NEWSAGENTS across the Tyne Valley have done a sterling job in keeping communities in the know during the coronavirus pandemic and its successive lockdowns. We asked readers of the Hexham Courant online to share their favourites to shine a light on the businesses’ work. PEGGS, HEXHAM Angela Scott recommend Peggs as her go to for newspapers, magazines and confectionary. Cookes News and Peggs News have been at the heart of Hexham town centre for generations and while they were originally independent businesses, they have been working in tandem since the 1990s. Director Ian Hunter took over Cookes, in Meal Market, back in 1994, and got the keys for Peggs, on Priestpopple, four years later.