A memorial has been dedicated to a community-minded Aycliffe Angel who lived most of her life in a village near Darlington.

The family of Kathleen Walls, who died two years ago, have replaced the original railings at Hurworth Village Hall in her memory.

The railings are an exact replica of the ones melted down to make armaments in the Second World War.

As an Aycliffe Angel, she carried out the dangerous wartime work of making munitions.

Sons Don, John, Barry and Ken, and daughter Margaret, approached the village hall committee, who supported the idea, before having the railings disigned and made from pre-war photographs.

Born and brought up in Hurworth, where her parents were caretakers at the village hall, Kathleen married Wilf and lived most of her life in the village, apart from a period during which she lived in Glasgow.

Don, who lives in Hurworth, said the family had wanted to put something in the village for their mother, who was very active in the community. He said: "She was a proper character. She was a very nice person, one of the most caring I have ever come across. She was very well-known in the village."