Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We marched in

For soldiers the moment of surrender on the battlefield is one of the most dangerous moments in war, with death a likely outcome. After successfully surrendering, however, soldiers were quickly transformed into prisoners of war and were marched or transported by railway or ship to camps deep within enemy occupied country.