In this week’s Mercury…
Members of Barnard Castle Town Council dismissed the deputy clerk after claiming there had been an irretrievable breakdown in their relationship with her, an employment tribunal was told
Communities across the dale found a different way to commemorate the fallen on Remembrance Sunday – we’ve pictures from around the dale
Renewed calls have been made for the Lower Demesnes, in Barnard Castle, to be fenced off from vehicles after large tracts of grass were torn up in the latest incident of a car doing “doughnuts”
Evenwood’s Randolph community centre is offering free weekly meals for the area’s elderly and vulnerable
New rules will be introduced from next spring for tenants at Gainford’s allotments
The second lockdown could not have come at a worse time for officials and volunteers at the Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre
Parish councillors at Middleton-in-Teesdale are withholding part of the payment for new equipment at a play park due to a number of faults
In sport, Barnard Castle’s tennis players have been in action, while in What’s On we catch up with the ever-busy Mike Bettison
There’s Bob Garton’s latest brainteaser quiz and Dave Moore’s Nature Notes column
Plus… all your family notices, readers’ letters, classified and motors. All in this week’s Mercury, in the shops now
