Tony Durrant

Freelance journalist, aspiring fiction writer, and former townie firmly settled on the Cumbria/Yorkshire border as an 'off-comer' trying to decypher Dales life.

Raising a glass to community spirit: the fight to save village pubs

Village pubs are social lifelines for remote rural communities and in the Pennine hills of Northern England a group of dales folk are not taking the threat to their much-loved hostelries lying down.

Crabs, ringers and gates – anyone for a game of quoits?

There's an ancient rural game played in villages across the North Country which has its origins in the mists of time.