Following Labour’s victory at the recent election local historian David Croom has been looking into the history of the Barnard Castle MP who was one of Labour’s founding members LABOUR have…

FIVE years ago Whorlton Bridge was closed to vehicles. A report of damage to the structure led to an inspection by Durham County Council engineers who deemed it unsafe. In…

Sparked by last month’s 80th anniversary of D-Day, Mary Stastny recalls a Barnard Castle man, Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Henderson and found the Imperial War Museum had recorded his memoir. It makes…

When a Methodist chapel in rural Teesdale was put up for sale, villagers banded together to repurpose it as a vibrant heart of their community. Five years on, they have…