TEESDALE Operatic Society is retuning to the stage for a third time in less than a year. After the sell-out success of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, followed by…

VILLAGERS in Newsham combined jubilee celebrations with their annual carnival, organising a week of events and activities. The week kicked off with the planting of a tree on the green…

IN a first for the area, a new rector for the lower Teesdale Benefice was installed as the Mercury went to press this week. Revd Canon David Tomlinson was licensed…

COUNTY highways officials say there were plenty of spaces available for visitors to Barnard Castle during the jubilee holiday weekend – despite closing the town’s main car park and the…