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2020 was an unusual and challenging year. It started off quite well. Then we were hit with the worst pandemic in 102 years. Following an increase of Coronavirus cases – COVID-19 – the country went into lockdown in March 2020. The year had started with a great deal of optimism.

It is thought the first COVID-19 case was identified in the UK at the end of January 2020. While it arrived without much fuss, by March 2020 the UK was totally locked down, apart from essential services. On the 2nd February 111,264 deaths had been recorded within 28 days of

In December 2010, a City of London Investor – Jonathan Ruffer – bid £15 million for the life sized paintings of Jacob and his Twelve Sons, hanging in Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. They had been painted by the Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán and came to Bishop Auckland in the