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STAFF and volunteers laid on a warm welcome for visitors when Barnard Castle's arts centre reopened for business last week.Although...

Making the news in this week's Mercury:Pubs across the dale have been warned not to flout Covid-19 rules, otherwise they...

WORSHIPPERS are celebrating after receiving funding to complete a ten-year project to save their 13th century church.St Andrew's Church, Winston,...

THE launch of a dark-sky observatory in Teesdale has been a success with people making multiple bookings, say the organisers.The...

A STALWART Star Cobbler who hung up his boots at the start of lockdown has told how a temporary job...

RESIDENTS of upper Teesdale were shocked to learn of plans for an emergency road closure only four days before it...

BEDSITS for beetles, apartments for ants and flats for flies - houses for bugs came in all shapes and sizes...

BARNARD Castle parish church's organist has won a competition which has led to one of her songs being published for...

A BARNARD Castle golf pro has handed over £1,000 to the Friends of Richardson Hospital after organising several fundraising events.Darren...

THE "deplorable" state of benches in a rural parish has been brought to the attention of county officials.Mickleton Parish Council...