This week's front page
This week's front page

In this week’s edition…

1,000 people get the Covid jab at Richardson Hospital in just three days (we take you inside Teesdale’s new Covid-19 vaccination centre)

Eggleston Christmas lights include an NHS tribute

Flurry of support for planning application for a new housing project in Barney raises eyebrows

Dale unites to produce its own charity version of the Band Aid single

Mountain rescue team offers safety advice to moorland walkers after a spate of callouts

Trust secures thousands of pounds to eradicate invasive plants along the Tees

Cockfield’s headteacher retires after 32 years’ service to the school

Santa makes a surprise visit to Barney primary schools on the back of a vintage tractor

For the first time in 15 years people in Eggleston can visit their own village shop

PLUS: a week of sport, letters, community news and a very different souvenir supplement of how schools held their nativities under coronavirus restrictions!

And much more…