THE first phase of two projects to reduce metal pollution from abandoned lead and zinc mines near Middleton-in-Teesdale has been...

The inaugural and pilot scheme Grand Teesdale Raffle, organised by Teesdale and District Lions Club has been deemed a great...

On a rainy Sunday December night, more than 140 guests crammed into the GSK Sports and Social Club concert hall...

FOOTBALLWearside LeagueBelmont United FC.............0Barnard Castle FC...............2BARNEY carry some momentum into the Christmas break after a 2-0 victory away to title...

In this week's newspaper:Eight pages of stunning children's nativity picturesCelebration as The Bowes Museum's Silver Swan repairs go like clockworkJanet...

HURTLING down hill on a bicycle, spectacles covered in rain, squinting against the weather, the road ahead looks strange.Almost too...

A POIGNANT anthology of poems, stories and memoirs has been published, the culmination of a year's work by a popular...

YOUNGSTERS at a Barnard Castle primary school answered the call to "deliver joy" to those less fortunate this Christmas by...

Tony Seward looks back at the history of Barnard Castle's most iconic building which has seen a variety of uses...

RUGBYBarnard Castle .................29Ashington .........................31Recent fixtures between these two sides have been keenly contested close-run affairs and this was to prove...