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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]

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