Hannah Chapman

England

Editor at Darlington & Stockton Times

Weeklies Editor at The Northern Echo

Yorkshirewoman, editor Darlington & Stockton Times, Northern Farmer & North Advertisers, hockey player, tea lover, farmers' daughter [email protected]

Articles

Why this bakery and deli helps make the case for town's foodie status

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

I can make no judgement on Malton's culinary qualities, having never eaten out there – unless you count half a hot cross bun that I gathered outside Thomas the Baker while stuck in traffic during a Good Friday giveaway a few years ago. I would make a case for another contender for the title – Stokesley. For a town of its size, it's definitely punching above its weight in terms of the number and quality of eating establishments located there.
Bird flu case confirmed in poultry in County Durham as protection zone set up

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

The news comes weeks after the government lifted the national mandatory housing order for kept birds. Defra said yesterday (Tuesday, June 17) that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 had been confirmed in poultry near Stanhope. A 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone has been declared around the premises. These zones impose strict movement restrictions and enhanced biosecurity protocols for other poultry keepers in the area.
Readers' pictures: Moorland curlews caught on camera

1 week ago | darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

15 1/1 Some great photos of curlews on the moor-tops dominate this week's readers' pictures. To see your images on these pages, email [email protected] including your name and where the picture was taken, or submit them online by going to www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/send-us-your-news.
‘Thwarted at every turn’: Report into sea life deaths slams Government co-operation

2 weeks ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

Councillor Philip Thomson (Image: LDRs) A report by councillors into an incident which saw a mass wash-up of dead crustaceans on North-East beaches has criticised a lack of co-operation from Government agencies. Councillor Philip Thomson, who chaired the working group behind the report, said the significant die-offs first discovered in Redcar and Saltburn in October 2021 had been “unprecedented in its magnitude”.
Readers' pictures: Sunshine, birdlife and dales views

2 weeks ago | darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

15 1/1 Sunshine, birdlife and dales views dominate this week's readers' pictures. To see your photos on these pages, email [email protected] including your name and where the picture was taken, or submit them online by going to www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/send-us-your-news.
Readers' pictures: Bright and beautiful buttercup meadows

3 weeks ago | darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

15 1/1 Bright and beautiful buttercup meadows are starting to shine in this week's readers' pictures. To see your photos on these pages, email [email protected] including your name and where the picture was taken, or submit them online by clicking here.
We went for breakfast a prison-run cafe and found no-frills good at a great price

4 weeks ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

In the Chapman household, a heartier breakfast than the fridge or cupboard could provide was called for, to help shake off some bleariness from a night spent reliving our musical youth at the Redcar Beach Live festival. The bleariness came, I might add, not from alcohol (£20-worth of drinks tokens got my sister and I just three beverages between us) but from watching bands for several hours while an eye-watering gale blew straight in off the North Sea.
Arts and entertainment centre celebrates 50th anniversary and looks to the future

4 weeks ago | darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

The Forum, in Northallerton, started life in 1975 as a council-owned Community Centre. A small group of supporters came together in 2012 who went on to become the board of trustees, with a view to giving the Forum a more sustainable future. The venue, which also became a registered charity, has gone from strength to strength, and board members have been joined by a small group of staff and many dedicated volunteers in leading operations.
Search is on for the D&S reader with the best garden

4 weeks ago | darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

2 1/1 The D&S Times is launching a search for the best readers’ garden in our patch, writes editor Hannah Chapman. Gardens mean different things to different people. For some, it’s a private oasis, for others, functional outdoor living space or somewhere for the children or grandchildren to let off steam.
Exhibition at Great Yorkshire Show to celebrate the Wensleydale Sheep

1 month ago | thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Hannah Chapman

Wensleydale sheep are recognisable for their large frame and heavy fleece of long locks and are a popular fixture in the sheep rings at the Great Yorkshire Show. Now, both the heritage and modern-day story of the Yorkshire breed will be told in a dedicated new exhibition at the 166th show. The Wensleydale traces its lineage back to a single sire born in 1839 in the Yorkshire Dales, but the breed was as-yet-unnamed when it was first given its own class at the Great Yorkshire Show in 1876.