Teesdale Mercury

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Teesdale Mercury
Type Weekly newspaper
Founded1854
Website https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/

The Teesdale Mercury is a 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 (now closed), was owned by Lord Barnard. [5]

In 2024 the paper was sold to Andy Barr, owner of the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, Keswick Reminder and the Cumbria Crack website. [6]

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6. https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2024/news/independent-weekly-sold-to-new-owner-after-170-years/