Teesdale_Mercury
The Teesdale Mercury is a family-owned rural weekly newspaper in County Durham in the United Kingdom, which has been published since 1854.[1][2][3][4] It is based in the town of Barnard Castle, and has printing facilities there, which were used to print the paper until it switched to colour in 2015.[1][5] The paper, along with its sister publication the Wear Valley Mercury, are owned by Lord Barnard.[5]