This week’s paper is out now:
A dale headteacher is leaving to help balance the books and safeguard her school’s future.
Keep my Olympic dream alive: Middleton’s Alan Toward needs £10,000 to cover bobsleigh costs after a cut in funding.
MP blasts health chiefs over out-of-hours service axe.
Outrage as WW2 veteran’s vehicle is 'unfairly' clamped – the DVLA relented after the Mercury intervened.
Signed Liverpool FC shirt to be auctioned.
Pictures from Middleton-in-Teesdale school and nursery, along with snaps from Woodland school’s father’s day.
Roger Moore’s TV Roll Royce is being rebuilt in Barney.
Failings at Whorlton Hall were kept secret, say MPs.
Suzanne Thomas takes the reins of vintage fair in memory of her mother, Marie Yarker.
Prison officer is allowed to keep his job despite unprovoked attack in Startforth.
Pictures from Cotherstone carnival
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