May 18, 2026
Blogs
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Church gig for Northern Voices
NORTHERN Voices will perform a concert in Teesdale this month. The choir, who carry on from…
Children come up with fundraising…
CHILDREN from St Mary’s Primary School, in Barnard Castle, were treated to a visit by a…
Brew Monday banishes the January…
BUSINESS people at Enterprise House, in Barnard Castle, fended off the dreariness of “blue Monday” last…
Bush-tucker trial helps firefighters
A COFFEE afternoon with a difference at Middleton-in-Teesdale Primary School raised £675 for fire-fighters who have…
True beasts – paintings that…
Museum Musings In an occasional column, Dorothy Blundell takes a personal sideways look at what goes…
One in a million’ illness…
A FIT and active grandad died from a disease for which there is no known cause…
In this week’s Mercury
Headlines in this week’s newspaper: Damage caused to yet another historic dale bridge sparks calls for…
Last-ditch effort to halt house…
A LAST-MINUTE attempt to stop planning approval for a new home in Barnard Castle by producing…
Housing plan objectors out in…
NOT one resident who attended a public meeting into plans for 74 homes was in favour…
Pair put popular upper dale…
THE owners of a popular upper dale cafe have put their business up for sale after…
Putting focus on part of…
A HERITAGE group has been formed to ensure part of the historic Darlington and Stockton Railway…
England star’s humble start with…
A FORMER Barnard Castle resident enjoyed a trip down memory lane after reading the autobiography of…
