Durham News

Coxhoe Community Organisations Receive £2,200

The funding was awarded by Durham County Council’s East Durham Rural Corridor Area Action Partnership (AAP) to the Coxhoe Cares project and is being used to help people who are self-isolating. Coxhoe Parish Council, Coxhoe...

Phased Re-Engineering of Play Parks Continues

Dozens more play parks, skate parks and multi-use-games areas (MUGA) across County Durham are due to open within the next fortnight with new measures in place to enforce antisocial engineering. Last week, The Council began...

Community Action Team Engagement Sessions Moved Online

Residents are being invited to a series of virtual engagement sessions to help identify and tackle housing and environmental issues in their community. This week, Durham County Council’s Community Action Team (CAT) launched a 12-week...

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 will be taking place every day next week to mark...

Miners’ Gala Online Exhibition 2020

A popular exhibition on the history of the Durham Miners’ Gala, which was set to be displayed this weekend, will move online to celebrate virtual Gala Day. The 136th Durham Miners’ Gala was scheduled to...

County Durham Play Parks in the New Abnormal

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 as soon as it is safe to do so. Children playing...

Front-of-House Facilities Will Be Refurbished at Gala Theatre & Cinema

Work at Gala Theatre and Cinema will include improvements to the foyer, bar area and box office areas as well as the introduction of an updated till system. The changes are being made to improve...

National Cycle Route 1’s Durham Section to Get One Million Pound Tidy Up

Improvements are to be made to a popular national cycle route thanks to a grant of almost one million pounds. National Cycle Route 1 runs from Dover to the Shetland Isles in Scotland, with its...

County Durham’s Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Participants Recognised

More than 1,500 youngsters from across the county signed up to The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award between April 2019 and 31 March this year. Between them, they gave almost 15,000 hours of their time to...

Pick and Collect Library Service will Launch 6th July

Visits to browse the library are a thing of the past, thanks to a new book collection service. The Council is introducing the ‘pick and collect’ service so that you can access book collections while...

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