Rob Law explores the tradition of football matches taking place on Christmas Day.
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The Forgotten Festive Fixtures
The Vulcan Bomber that crashed in Wingate
The Northern Echo's Chris Lloyd tells the tale of the bomber that crashed in 1975.
Darlington's lion taming pioneer
Gary Philipson tells the story for Frank C Bostock, the world's first lion tamer.
Lewis Carroll's Tees Wonderland
Amy Oakden tells the story of how Lewis Carroll may have been inspired by Croft-on-Tees.
The Middlesbrough Meteorite
The strange event that changed Middlesbrough's streets and caught the attention of NASA.
The stranger who saved Darlington
Chris Lloyd tells the story of William Stuart McMullen, whose sacrifice saved the town.
