Farm makes way for new woodland

An area of farmland between Durham and Hetton-le-Hole is to be transformed into a woodland.

The 82-hectare extension to Elemore Woods was bought by the Woodland Trust in January after a campaign raised £1.35m.

The land has been used for farming but will be planted with more than 90,000 native broadleaf trees to be called White Hill Woods, part of a continuous area of woodland stretching 2.5 miles between Easington Lane in Tyne and Wear and South Hetton to Littletown, Co Durham.