NEIGHBOURING charity shops in the centre of Barnard Castle have welcomed new managers. Sue Littlefair has taken on the Mind shop, in Market Place, while Naila Laundy is the new…

A CONSULTATION into the future of an historic upper dale church was concluded last week. Grade II listed St Mary’s Church, in Middleton-in-Teesdale, has been closed since dry rot was…

MICKLETON held one of its largest carnivals yet during the Queen’s jubilee weekend. For the first time ever, a large marquee was put up housing nine craft stalls, while there…

A LOCAL historian has updated the tale of Startforth’s “doomed field” in his latest publication. Former teacher Geoff Milburn, from Barnard Castle, has produced a limited number of spiral-bound and…