News

A FORMER baker has been jailed for five years and four months for grooming a 15-year-old girl.David Lionel Baker, formerly...

A RENOWNED botanist has joined forces with a local photographer to produce a pocketbook of upper Teesdale's wild flowers.The Wild...

A WATER utility company has denied a faulty drain is to blame for foul water leaking onto Cockfield Fell.Some residents...

A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to help buy a piece of life-changing equipment for a disabled Teesdale youngster.Five-year-old Teddy...

This week's Teesdale Mercury is out now and it leads with news that HGVs may be banned from Toft Hill,...

A WIDOW has branded the state of a dale cemetery "disrespectful" after finding tyre marks near her late husband's grave.Plots...

THE approach to Barnard Castle cemetery is to be repaired following complaints about potholes and mud.A pile of undersoil and...

THE sister of a young dale farmer and motocross rider who died in a tragic accident on the track has...

THE arrival of a large signpost "better suited to the A1" has dismayed businesspeople in Barnard Castle.An antiques trader on...

CHURNED up grass on ancient village greens have triggered a parish council to look for solutions.Gainford's village greens, near the...