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Moorland group sets out 30-year vision
A 30-YEAR vision for the North York Moors National Park calls for action to stop the loss of heather moorland to bracken, reverting conifer plantations to moorland, and safeguarding the future of hill sheep flocks and grouse breeding. It has been drawn
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Nursery cleared of using toddlers to back Labour Party
AN INVESTIGATION into how nursery toddlers were given drawing paper bearing Labour Party slogans has found there was no political motivation behind the incident. Children from St Oswald's PreSchool, in Newton Aycliffe, proudly took artwork home to their
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Amphibians rescued from abandoned airport pool
A SPECIES of endangered and protected newt has been found among hundreds of amphibians trapped in a half-built swimming pool. Developers rescued up to 200 frogs, toads and newts after they were discovered on a building site at Durham Tees Valley Airport
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Tours offer rare glimpse of castle artefects
DEATH-DEALING arrow heads capable of penetrating plate armour or ripping through chain mail are going on display for the first time. The objects were found at Pickering Castle in the 1920s, along with other specimens used for hunting wild boar and deer
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Shopkeeper takes the lead in rejecting plastic bags
A HEALTH food business owner is playing his part in improving the state of the planet after he eliminated plastic bags. Mike Barker, who runs the Health Warehouse, in Post House Wynd, Darlington, gave away his final plastic bag last week. He decided
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Residents want meeting as house row goes on
RESIDENTS have asked to meet with developers in an ongoing row over a house which was built too high. Homeowners in Ingleby Barwick said they have never been granted a meeting, or even a conversation, with Charles Church builders over the offending five-bedroom
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Tools stolen in raid
POLICE are appealing for help from the public following a raid on a joiner's workshop. Burglars broke into ATK Joinery, in Northallerton High Street, last week and stole power tools worth about £4,000. Their haul included Makita and Dewalt makes of
