Esh Winning Miners

South Shields blow away Esh Winning for a perfect 10

South Shields were dominant as they moved five points clear at the top of Northern League Division Two by thumping Esh Winning 4-0 on Saturday. It was a 10th win in a row for the Mariners – with nine clean sheets in that sequence – and the thr

Miners memorial ends long journey to take place in ex-pit village

Amid warm September sunshine, a life-size sculpture of a miner and his family was lowered onto a sandstone plinth in front of interested villagers in Esh Winning, near Durham. It was the end of a 9,000-mile journey for the black granite monume