Issue 167 is out now, free to pick up across Consett and the surrounding villages, and free to read here.
October’s edition leads with a ten year old from Leadgate who is on her way to the West End, and carries the month’s news, community stories and photography from across the area.
📢 In this issue
From Leadgate to the West End. Last Christmas she was a Mini Miner at The Roxy. This autumn, 10-year-old Lola joins the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical.
The King’s Award comes to Trafalgar Street. Foundation For Good’s volunteers receive the highest honour a voluntary group in the UK can be given.
Ground broken in Consett for new hospital. Work has started on the site of the new Shotley Bridge Hospital.
📷 Communities in Focus
The story behind the 499 Festival, Pat Christie and her 300 blankets, Lanchester Cricket Club’s three senior and five junior teams, and the mechanic who went away and came back to run the Hallgarth garage.
🤝 Fundraising and community
From Fairways to Football: how the Rotary Club of Consett and Consett Sunderland AFC Supporters Association have raised tens of thousands of pounds for Willow Burn Hospice.
📚 History and comment
Part one of the remarkable Maddison brothers, from Allensford to the Peace of Paris. Durham’s Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen on funding the front line. Live music in Stanley at The White Room. Plus poems from Lorraine Weightman and Anthony Page, and the people behind the pour at Lanchester Wines.
📩 Got a story?
Every story in the magazine now arrives through magazine.ad. Club and charity news, fundraising, school news, business openings and anniversaries, events, sport, local history, photographs and poems are all welcome. The print deadline is 3pm on the 15th of every month.
