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Sister Anna is the last link in 121-year tradition

SAYING FAREWELL: Sister Anna Ryan with children in the playground at Esh Laude Primary School as she retires after 31 years at the neighbouring convent.

2:41pm Friday 23rd July 2010

MORE than a century of schooling tradition is coming to an end, with the closure of a Catholic convent attached to a County Durham primary.

Brilliant Brit Rosa turns to chapter two

BRILLIANT BRIT: Rosa Rankin-Gee after graduating from Durham University. She has been named as one of Esquire magazine's Brilliant Brits.

3:31pm Friday 16th July 2010

On her last day as a Durham University undergraduate, emerging author Rosa Rankin-Gee spoke to JIM ENTWISTLE about her aspirations, her literary family, and her double life as a goal-scoring footballer.

Marking history, making history

EARLY DREAMS: Founder Frank Atkinson, right, showing off the Open Air Museum of Living History project in 1968

2:39pm Friday 9th July 2010

The North-East’s very own “living museum”, Beamish, is celebrating its 40th year. STUART ARNOLD reports.

A cuppa with the man who would be king

NEXT STOP? Ed Miliband in Durham last Friday.

3:27pm Friday 2nd July 2010

Along with his fellow leadership contenders, Ed Miliband is caught up in the hectic whirl of securing support from Labour activists. He met TONY KEARNEY during his visit to Durham last Friday to discuss ideology, the Budget and the Lib Dems over a cup of tea.

After the Holocaust

A picture taken just after the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945 showing children behind barbed wire fencing

3:34pm Friday 25th June 2010

FOR 60 years, the scene has haunted David Hughes. Even today as he recalls it, he has a sense of disbelieving shock about what he saw all those years ago, at the harbour in Famagusta in Cyprus.

Search for lost portrait of hero who dedicated life to workers

KILLED IN ACTION: Lt Philip Brown, who before going to war devoted himself to the Workers’ Educational Association, becoming one of the association’s first tutors in the North-East

5:41pm Friday 18th June 2010

ASEARCH has been launched to trace a lost portrait of a First World War hero.

Rowing history shows evolution of club success

GENERATIONS OF ROWERS: Members of Durham Amateur Rowing Club with a potted history of their club in old photographs, posing with their new boat at the River Wear.

6:27pm Friday 11th June 2010

150 years ago, Durham Amateur Rowing Club was founded. FIONA STAINES traces the changes down the years for the club – and the success its members have notched.

Expanding our horizons for half a century

FASCINATING COLLECTION: Volunteer Cindy Clark takes a closer look at some of the items on display at Durham University's Oriental Museum. – Picture: David Wood

5:29pm Friday 4th June 2010

Fifty years ago, the Oriental Museum in Durham opened to help language students understand different cultures.

Peace reigns – but for how long?

The view of Durham Cathedral from Crook Hall’s garden

6:09pm Friday 28th May 2010

A northern relief road for Durham may yet come to pass. Sarah Foster talks to the couple who may have to fight once more to save the tranquilty of their home.

When Durham embraced the sons of America

Historian Gavin Purdon with his new book about a US searchlight crew who were based in Chester-le-Street during WW2. Picture by Tom Banks

5:36pm Friday 21st May 2010

A Chester-le-Street author has researched and written a book about the wartime exploits of US servicemen in the area. Mark Summers reports.

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