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This family friendly event will give your little ones the chance to get up close to some seriously big machinery and climb in the drivers seat to learn how they are operated. Ride-on pedal tractors will also be available to let them put their newfound skills to the test, as well as small play equipment and colouring-in activities.

Young actors set to captivate audiences in an upcoming stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies have spoken of their excitement at starring in a professional...

A local band which was formed as a way of giving back to charity has two gigs coming up in aid of the Air...

Young people are being encouraged to make their own monsters as part of a competition to win tickets to a new family show. Monstersaurus!, the...

On Saturday 9th June, over 30 dancers from Ferryhill’s New Dance Generation took to the stage at Durham’s Gala Theatre in The Big Dance...

Shildon Railway Institute is to host a special screening of a recently released documentary film about the mining communities of County Durham, presented by...

The Spennymoor Banner Group is to host a special screening of a recently released documentary film about the mining communities of County Durham, presented by two of its makers, Mark Thorburn and Marie Gardiner of Lonely Tower Film and Media. Entitled ‘Hollowed Ground – The People of the Durham Coalfield‘, the film explores local identity across our region, how this was influenced by the coal industry that caused so many pit towns and villages to explode into being and the resilience and determination of those communities through the adversity of the decline of coal mining.

A short horror film made for just £200 has reached it's 20K target on Halloween and is now set for a sequel. The Devil's Stone...

This month on Tales from the Rails, we are talking about education. Who had an education or skills in the early days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, who didn’t, and how did senior S&DR staff decide to improve educational standards amongst its workers? And did the workers appreciate this? Did engine drivers prefer to fry their pocket watches in the pub?

The next meeting of Bishop Auckland Civic Society will take place on Monday, 3rd June at 7.30pm in Bishop Auckland Town Hall, when acclaimed theatre, radio, television and non-fiction writer, Michael Chaplin, will address the Society in a talk entitled My father, Sid Chaplin.