OFF TO SEA: Sunderland-built HMS Opal, which sank 100 years ago
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DLI SOMME DIARY
Tony Kearney tells what the Durham Pals - volunteer soldiers from across the region - were doing 100 years ago, in the build-up to their date with destiny: July 1, 1916, and the Battle of the Somme.
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INTERACTIVE WW1 JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN ECHO ARCHIVES
Nick Gullon has been through The Northern Echo archives, selecting a story from each day of 1915, painting a vivid of picture of what life was like on the home front as well as in the trenches, and creating an interactive journey through the war years.
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SEARCH DATABASE OF SOLDIER RECORDS
Search our database of over 1,800 soldiers from the region who fought and died in the First World War.
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SCHOOLS' POETRY COMPETITION
In 2014, we appealed to all secondary schools in the region to ask their pupils to write a poem to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Read their poems here
HELP RAISE £100,000 FOR OUR HEROES
An appeal to raise £100,000 for the modern military heroes - those servicemen and women who return physically and mentally injured from war zones such as Afghanistan.
Find out more here