This week’s paper is out now and here are the headlines:
Proposals for Lidl and Home Bargains have taken a knock after police raised road safety concerns due to a “large increase” in traffic.
In the pink: Pictures from Green Lane School’s colour run fun.
D-Day for plans to build 210 homes in Startforth.
Guilty plea after blaze in Middleton-in-Teesdale.
Richardson Hospital out-of-hours cutbacks – huge support for petition.
Teesdale young farmers will scale the heights.
Geriatric and the Pacemakers – meet those behind the band who are rocking the ages.
Couple eloped to get wed in Scotland in 1969 – 50 years later the groom’s mum, 96, makes sure she attends their 50th anniversary bash.
Rise in traveller-related incidents.
Proposals to expand holiday park revealed.
Views sough on proposal to fine teens for entering play park.
Secrecy over Barnard Castle Town Council’s staffing crisis.
Hair shave in honour of friend’s cancer fight
Plus letters, community news, Remember When, five pages of what’s on, five pages of farming and three pages of sport – including a full cricket round up and how a fell runner has raced to the top spot despite getting lost.