This week’s Teesdale Mercury is on sale now: Hundreds sign up to save Startforth community centre (petition is in our shop at 24 Market Place, Barnard Castle) Teesdale will be…

THE Bowes Museum will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its iconic Silver Swan this year – but will the automaton be fixed in time or even work again?The automaton remains…

In an occasional column, Dorothy Blundell considers a different angle on three angel paintings in the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer IF you were asked…

THE presence of non-native crayfish in the Tees waters used by members of Barnard Castle Angling Club could be providing an unexpected spin-off.Club chairman Gareth Hinchcliffe told fellow anglers at…