September 16, 2026
Category : News
GSK bosses reassure staff after redundancies
Bosses at Barnard Castle’s biggest employer have sought to reassure staff following recent redundancies.
Gaunless Valley’s ‘people’s priest’ bids a fond farewell
FROM the battlefields of Iraq and Bosnia to ministering on Cockfield Fell, Revd Brian Whitley, the vicar for the Gaunless Valley, has led an interesting life. Sadly, however, the popular…
Play time has worked!
It’s taken 20 years, but now a village is celebrating a community park which is a testament to volunteers’ dogged dedication, as Nicky Carter reports… COTHERSTONE children’s play park is…
Protesters ‘mourn’ loss of last bank branch
A SMALL group of protestors gathered outside Barclays, in Barnard Castle, last week to “mourn” the closure of the last bank branch in Teesdale. Organised by Chris Foote-Wood, who is…
I never like it when people raise their voice’
CHATTING about moral standards isn’t perhaps the first topic of conversation that would spring to mind when interviewing a comedian. However, when the show in question is called An Evening…
