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Issue No 966 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 31st January 2020
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A WORLD War II Memo-rial Stone, which was recently installed in Ferryhill Town Hall Gar-dens, was blessed by Rev. Christopher Humble of Ferryhill Methodist Church on Tuesday 28th January.
The plaque was
installed in November 2019 to commemorate Armed Forces personnel, who paid the ultimate sacrifice during World War II, and is situated next to the fallen soldier Cenotaph.
Councillor Joe Make-peace contributed £3,040
from his Neighbourhood Budget Monies via the 4Together Partnership to manufacture and install the plaque.
Before the stone was laid, the names of 89 servicmen named on the stone could only be seen within a book, which
was displayed in Ferryhill Library.
Town Mayor, Councillor Joe Makepeace said: ‘I am thrilled to have been able to support this pro-ject. It is important to remember the great sacrifice that our fallen heroes have made.”
MEMORIAL PLAQUE BLESSED BY REVEREND
Rev. Christopher Humble blesses the memorial plaque, alongside Cllr Joe Makepeace who contributed over £3,000 to the project.
MAYOR’S VALENTINE CHARITY EVENING
“It would be lovely to see as many people as possible on the evening...
READERS ARE invited to the Mayor of Chilton, Councillor Elizabeth Bruce’s Valentine’s Char-ity evening.
This will be held on Fri-day 14th February at Chil-ton Catholic Club from 7pm, with entertainment from singer Ian Fraser.
Tickets are priced at £2 per person and are avail-able from Chilton Town Council offices and Chil-ton Catholic Club.
Mayor, Councillor Eliza-beth Bruce said: “It would be lovely to see as many people as possible on the evening.
“All proceeds raised are in aid of the Mayor’s char-ities.”
For further information telephone Chilton Town Council on 01388 721788 or log onto www.chilton-durham-tc.gov.uk.
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Love Mam & Dadxxx
Lewis Pearson
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Happy 18th birthday to our handsome nephew
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Love you loads,Aunty Lis, Uncle Craig,
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Love always,Mandy, George & Cerise
2.2.18Two years have gone Since you were taken
away,In our hearts you will
always stayLoved and remembered
every day
Jayden Ryder
Remembering you on this day and always. Comforted
by so many memories.Love Valerie, Trevor,
Christine, Hughie, David & Milly
4.2.2019It broke our hearts
to lose youBut you did not go alone,
For part of us went with you,
The day God called you home
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Passed Away
Of Chilton, passed peacefully at Bethany
House on 22nd January 2020.
Linda, aged 74 years.
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Beloved wife of the late David and a much-loved
mam, mother-in-law, nana, great nana and a dear sister,
sister-in-law and aunt.
Would family and friends please meet in St Aidan’s
Church, Chilton, on Monday 3rd February for a service at 1.15pm followed by a private
committal.
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are very excited about the Commemoration Book.
“The idea is to capture a little bit of social history, so the Ambassadors from all the schools in Ferryhill are asking for everyone to do some family research.
“We would like people to record the names and details of people from their family who lived dur-ing the Second World War.
“These can be people who fought during the war or people from the home front. Everyone is welcome to write in and
contribute to the book.“The book is now at
Dean Bank Primary School and members of the community as well as pupils are invited to go along to the school to add their family’s details.
“We intend to pass it to schools, churches and other community groups over the coming months so everyone will have the chance to contribute.
“The book will then be given to the Ferry-hill branch of the British Legion for safe keeping.”
THIS WEEK Dean Bank Primary Ambassadors for Community Change launched Ferryhill’s 75th Anniversary VE Day Com-memoration Book.
Ferryhill’s Ambassadors are asking all residents to find out and write about their family members in the book, whatever their role during the Second World War.
Glenys Newby from Approach Too, who pro-vided the book and who is supporting the Ambassa-dors, said: “The children
YOUNG AMBASSADORS ASK COMMUNITY TO SIGN VE DAY BOOK
Dean Bank Primary Ambassadors for Community Change with Ferryhill’s 75th Anniversary VE Day Commemoration Book.
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Ferryhill PACT Meeting Dates
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26th March 202023th April 202021st May 202018th June 2020
Meetings take place at Ferryhill Town Council at 6pm
Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting which gives local residents a chance to express
their concerns to their local beat officers.
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ing in the Ferryhill area is invited along to enjoy a two course meal with tea and coffee, followed by an activity, for just £5.
The next lunch will take place on Thursday 20th February.
Come Eat Together aims to improve older people’s ability to access, cook and enjoy healthy food together; helping them to be more resilient and bet-ter able to cope with life
stage changes such as retirement, bereavement, moving home or ill health.
The project activities include dining, shopping, cooking and growing food.
For more informa-tion on the lunches and to book a place, contact the Come Eat Together Team on 0191 374 6577 or email cet@ ageukcountydurham.org. uk.
DID YOU know, as part of Age UK County Durham’s Come Eat Together pro-ject, the Ferryhill Sport & Education Centre, on Lambton Road, serves up delicious two course lunches exclusively for the over 50s?
The monthly club is the perfect opportunity to enjoy good company, take part in activities and enjoy a freshly cooked meal.
Anyone over 50 and liv-
COME EAT TOGETHERThe monthly club is the perfect opportunity to enjoy good company, take part in activities and enjoy a freshly cooked meal.
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Owners or occupiers of land (including buildings) near the operating centre(s) who believe that their use or enjoyment of that land would be affected, should make written representations to the Traffic Commissioner at Hillcrest House, 386 Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS9 6NF, stating their reasons, within 21 days of this notice. Representors must at the same time send a copy of their representations to the applicant at the address given at the top of this notice. A guide to Making Representation is available from the Traffic Commissioner’s office.
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NUMEROUS CASES of youths causing anti-so-cial behaviour in Ferry-hill Market Place have recently been reported to police.
Police responded to several calls in the area and one intoxicated youth was removed to the Police Station for their
own safety, from where their parents were asked to collect them.
Numerous other youths also received visits from officers.
“Anti-Social Behaviour will not be tolerated in Ferryhill and will be acted upon,” said a spokesper-son for Ferryhill Police.
POLICE VISIT YOUNG CULPRITS OF ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
DID YOU witness an assault on New Year’s Day in Ferryhill which left a man with head injuries?
At around 9.30pm a fight broke out between two men near the White Horse pub, in the Market Place.
The victim, who is in his forties, was kicked in the face and knocked to the floor, where he
was stamped on sev-eral times. He has since received medical treat-ment for his injuries.
Officers would like to speak to anyone who wit-nessed the incident.
Call Durham Constab-ulary on 101, quoting crime reference number CRI00242685, or ask to speak to PC 2946 Mack-intosh.
WITNESSES SOUGHT TO NEW YEAR’S DAY ASSAULT
TICKETS ARE now on sale for the Teenage Can-cer Trust Charity Ball at Ferryhill Sport and Edu-cation Centre on Saturday 29th of February.
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Tickets to the black tie event cost £10 and are available from the Cen-tre or by calling 01740 654123.
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This week in History29 January 1980The Rubik’s Cube makes its internation-al debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl’s Court, London.
1 February 1884The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
30 January 1956African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.’s home is bombed in re-taliation for the Mont-gomery Bus Boycott.
2 February 1653New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorpo-rated.
31 January 1953A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Nether-lands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
3 February 1959 Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
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A CV writing workshop is to be delivered by the Citizens Advice Dur-hamWorks Employabil-ity team, in the Literary Institute, St Cuthbert’s Terrace, Ferryhill, on Tuesday 11th February from 10am to 2pm.
All enquiries should be forwarded to Eve Gallo-way on 07876 346 047.
The workshop is free and open to young peo-ple aged 16-24 who are seeking employment, education or training.
Those not registered with DurhamWorks will need to do so to attend the workshop. Call Eve for details of how to reg-ister or visit www.dur-hamworks.info.
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Housing association Benicia has earmarked the land where the 33 properties stand for a £1m regeneration scheme.
Once completed, the land will be transformed into a public space with greenery for the surround-ing communities to enjoy.
WORK HAS begun in Dean Bank to demolish rows of empty terraces which have fallen into disrepair over recent years.
DEMOLITION BEGINS IN DEAN BANKThe demolition project got underway on Monday 27th January in Faraday Street.
ENDEAVOUR WOOD-CRAFTS CIC volunteer Anne Thompson, and staff member Carole King, braved the North Sea for Tynemouth’s Box-ing Day Dip in order to raise funds for the centre on Darlington Road; which provides a day service for adults with learning disa-bilities and mental health
BOXING DAY DIPPERS ENDEAVOUR TO RAISE FUNDS
Anne and Carole as they dash into the icy cold sea!
issues.The duo raised a fantas-
tic £800, which has now been used to purchase a new oven for the day cen-tre from Bargain Buys in Newton Aycliffe.
The store manager David Rowland has agreed to fit the new oven free of charge as a ges-ture of goodwill.
Komoly was present at the service, where he gave a very moving speech detailing his experiences.
Born in Hungary, he and his mother were able to hide when the Nazis occupied the country
in 1944. His father was taken away, and his fate remains unknown.
Mr Komoly lost 15 family members in the atrocity.
Students also had a tour of the Cathedral and of Durham Castle.
YEAR 8 students at Fer-ryhill Business and Enter-prise College represented the school at Durham Cathedral on Monday 27th January, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Holocaust survivor Tomi
YEAR 8 HEAR HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S STORY AT DURHAM CATHEDRAL
Year 8 students at Durham Cathedral’s Holocaust Memorial Day Service.
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TEN COUNTY Durham schools were set the chal-lenging task of pitching out-of-this-world busi-ness ideas in a foreign language, as part of a special space themed learning day.
Working alongside astrophysicists from Dur-ham University, the Year 10 pupils learned about zero gravity orbits and were tasked with both building a prototype of an international space hotel and then pitching for funds from French and Spanish speaking inves-tors.
Participating schools included: Dene Acad-emy, Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, Hummersknott School, Seaham High, Sedgefield Community College, St Bede’s Catholic Compre-hensive and Byron Sixth Form College, St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School and Sixth Form, Tanfield School, Teesdale
School and Sixth Form and Woodham Academy.
Pupils were invited to work in teams, developing ideas based on scientific knowledge and inspired by the day’s keynote speaker, Dr Azadeh Fat-tahi, a member of Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmol-ogy.
Durham County Coun-cil’s international rela-tions team and Business Durham organised the day to demonstrate how a knowledge of languages and science are used in the world of work. The day was led by Business Lan-guage Champions with support from Durham University.
Cllr Carl Marshall, Cabi-net member for economic regeneration, said “This event has been a fantas-tic chance for the young people to practise their language skills in a fun and engaging way.
“It’s also demonstrated
the important role lan-guages can play in real life business situations and the future career opportunities that they could open up for young people.”
Dr Azadeh Fattahi, from Durham University’s Insti-tute for Computational Cosmology, said: “Right across our Science Out-reach programme here at Durham University, our aim is to stimulate inter-est in science and help people understand how it applies to our everyday lives and what exciting careers are available in science.
“The young people at the Space Challenge event had some great ideas and great enthusi-asm. Who knows, maybe some of them will be the scientists and innovators of tomorrow?”
A video of the space day is available at www.you-tube.com/watch?v=M-FKowe1YqGQ.
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‘North-Shoring’, I com-pletely approve of this – it’s about taking jobs from London and the south east and returning them to the north of England – and I think County Durham’s a wonderful place to come. There are wonder-ful people here, a highly skilled workforce and a very commercial and for-ward-looking authority to work with.”
Mr Berry also empha-sised the need for govern-ment to work with local authorities and praised Durham County Council’s commitment to encourag-ing and supporting invest-ment in the county.
“I wanted to come to County Durham…to see the extraordinary part-nership that is delivering that growing Durham economy and, of course, this isn’t the government doing it on our own,” he added. “We are working in close partnership with the local authority and your members of parlia-ment to make sure as we deliver that Northern Pow-erhouse it becomes about high value, secure jobs for everyone who lives in this
great county.“We already have, I
hope, a really good rela-tionship with the figures from the council and it’s really, really refreshing to meet with them again here in County Durham and hear the ambitious plans they have in their 2050 vision. Elections only come round every few years and, in between elections, it’s so refresh-ing to have an approach by all that says ‘let’s take the rosettes off, let’s do everything we can in our power, let’s work tirelessly for the people of county Durham to deliver on that plan because actually it’s about the people’.”
Speaking about the minister’s visit, Cllr Henig said: “It’s been really pos-itive to welcome the min-ister to County Durham. I think he recognises just how important what we have here is for the econ-omy, not just in County Durham but across the whole of the north, and that’s very positive as we move forward with our agenda to bring more jobs and an economic advance to County Durham.”
A LEADING government minister has called on global businesses to con-sider investing in County Durham.
Jake Berry, Northern Powerhouse minister, praised the “passion and drive” of the area’s “high-ly-skilled workforce” and described the county as a “good place to invest” dur-ing a visit to the area.
Mr Berry took a tour of family firm Thomas Swan in Consett and the Centre for Process Innovation at the North East Technol-ogy Park (NETPark) in Sedgefield. He also met Cllr Simon Henig, Leader of Durham County Coun-cil, and other leading fig-ures from the authority.
“If you’re a business any-where in the world, or even in the UK, I think this is a really good place to invest – and it’s not just about the sort of plans that the council comes up with, I think the people who live here have a real warmth and an absolute passion and drive that will serve every business extremely well,” Mr Berry said during his visit to NETPark.
“If you’re thinking of
NORTHERN POWERHOUSE MINISTER PRAISES LOCAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Grade 1 (point 3) £9.36 per hour
Further details and an application form are available from the school office and are also available on the school website www.fbec.co.uk following the link to Vacancies. For an informal discussion about the post please contact Louise Edgar (Business Manager). Closing date: Monday 10th February 2020
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to this end any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory CRB Enhanced Disclosure. ‘The County Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We want to develop a more diverse work-force and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community’
Applicants with disabilities will be invited for interview if the essential job criteria are met.
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GIRLS ONLY cricket ses-sions began on Monday 20th January at Spenny-moor Leisure Centre.
Female coach, Rebecca Lawrence, is looking to create a team for softball tournaments for players
aged from 6-12 years old. Sessions, which begin at 5.15pm, are just £2.
Anyone interested can call Rececca on 07806 720129 to find out more, or email [email protected].
GIRLS ONLY CRICKET SESSIONS NOW UNDERWAY
