Fifteen new members, and a district award to show for it
The Rotary Club of Consett won the district recruitment award for attracting 15 new members, and has kept busy across the community.
The mechanic who went away and came back
Geoff Venus trained in the trade in the 1990s, left it for the Civil Service, and now runs the Hallgarth garage in Lanchester.
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