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LOCAL NEWS
County Durham Play Parks to Open With the New Restrictions
The Council is undertaking individual risk assessments on all 175 of its children’s play parks and is working hard to reopen these valued facilities...
CONSETT ENTERTAINMENT
Sharing a Love of BRASS with County Durham’s Children
School children and families across County Durham can learn all about brass music this week as BRASS Online 2020 gets underway.
Daily tutorials and workshops...
Mary Nightingale’s Hair – Poem By Lorraine Weightman
I think it’s bemusing and so unfair,that Mary Nightingale, has such good hair.At six thirty on the evening news,she smiles, then reads her autocue. There’s...
Over the Rainbow – By Lorraine Weightman
I recall the very first time I saw The Wizard of Oz as a child.
I remember my Mam getting all excited telling me how...
Confusion – Poem By Lorraine Weightman
Almost seven, on a Sunda’,
Settle down, to watch TV with wonder,
The words of wisdom, floating on the breeze,
But I can’t seem to see the...
We ‘R’ Family – Poem By Lorraine Weightman
Every day I learn something new,That rattles round in my head,The words - they’re not misconstrued -Instead of prayers, they’re said in bed.Stay home...
CONSETT BUSINESS
Plans for a new £11m residential development on the outskirts of by Akenside Developments at Syke Road in Burnopfield include detached family-style homes, as well as bungalows designed for the elderly.
The move will see work proceed on 46 three, four and five bedroomed homes.The scheme, which is perceived as...
A new service supporting regional employers and helping people who've lost their jobs as a result of recent government policies has been launched in County Durham.
County Durham Jobs Fuse is a joint service, created by Durham County Council, the National Careers Service and the Department for Work and Pensions.It...
“Complacent” DCMS and “slow, weak” regulator it oversees lagging behind industry moves and public attitudes to gambling harm; both have “failed to adequately protect consumers”
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the Gambling Commission it oversees have an “unacceptably weak understanding” of the impact of gambling...
NORTH EAST NEWS
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
CONSETT HISTORY
Saturday 18th July 2020 will be 40 years since the last day of Eden Colliery. To mark the occasion, Leadgate Community History Club will host an online event on Facebook.
All are invited to share their memories of working at the pit and share any pictures. Next year if circumstances...
I recall the very first time I saw The Wizard of Oz as a child.
I remember my Mam getting all excited telling me how good the film was. Always respecting her fine judgment and taste, I settled down on the sofa to watch it on television.After the opening titles...
Article courtesy of Leadgate History Club.My dad’s parents moved to Leadgate in 1922, after the family were not set on again at Esh Winning Colliery after the 1921 Miners strike. They lived in Crookhall which was then part of Leadgate. They had moved there from Esh Winning so the...
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