In the run up to Christmas this year Theatre Hullaballo in Darlington are putting on ‘The Paper Dolls’ – based on the original book by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb. When a little girl cuts out a string of paper dolls she takes them by the hand and …

One of the region’s finest artists, Mary Ann Rogers, is hosting her famous open weekends over the festive season, and, hey, you’re all invited. Just look at Mary Ann Rogers’ pic of seven guinea fowl. I absolutely adore it. It’s teaming with vibrant lif…

“All women are born and remain daughters” is how novelist, journalist, historian, and member of the well-known Sackville-West family, Juliet Nicolson, opens ‘A House Full of Daughters’. It’s a study of the lives of seven generations of women in her family…