A County Durham road is set to close for 10 days for resurfacing work, the council announced in a public notice. Seaside Lane in Easington Colliery will be closed in two sections: from its junction ...

In May 1993, a landmark of the County Durham coast closed for good. In May 1993, ... Easington Colliery Brass Band: 30 years after the pit closure- meet the band who is keeping its memory alive.

Access to the beach at Easington Colliery has been closed and the steps blocked off with a barrier. It comes as temperatures in the North East have been rising, causing last week’s snow and ice ...

Easington Colliery closed in May 1993. Local people say the jobs lost have never been replaced - and their community is struggling. | ITV News Tyne Tees ...

Twenty years ago, the pit at Easington Colliery, County Durham, closed, and on Wednesday former miners will hold a commemoration party to mark the anniversary. The pit brass band will play.

Closure-threatened Easington Colliery Methodist Church is now said to be a "thriving" community hub. ... "If nobody had taken it on it would have closed and left a blight on the community," she said.

Thirty years after the colliery closed, Easington Welfare Centre - or "The Welly" - still has regular events, such as dance groups, bingo and pool. It offered support to local residents in the ...

Easington Colliery eventually closed on 7 May 1993, with hundreds of jobs lost. Forty years on from the miners' strike, the pit site has since become a park, but the legacy lingers.

When Whitwell's butchers in Easington Colliery on the County Durham coast closed unexpectedly this week it left many in the village concerned about money they'd already paid for orders that hadn't ...

Billy left Easington Colliery before it closed in 1993. He was 46 years old. Still living in the former pit village of Thornley, he remembered how clean the area became.

On a hilltop above the former site of Easington Colliery stands a pit cage, a stark monument to a vanished life – 83 years of mining coal. Nearby, the words of a "Bevin Boy", one of thousands of ...

Thirty years after the colliery closed, Easington Welfare Centre - or "The Welly" - still has regular events, such as dance groups, bingo and pool. It offered support to local residents in the ...