Kaitlyn Ashby
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Why this Durham playground gravestone has a haunting connection to the Titanic (opens the original)
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Today's Object of the Week is a lonely gravestone in a Durham City playground, marking the final resting place of a Victorian clergyman whose life mixed music, controversy and tragedy. Kaitlyn Ashby looks into his story. Tucked away in a Durham City playground sits a 150-year-old gravestone of a vicar ahead of his time, whose music provided the haunting final notes that Titanic survivors never forgot. John Bacchus Dykes, born in 1823, was the vicar of St Oswald's Church in Durham City. It was he
Restored 100-year-old County Durham pavilion opens as a brand new heritage centre (opens the original)
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A much-loved County Durham colliery pavilion has been saved from the threat of permanent closure and transformed into a new heritage museum. The Chilton Heritage Centre has officially opened its doors, marking the completion of a major £270,000 restoration scheme designed to preserve the history of Chilton and Windlestone. Project co-sponsor Ben Race said the museum will celebrate a town whose "human history and social history is incomparable to other places". The building at the Minersâ Welf
Meet Lucy, the Weardale girl who became the face that launched a billion cakes (opens the original)
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IN THE 1850s in Nottingham, a mystery woman baked the fluffiest cakes and pastries in town. Her secret? A baking powder that would soon assist in kitchens from Africa to Australia and the Americas â and would be promoted by an image of a young woman which became an icon of the North-East. A cleaned-up tin of Lingfords' baking powder with Lucy stepping across the stones - it looks as if a waterfall has been added to the Wear for extra dramatic effect In the days before self-raising flour became
Seven roadworks you should know about in Darlington this weekend (opens the original)
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Roadworks will affect seven roads in Darlington this weekend. Here are the roads impacted in the town this Saturday and Sunday (September 26-27): Temporary traffic signals are in place on Sadberge Road in both directions near the A67 because of water main work. The restrictions are expected to remain in place until September 27. One lane traffic is in place on Winchester Way in both directions at Rochester Way because of electricity work. Restrictions are expected to remain in place until Octobe
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