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Welcome... to the April issue of IN&AROUND! It’s been quite the extended winter, hasn’t it?? ‘The Beast From The East’ and ‘The Beast From The East 2’ have left many of us reeling at a time of year when we might have been hoping to catch some rays. Still, we’re finally into the spring and hopefully, it’s only reasonably hospitable weather from here on in.

But if there is still a bit of snow and drizzle where you are, there’s always your fresh new copy of IN&AROUND to leaf through during your enforced time indoors. As always, we’ve got some brilliant features for you, including ideas for places to travel if the conditions hold up, such as Pelton, Darlington (page 36) and Saltburn-by-the-Sea (page 46).

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Failing that, why not head to your nearest cinema to see how the latest gaming-turned-film franchise, Tomb Raider, has shaped up? As our reviewer, Craig Lenaghan found (pages 4243), Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft is very different to Angelina Jolie’s 2000s iteration. Our film reviews continue to be brought to you in association with the brilliant Vue Gateshead.

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Phill Jupitus: Juplicity, The Witham, Barnard Castle Former Never Mind The Buzzcocks captain Phill Jupitus visited Durham’s Gala Theatre in November with his latest stand-up show. Still, if you missed it, he’s re-staging it in Barnard Castle this month. Expect Phill to recall elements of his “chaotic” life, including his daughter Molly’s gay marriage; the trope of gay marriage is “very much in vogue at the minute”, Phill has remarked. He’ll be at The Witham on 21st April.

Hexham Book Festival While County Durham has its own prestigious book festival, that won’t be returning until October. In the meantime, Hexham will be welcoming plenty of big-name writers for its own literary festival running from 26th April until 6th May. Harriet Harman, Evan Davis and Jeremy Vine are among this year’s speakers set to discuss such topical issues as Brexit, Russia and the scourge of “fake news”.

Bishop Auckland Food Festival Foodies are about to see the return of one of County Durham’s tastiest yearly traditions: Bishop Auckland Food Festival! A wide array of traders and producers will gather to show off their products at the market place near the town hall – and the star chefs turning up this year will include This Morning regular Phil Vickery and former The Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown. It’s all happening on 21st to 22nd April.

Maker Faire UK, Life Science Centre, Newcastle In the States, Maker Faire has long been helping amateur inventors to show off their creations – and the UK version of Maker Faire has become a yearly tradition in Newcastle. At the time of writing, Maker Faire UK has not yet released its programme for the 2018 outing; however, you can expect over 300 DIYers, hackers, coders and other creative types to descend on Life Science Centre for the weekend of 28th to 29th April.

Queen Victoria in Paris, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle Thanks to the recent success of ITV period drama Victoria, there has been renewed interest in the 19thcentury queen’s early life and reign. In 1855, she spent time in Paris – as a guest of the then Emperor of the French, Napoléon III – on a state visit. This historic occasion was captured in 51 watercolours currently on display in this exhibition, which will run until 24th June.

Westworld, Sky Atlantic The sci-fi thriller series Westworld debuted in 2016 and quickly impressed both viewers and critics with its plotting, visuals and performances. However, as creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy know well, Westworld also incorporates Wild West elements in adapting Michel Crichton’s 1973 film.

The show is set in a future with a Westworld theme park that lets its visitors sample an immersive simulation of the Wild West. This simulation takes place in Sweetwater, a frontier town populated by “hosts”, human-resembling androids whose memories are wiped each day. However, as some of the hosts become self-aware, this doesn’t bode well for the future of the park…

The second series will start airing on 23rd April, at 2am on Sky Atlantic. That’s when the show is getting simulcast with the US; however, Sky Atlantic will also later repeat it at 9pm that day.

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GET SET TO BLOSSOM IN NATIONAL GARDEN MONTH Now’s the time to get back into your garden – and not just because the warmth and brightness of spring are here. This month is National Garden Month, giving you another excuse to start sorting out your foliage or even get some new plants.

However, sprucing up a garden isn’t just about making it look pretty; by taking up gardening, you can also grow your own food and even improve your health and lifestyle.

What is National Garden Month, anyway?

If you’ve never previously heard of National Garden Month, it’s probably because it’s largely an American thing. The United States’ National Garden Bureau and 23 cosponsoring national horticultural organisations were instrumental in legislating what was initially National Garden Week. On 18th April 1986, the Proclamation was signed by the then-President, Ronald Reagan, leading to the first celebration of National Garden Week from 12th to 18th April 1987.

However, in the early 21st century, the celebration was extended to cover the whole of April – on the initiative of the National Gardening Association. The first National Garden Month was in 2003; however, despite its American origins, it’s clear to see that there are plenty of green-fingered types on this side of the Atlantic who would love to join in with the fun.

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Gardeners and researchers can vouch for many benefits of nurturing plants. Those benefits include improving attitudes to health and nutrition, fostering community spirit, and even helping children to excel at school. However, if you doubt the merits even now, consider the stories of people who have decided to basically make gardening their life.

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Those people include the ‘80s pop star Kim Wilde. In 2015, she recalled that, despite having clocked up platinum records and toured Europe with Michael Jackson, she was “always plagued with anxiety and it badly affected my mental health.” However, Kim, who won a gold medal for a Chelsea Flower Show garden in 2005, enthused that gardening “has been great therapy for me and can help people get back on top of things when it feels like life is veering out of control.”

Meanwhile, the former Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin is now an urban gardener who grows fruit and vegetables in her California garden. She has cited gardening channels and YouTube as resources that have inspired her own gardening adventures – but you shouldn’t consider only those if you want to start gardening for the first time.

Some quick tips for gardening success During a 2014 interview, Wilde recommended that beginner gardeners “start small” – even if they just “sow a seed” in “a little pot”. Not too little, though; otherwise, as Coughlin warns, the pot could prevent roots significantly growing and also can’t contain a lot of water, resulting in stunted plants.

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Bishop Auckland Food Festival is back – bigger and better than ever before.

The free festival is one of the leading food events in the North East and will welcome thousands of visitors when it returns on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 April.

Stretching across Bishop Auckland Market Place, the festival promises a great day out for all the family, with something to suit all ages and appetites.

Visitors will be tempted with tasty dishes from across the world, while some of the best artisan food producers will be showcasing their award-winning goods.

If all the delicious food leaves you feeling inspired, there’s plenty of opportunity to learn from some of the country’s top chefs.

Phil Vickery will share his advice on how to get a balanced diet without skimping on flavour, while Bake Off winner Candice Brown and finalist Jane Beedle will bring their show-stopping style to the festival’s Cookery Theatre.

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Visitors can also learn some creative cooking tips, with a range of workshops led by The School of Artisan Food.

Adult workshops, including sausage making and cheese making, cost £5 and must be booked in advance via the website.

Budding young chefs can also get a slice of the action for £1, with ice-cream making and dough-ball making among others. Visit the marquee on arrival to book.

The festival is easily accessible from across County Durham and will operate a park and ride service from Bishop Auckland College on Woodhouse Lane, with regular buses from 9.45am.

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ON YOUR BIKE! ENJOY THE LOCAL AREA ON TWO WHEELS We certainly live in a stunning part of the country; County Durham has no shortage of rural beauty and awesome architecture, and that’s before we even stop to consider that the area is sandwiched between Tyneside and Yorkshire, which have plenty of great attractions of their own.

However, what you might not have so readily realised is that getting around such places can be much more hassle-free on a bike. Here are some especially good reasons to take up cycling…

It’s a route! Where you can cycle in County Durham Key to the appeal of cycling in County Durham is the wide choice of routes that you can take while on your bike. Although we don’t have the space to list them all here, we would eagerly single out the 100-mile Teesdale Way – along the River Tees from source to sea – and Link up the Loops, a largely offroad route running for 25 miles between Consett and Chester-le-Street.

If you fancy cycling beyond our county’s borders, we also recommend the C2C Cycle Route, socalled as it can take you from “sea to sea” – from Whitehaven or Workington on the Cumbrian coast, right through to Sunderland on the eastern coast.

This is one of the UK’s most popular cycle routes.

Smash fit: get into better shape by cycling You can also squeeze cycling into more routine aspects of your life, like getting to and from work – and to say that it can make you fitter would be putting it mildly.

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Don’t skip a proper equip: useful items for cycling Obviously, before you can start cycling, you will need a bike. Any good working one will suffice for short journeys; however, if you want to use an old or second-hand bike, consider getting it serviced for roadworthiness first. You will also need a helmet for your own safety.

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Gym, be the best: if you can’t cycle outdoors There might be occasions when you don’t want to cycle outdoors; for example, because the weather looks too brutal. However, gym classes of various forms can benefit cyclists.

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York in the road: eagerly anticipating the Tour de Yorkshire Do you love watching others cycling? This year’s Tour de Yorkshire runs from Thursday 3rd May until Sunday 6th May. While this cycling race competition only started in 2015, last year’s event drew an estimated 9.7 million broadcast viewers, while more than 2 million spectators lined the route. Leeds, Scarborough, Doncaster and Barnsley are among the places the cyclists will visit this year.

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The High Crown hits first milestone after completing their first phase of renovations.

After taking over the High Crown on Front Street Chester le Street in September 2017, Charlene and her dedicated team have spent the last six months making huge improvements to the pub. 4 weeks ago the first phase of refurbishment was completed in the Bar, and lounge area this included new seating, flooring, bar top and redecoration. In addition, a new Smart dispense system has been installed in the cellar with new modern pumps on the bar. This huge investment results in a colder fresher pint of beer, lager or cider unrivalled in Chester le Street which you can enjoy in a modern, clean environment.

There’s always plenty going on in the High Crown • Live Sky Sports and horse Racing 7 Days a week • Live Music from our Buskers every Wednesday night from 7.30 • Karaoke/ Disco every Thu & Sun - 9 till Late • Sunday is Play your Cards right tickets £1.00 game starts 8pm • Dance the night away Fridays and Saturdays with the resident DJ - 9 till Late • Coffee and tea being served and toasties available daily.

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CRAZY FOR YOU

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King Coal, Pelton The village of Pelton is, it would be fair to say, rather unassuming. Home to just over 8,000 people and lying a couple of miles northwest of Chester-le-Street, it might be best known by some people as the birth town of Alan White, the longtime drummer in progressive rock band Yes. However, it’s also where 19th-century trade union chief Thomas Hepburn was born in 1795 – and his upbringing as a coal miner begins to hint at why you should give Pelton a closer look.

Pelton even used to have its own train station, which was in operation for passengers from 1894 until 1955.

Admittedly, it was Pelton’s train station largely just in name, being physically nearer the similarly-named village of Pelton Fell; besides, if you head to the site of the station today, you will see very little even suggesting that a station ever stood there.

Nonetheless, if you journey towards the end of this site in the direction of South Pelaw, you could soon see… a giant head! That’s probably the best way of summarising its look, anyway; it’s a structure with an elaborate design akin to that of a head statue built by New Zealand’s indigenous Polynesian civilisation of the Māori.

However, it is actually an art installation designed by the artist David Kemp.

A stonemason and local volunteers physically put together the structure, which comprises stone from a bridge that once crossed Consett railway station, itself – like the Pelton station – now long gone. The completion of King Coal was coincidentally reached on 15th October 1992 – the same day the closure of Durham’s few remaining coalfield pits was announced. We can’t help but think that, to this day, it makes a very fitting – and visually striking – tribute to the area’s coal-mining past.

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Darlington Hippodrome You might remember, last year, hearing or reading stories of a theatre called the Darlington Hippodrome opening to the public. However, this wasn’t a new theatre; it was, in fact, formerly Darlington Civic Theatre! It had closed in May 2016 for an extensive restoration project that cost £13.7m and lasted for 18 months.

The improvements to the theatre you may previously remember – and where you might even have seen some shows – include the addition of a three-storey glass atrium comprising the main entrance and box office. It’s now also possible to take lifts to all of the auditorium’s seating levels – and we wouldn’t be surprised to see those lifts heavily used, especially given that the capacity has been extended from 900 to over 1,000. This and a new fly system have made the venue suitable for bigger productions.

The project has also seen the restoration of the Edwardian auditorium – an especially endearing part of the venue that first opened in 1907, towards the end of King Edward VII’s reign.

Back then, the theatre was actually called the New Hippodrome and Palace Theatre of Varieties – and, with its historical features now beautifully restored, the return of the “Hippodrome” reference to its name seems wonderfully appropriate.

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FILM REVIEW

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he new Tomb Raider film - starring, of course, young archaeologist Lara Croft could have seemed (ahem) entombed to failure.

This game-to-cinema franchise hasn’t been dug up (see what we did there?) for a while, and understandably so, considering how the only two other instalments shaped up. The Angelina Jolie films of the Noughties were basically all hype and no trousers, skimpy or otherwise. It wasn’t long before HMV bargain bins across the country hoovered up DVD copies of both films like quicksand that their lead character would usually be eager to jump straight across.

With the 21st century having seen Christopher Nolan and Daniel Craig help to modernise respectively the previously campy Batman and Bond franchises with more grit, the time did seem ripe for Tomb Raider to get the same treatment. This film’s Lara isn’t the same as the one that adorned bottles of Lucozade in the 1990s; it’s the more intellectually stimulating Croft of the critically acclaimed 2013 reboot of the game series. Presumably in line with this more down-to-earth approach, the filmmakers have jettisoned Brad Pitt’s ex in favour of young Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander.

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in portraying an in-depth personality for Lara.

In a Batman Begins-style origin story, Lara is scrimping and saving in London while struggling to believe the news that her archaeologist father Lord Richard Croft, played in flashbacks with charming paternal affection by The Wire’s Dominic West, has supposedly died during an adventure abroad. Lara’s disbelief leads her to head off to try to find him.

There’s no doubt that Vikander has physically thrown herself into the role. Some of the more intense action set-pieces, including Lara’s near-death escapes from first a rollicking boat and then a discarded and disintegrating plane, feel like Terminator action scenes seamlessly transplanted into a jungle realm. Norwegian director Roar Uthaug also throws in some light relief courtesy of Nick Frost as a wisecracking pawn shop owner. Walton Goggins’ villain – Mathias Vogel, an archaeologist rival of Lara’s father – is one of the less effective characters, being something of a charisma vacuum.

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Nonetheless, it’s refreshing to see so many elements that firmly ground the story in reality. You shouldn’t expect the excessive silliness that plagued the National Treasure films – and, unlike them, this Tomb Raider outing gets a more immediately likeable lead than a wooden Nicolas Cage. This particular film probably still isn’t original enough to warrant the sequel it blatantly teases; however, given that the archaeologist adventure genre can feel old like the relics for which Lara hunts, it remains perhaps as solid a cinematic Tomb Raider reboot as we are likely to get right now.

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SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time - T. S. Eliot I began this series in 2002 in a single publication with an article on Saltburn, then the destination of most southbound trains from Chester-le-Street. Indeed, for many years we had a staff summer outing to this town of 6,000, one of the first railway resorts.

In 1858, while walking along the coast path towards Old Saltburn to visit his brother Joseph in Marske, the railway builder Henry Pease saw a prophetic vision of a town arising on the cliff and the quiet, unfrequented and sheltered glen turned into a lovely garden. The Pease family owned Middlesbrough Estate and had control of the Stockton and Darlington Railway which first opened in 1825. The S&DR agreed to develop Henry’s vision by forming the Saltburn Improvement Company (SIC) and the railway line was extended to the town in 1861.

Land was purchased from the Earl of Zetland, and the company commissioned surveyor George Dickinson to lay out what became an interpretation of a gridiron street layout, through which the railway ran to the very centre, now Station Square. With as many houses as possible having sea views, the layout was added to by the so-called Jewel streets along the seafront—Coral, Garnet, Ruby, Emerald, Pearl, Diamond and Amber Streets, said to be a legacy of Henry’s vision.

The town was developed by the railway company and the SIC, and after securing the best positions for development, money was raised for construction by selling plots to private developers and investors. Most buildings are constructed using ‘Pease’ brick, transported from Darlington by the S&DR, with the name Pease set into the brick. The jewel in Henry Pease’s crown is said to have been The Zetland Hotel with a private platform into which carriages could be shunted, still visible to this day behind the apartment block into which the original Hotel has changed.

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I last visited Saltburn on 5th March as the thaw was melting the previous week’s heavy snowfall with my stepdaughter Melissa. We went for a wander round the clifftop, delighted in the architecture of the town centre, and found a tiny and rarely open vintage shop called Polyester. We enjoyed an excellent lunch in Coco and Rum, a Thai restaurant on the south side of Station Square, where we both had a good lunch including drinks and coffee for £31.75. The coconut soup with chicken was delicious.

Saltburn is famous for its pier, illustrated, and the Cliff Lift that rises south from the pier to the top of the town, saving a walk up or down the steep hill. Or it would if it were operational, but at the moment the two lift cars are away for repair. Each car on its separate track counter-balances the other with the descending car given extra weight to raise up the ascending car by use of water in a tank. For regular visitors it looks quite odd to see the inclined railway with no passenger cars, but I am told they will be back in operation for the summer season.

Trains run to Saltburn on the line from Middlesbrough and Darlington (twice an hour daytimes) and Bishop Auckland (hourly). Connections are available from Durham, Chesterle-Street, Newcastle and Cramlington at Darlington, and from Sunderland at Middlesbrough. Day returns are available from most stations in the north-east. The original station building is no longer used as such – trains terminate just to the left of the picture instead.

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