Buckle up… the funfair may be coming to Barney this bank holiday – even though there is no Meet weekend this year
Cotherstone residents are being asked to buy into ambitious £200,000 plans to convert the village’s disused Methodist chapel into a cafe, shop and heritage centre
Wetheriggs animal shelter has unveiled plans for a £20,000 rehalbilitation centre at its base
Tributes have been paid to county councillor Stephen Hugill, who died earlier this month aged 80
Children at a Barney school have been praised for carrying out 100 acts of kindness in memory of Capt Tom Moore…
…And Capt Tom Moore was the inspiration for OAP Ann Woodward to complete 100 laps of Whorlton village green
A keen walker is campaigning to restore access to a largely forgotten dale beauty spot – Crag Force, in Deepdale
A new programme of theatre and music aims to bring the dale’s village halls back to life
A dale farm which turned to tourism after the sale of eggs became unviable is celebrating 40 years of welcoming caravanners
In sport, Barnard Castle CC’s first XI won their first game of the season while Lands CC continued their good start to the campaign.
We’ve also the latest, golf, football, rugby and athletics news
Plus… How long-gone gasworks powered Barney for more than a century in a two-page Remember When feature; a bumper selection of readers’ letters; Bob Garton’s weekly quiz; family announcements and much more, all in this week’s paper, out now
