FROM this newspaper 100 years ago. - On Thursday the Hurworth Hounds met at Welbury, where there was a capital muster. A brace of foxes were soon raised and the hounds settled down to the scent of one which went at a rattling pace around Harlsey, where the fugitive doubled back to the left and he then turned to the right and ran to Arncliffe Woods, going right through the wood on the moor behind. This gained him a little breathing time when it went straight for Osmotherley and eventually gave his pursuers the slip near Wark Mill. The run was of about two hours' duration and the pace was fast from start to finish. During the run, Mr C T Atkinson of Northallerton, in leaping a gate, was brought a nasty "cropper" by the horse catching the top bar. His left knee was somewhat injured.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. - Miss Betty Chester, Britain's Railway Queen, will visit Darlington today and tomorrow during a tour of the North-East. She is due to arrive at Darlington from Durham today and will be met by Mr J B Figgins, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, who is to address meetings in the town during the weekend. Tomorrow, Miss Chester will be in Darlington, Stockton, Yarm and Shildon, to inspect relics of early railway history. At Shildon she will be taken to the old works, the railway institute and the Timothy Hackworth memorial and cottage, and Shildon railwaymen are to give a lunch in her honour. Afterwards, she will come back to Darlington on the way to her home in Chesterfield.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - An elderly Scotch crossed Suffolk ewe on a North Yorkshire farm has earned herself a place in the veterinary history books. The unnamed eight-year-old ewe has had a hard five weeks. It began when her owner Mr Dennis Black, of Highfield House Farm, two miles from Bedale on the Thornton Watlass to Snape road, noticed the ewe's lamb bed had appeared. He called in his veterinary surgeon who stitched it back, and two weeks later she produced a set of twins, but one was dead at birth. Mr Black said: "Three weeks later my farm man came in to tell me she was discharging again and when we called the vet she produced another pair of twins.