May 14, 2026
Pupils’ pocket money delivers festive joy to those less fortunate
YOUNGSTERS at a Barnard Castle primary school answered the call to “deliver joy” to those less fortunate this Christmas by donating a raft of gifts. For the fourth-year, homewares retailer…
Narrow defeat in early cracker
RUGBY Barnard Castle ……………..29 Ashington …………………….31 Recent fixtures between these two sides have been keenly contested close-run affairs and this was to prove no exception. In atrocious blustery and wet…
Market Cross or Butter Market?
Tony Seward looks back at the history of Barnard Castle’s most iconic building which has seen a variety of uses including courtroom, gaol, fire station and council meeting placeThere it…
Test Drive: The new VW Amarok
Ian Lamming discovers the winter weather is no match for VW’s latest Amarok PUSHING my bicycle through deep snow my head feels heavy. I put it down to weariness as…














