A PLETHORA of home-run businesses from around the area will be featured during a Summer Shopping Fair at Barnard Castle...

CAMPAIGNERS dedicated to breathing new life into Barnard Castle are hoping anyone with a camera phone will help with their...

BARNARD Castle CC won the Kerridge Cup on Sunday for the third time in six years. In the 99th final of...

MORE people must help to organise Barnard Castle's annual 1940s weekend, say town councillors who have complained that it is...

ALL the pupils in one year at a dale primary school are celebrating a big achievement.Six pupils in Ingleton Primary...

Making the headlines in this week's Mercury:More than a year after campaigners saved Bede Kirk green from the developers, red...

A YEAR after a fundraising appeal was launched to keep it open, The Witham is reported to be in a...

FRUSTRATION with the criminal justice system has led a Barnard Castle guesthouse owner to hold out an olive branch to...

A SERIES of local history books created for children by children has been launched.The books have been written and illustrated...

OLDER people in the dale are turning to ballet in their droves to improve their health, balance and well-being.What started...