VOLUNTEERS descended on Barnard Castle’s lower Demesnes to pull out poisonous weeds.The small group of the town’s volunteer workers uprooted several dumpy bags of noxious ragwort in an effort to…

BY GEOFF MILBURN ONE of my ancestors named Merryweather was a Barney stonemason, one of the large gang of men hard at work on the great edifice which became The…

Hoards of historical photographs and documents have gone online for the first time thanks to a new website produced by Evenwood, Ramshaw and District History Society. Reporter Martin Paul spoke…

In an occasional column, Dorothy Blundell considers a different angle on three angel paintings in the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer IF you were asked…