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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
100 years of bare bottoms in the window of a major Darlington town centre shop
Travel up the dale was the right prescription for hospitalised soldiers
After 40 years of dedication, the historic gardens of Ravensford say farewell
"The maddening influence of drink": how Durham was awash with fights and booze
If you want to get ahead, get a salt pig... and 59 hats
Meet the mavericks of Lavericks: the story of one of Darlington's quirkiest buildings
Chicken goggles, a kingfisher catcher and a weather predictor: history in 100 objects
Just what did make Lucy Cross, and other pedestrian stories
Unique finds make North East dig one of the most important in the country
A week of history in the life of the Boro
New exhibition relives the grand seaside days out on the railways
How Brian Clough's playing career came to an end exactly 60 years ago
Were you at primary school in Darlington in 1960?
Mysterious Darlington landmark to inventor brought back to life at steam festival
When a village's two halls were home to refugees and the nation's most romantic MP
Can you help reunite this Darlington Second World War scrapbook with its family?
Take a seat: the Bon Lea bench that's pride of place at Thornaby Show tomorrow
Tontines, rum-traders and mileposts: a journey on the A19
When the Battle of Barney shot the town to greater fame than Cummings' eyetest
The day a dales bridge collapsed and people were shelled like peas into the Tees
Sad story of eccentric mason who built some of Darlington's most curious buildings
Tragedy: low-flying Larry waggled his wingtips at his Teesdale girl below, and then..
Meet the nurses who ran a First World War hospital on the edge of Bishop Auckland