cannabis farm was found
From bleak huts to Europe's largest base: the garrison's story told in six buildings
Raising a glass to an Old Barnardian 80 years after he fought for the bridge too far
199 years ago, south Durham gave birth to the first of the modern railways...
Why the metallurgist Doc was a hot property on the football field
When there was a walkover at Lucy Cross
The Red Well is for sale - but where is the red well?
Detectorist's great find takes us back to when Darlington traded with St Petersburg
Clarkson's head for heights on his Grand Tour over Darlington's Victoria Falls Bridge
A Darlington gliderman at Arnhem trying to capture the bridge too far 80 years ago
From Coundon to Hollywood: how Robert Redford played a Durham lad in famous war film
Drama of the 1926 East Coast Main Line trainwreckers, and the highest point in Durham