Barnard Castle, England News

A DOG trainer aims to make youngsters more confident around dogs to reduce the risk of them being bitten.

BRASS music resounded round a city streets to signal the start of a fortnight-long festival featuring performers from across the world.

KNOWN County Durham estate agent has merged with a larger group. Barnard Castle based estate agency, McOwan and Co, owned and operated by Stephen McOwan, has joined residential property agents George F White.

A BURSAR has welcomed a decision that will increase the speed limit on a road that runs past his school.

A FORMER Navy officer who has started his retirement by raising thousands of pounds for Help for Heroes is passing through the region today.

RUSTLERS slit the throats of deer before making off with their carcasses to sell on for meat.

The Tories comfortably held on to Barnard Castle East in Thursday's by-election to Durham County Council .

PUBLIC toilets at Barnard Castle, which were controversially closed two years ago, may be reopened by the new unitary authority.

ONCE again the doors of a North stately home are opened to the type of woman you don't talk about in polite society.

POLICE have called on a car driver to come forward after a County Durham man was killed in a hit-and-run incident.

POLICE are hunting a man who it is believed attempted to snatch a ten-year-old child during a popular County Durham festival.

A SHOCKED couple told last night how their sister-in-law stole tens of thousands of pounds from them to fund a lavish lifestyle with her secret lover.

A charity in the North East has vowed to convert a derelict barn into a bunk-house in memory of an Ilkley friend who died from cancer.

A project by a County Durham museum to restore an 18th Century musical silver swan has won a conservation award.

FEATHERS will fly as a town hosts the worlda s first ever Chicken Chucking Championship.

THE Northern Echo today reveals the two finalists of The if we can, you can challenge.

For the next four hours residents watched horses being paraded across the green, until the crowd dispersed as quickly as it had arrived.

A MAN whose track record includes managing a resort hotel in the US and a backpackersa business in Australia has joined a hotel in Teesdale.

PLACES are available for a trip to the Bowes Museum on Wednesday May 13. The excursion to the museum at Barnard Castle in County Durham has been organised by Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society.

Durham School, one of the oldest established schools in the country, staged A Festival of Music at one of the countrya s newest and most spectacular venues, The Sage Gateshead, on Friday 6 March at 7 p.m. Every single pupil in the senior school performed on this world renowned stage, which was an outstanding musical showcase for the school.