Family rivalries will be reopened during an afternoon of running and chugging on Easter Monday at Hedley on the Hill in Northumberland. The village near Stocksfield is holding its annual Barrel Race, where 15 teams will each lug a nine-gallon barrel of ...
''Dearest mother and father, I expect this will be the last mail before Christmas,'' wrote Sergeant Thomas Hedley Hill from England in October 1916 to his family in Australia. ''I only wish that I was there,'' he wrote, adding he hoped to be home by ...