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MP's gift of a bell takes Darlington market back to the days of the 9pm bargain hour FOR the best part of a millennium, there must have been a bell in Darlington market, but for the last 70 years the wall where it once hung has been empty, with just screwholes high-up in the brickwork outside the market manager’s hatch marking. Ghosts, rescues and wrecks: the gory stories of our lighthouses “WHETHER at home on sea or on land, we have a special affinity to lighthouses,” says Roger O’Reilly in his new book on the country’s 100 top lighthouses. Man arrested in Auckland colliery for revolting murder of own sister WILLIAM JACKSON, the most wanted man in the district, whom it was believed it had taken his own life after murdering his sister near Bedale, was apprehended in West Auckland 150 years ago this week after a nationwide manhunt. In search of the curious, vote-rigging cowhouses dotted around our countryside TRAVELLERS entering Northallerton from the north are currently greeted by a rough bit of boggy, scratty land with a collapsing cowhouse on it. Smoking out why a hospital restaurant was named "The Chimneys" LAST week, we wondered why the restaurant in Bishop Auckland hospital had been given such an un-hospital-like name as “The Chimneys” – as everyone knows, smoking like a chimney is not good for anyone’s health. Howay the Hill! Athletic back in cup final 25 years after the club collapsed HOWAY the Hill! Ferryhill Athletic are back! This evening, the reborn club play in their first senior cup final since they were burned out of their ground by arsonists and forced into dissolution more than 25 years ago. How a lucky break set David Hodgson on the path to European footballing glory GATESHEAD lad David Hodgson had a stellar career playing football. In 1982, he helped England win their first trophy since the World Cup in 1966. Two years later he was involved in a European Cup final with Liverpool and a year after that he played for Sunderland in a cup final at Wembley. The surprising place in literary history of a Darlington pub THERE was much surprise in Darlington last week that the Hoskins pub in Blackwellgate has not only closed and been taken over but a £400,000 refurbishment has already begun. The days when a classic car was turned into a farm hack A 1926 Morris Cowley Bullnose Sports is taking to the roads for the first time since the 1930s to attend the Hurworth Grange Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show tomorrow. Extra in one of the 1980s' biggest TV shows gets out his behind-the-scenes pictures IN 1988, All Creatures Great and Small returned to our television screens after a break of eight years with 22 episodes being screened in less than 12 months. The runaway train came down the track – and a forgotten hero saved scores of lives THE 190th anniversary of an anonymous railway hero saving scores of lives by averting an accident is being commemorated today by an exhibition in Howden-le-Wear. Read more

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