Durham Times Leisure - Features

‘Cum on feel the noize’ as Noddy turns back the clock on his career

4:54pm Friday 17th May 2013

NODDY Holder’s unmistakable voice, which Slade a generation of pop fans, is reviving the days of glam rock, big sideburns and, of course, the tinsel triumph that is the single Merry Christmas Everybody.

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Life – and death – in industrial village that was founded 170 years ago

12:08pm Friday 3rd May 2013

‘ONCE the men and women who worked at Steetley's quarry are gone, there will be no one who remembers that Coxhoe was an industrial village,’’ says Janice Young, of Coxhoe Local History Group.

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Village that sprung up when ‘black gold’ was found in ground

11:47am Friday 26th April 2013

THE remote fells of west Durham were once full of coal miners and confusing place names.

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Crowning glory of a life dedicated to others – the new Lord Lieutenant

11:02am Friday 19th April 2013

MARCH 8 was the beginning of a new chapter of Sue Snowdon’s busy life – and it is a challenge the former shopkeeper’s daughter is relishing.

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Dean has ensured Cathedral remains a guiding light in the community

10:27am Friday 12th April 2013

TEN years ago on St Cuthbert’s Day, I came to Durham as Dean, arriving on the footplate of a GNER train.

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Action that drove wedge into communities that still lingers to this day

12:17pm Friday 5th April 2013

‘IF I saw a policeman lying dying, I wouldn’t help.” The socalled Battle of Orgreave may be nearly 30 years ago, but the pain is still raw.

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The right way, the wrong way and Steinway – how pupils are given a musical head-start over their peers

11:03am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

THE teenager’s fingers glide effortlessly across ivory and ebony-coloured keys, classical music reverberating around the room as his reflection is caught in the highly polished surface of the world’s best-quality piano.

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Clowning around, the Fab Four and Mother Teresa – meet Joan Donkin

12:03pm Friday 22nd March 2013

AS a young girl Joan Donkin helped her father, Norman, in his cellar carpentry workshop at their home in Durham City.

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Now Professor sets his sights on the Dead Sea Scrolls (and that’s Gospel)

1:46pm Friday 15th March 2013

THE moment the doors of Durham University’s Palace Green Library are thrown open on July 1 will mark both a beginning and an ending.

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