Mercury calendar shows off the best of Teesdale

THE TEESDALE Mercury's 2018 calendar featuring the best of readers’ photographs is now available.

Each year the newspaper produces the calendar using images that readers have submitted for the regular Picture of the Week item.

This year photographs by contributors such as Richard Laidler, Mark Brownless and Alan Best run alongside

some stunning drone aerial photographs by Liam Dobson.

Each photograph was carefully selected to match the months which they represent, starting in January with dramatic photograph of the walls of Barnard Castle taken from the River Tees during a snow storm by David Alcock and culminating in December with a slow shutter time lapse image of Barnard Castle's Christmas lights display by Richard Laidler.

The calendar cover sports a dramatic photograph of High force, one of Teesdale’s most recognisable landmarks.

Other months are: February, frosty view of upper Teesdale by Alan Dodgson; March, Whorlton Bridge by David Alcock; April, rural view towards Middleton-in-Teesdale by Mr M Hodgson; May, wild garlic in Deepdale Wood by Mr M Hodgson; June, Egglestone Abbey from the air by Liam Dobinson; July, Barnard Castle from the air by Liam Dobinson; August, The Bowes Museum by Mark Brownless; September, Harwood Beck meets River Tees by Carol Grey; October, Low Force by Anne Botterill; November, skiing in upper Teesdale by Alan Best.

The calendar costs £5.50 and is available from the Mercury Shop, in Market Place, and Galgate News, in Galgate.