This week’s Teesdale Mercury is on sale now: Hundreds sign up to save Startforth community centre (petition is in our shop at 24 Market Place, Barnard Castle) Teesdale will be…

THE Bowes Museum will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its iconic Silver Swan this year – but will the automaton be fixed in time or even work again?The automaton remains…

Ian Lamming takes the lid off the VW T-Roc Cabriolet IT’S a sad fact of life that as we get older we get thicker in the middle, stiffer in the…

In an occasional column, Dorothy Blundell considers a different angle on three angel paintings in the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer IF you were asked…