By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire)
Collection volunteer Paul Wheatley, house clearance manager, was one of those helping St Teresa s Hospice A CHRISTMAS tree collection service has raised more than £14,000 for a hospice. Despite Covid restictions and bad weather, volunteers for St Teresa s Hospice, in Darlington, collected more than 1,400 trees following the festive season. It was the tenth time the hospice has carried out a tree collection service and it managed to pick up almost as many trees as last year, despite fewer vans and volunteers. Communications manager John Paul Stabler said: “We are so grateful for the efforts of volunteers who worked tirelessly in bad weather, which caused some serious delays – even the padlock at the warehouse was frozen solid which meant we couldn’t get in to the vans on