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JUST getting on with it and having respect for other people is the secret to a successful marriage say an...

I AN often asked which species of bird is my favourite. Avocets, which are now breeding successfully at Smallways Wetland,...

TEESDALE can cash in on the 200th anniversary of the opening of the world's first public steam railway, says a...

THE Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, or RABI for short, has been around for 159 years, helping farming people in financial...

The connection between Victorian glass bottles and candles may not be obvious, but to the Askew brothers, it is a...

A photographer who brought the beauty of Teesdale to newspaper and magazine readers across the country for more than a...

BARNARD Castle's oldest butcher's shop marks its centenary this year.Started by a decorated First World War hero, William Peat Butchers...

Little Newsham Forge is tucked away between Staindrop and the A67. Wendy Short went to investigate and found a craftsman...

A Teesdale Mercury reader brought in this photograph of a woman walking across the iced-over River Tees in January 1940. Catherine...

TEESDALE has long been the inspiration for writers both local and further afield.And one long forgotten novel, printed by the...