MEETING Pearl and Gayle, the first thing you notice are their big brown eyes which peer at you from beneath...

Making the news in a busy week...A hospital at the centre of a care scandal has been sold and could...

In this week's Mercury:Barclays Bank has announced the closure of its branch in Middleton-in-TeesdaleProposals have been drawn up to refurbish...

MORE than 130 vehicles have already booked in for Barney's Classic and Retro Vehicle Show on Sunday.It is the third...

TODYS' weekly Hub Club finished for the summer with a spectacular evening.Teams of youngsters with their parent-carers and volunteers competed...

JUNIOR FootballA LOCAL junior football side has been formed in Cockfield ahead of the new season and is already proving...

Ian Lamming goes on the hunt for dead relatives in the new Lexus RZ450eTO BE honest I nearly left it...

Ian Lamming takes a veritable party bus to a music festival and finds that it strikes a chordNO planning had...

In this week's Mercury:A killer who attacked his victim in her own home is beginning a life sentence in jail...

POLICE are appealing for information after a woman was shot at with an air rifle.The incident happened in Queen Street,...