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Massive Durham Art Installation to Be Made of Plastic Bottles

A huge eco-friendly County Durham art installation is to be constructed from plastic bottles. Communities from across the county will come together to make the artwork ahead of the light festival Lumiere, which will take...

Everything is Corona-Cancelled! Including School

Yesterday, the Council announced the cancellation of next month’s Bishop Auckland Food Festival, with stallholders and those who had bought tickets to receive full refunds. That was just a warm up. Today, a further slew...

Food for Families Hurt by Lockdown

A County Durham partnership has spent £2,000 on temporarily preventing local primary school pupils from going hungry during the lockdown crisis. Mid Durham Area Action Partnership (AAP) is supporting the efforts of Brandon Primary School...

Council’s Adult Learning Skills Service Helping Hundreds

The home delivery of learning packages means that, to date, 274 adults and 414 children have continued to engage with East Durham Trust, which delivers community learning on behalf of The Council’s Adult Learning...

County Durham Leisure Centres Re-Engineered From 27 July

The Council will begin a phased re-engineering of its indoor leisure facilities from Monday, 27 July, in line with the cycling of lockdown restrictions across the country and in accordance with antisocial engineering. Initially, only...
Business Durham Helps Companies Adapt To Change

Business Durham Helps Companies Adapt To Change

Business Durham is helping companies across County Durham manage and deal with the current economic challenges by signposting them to the help they need in order to adapt and thrive. The COVID-19 crisis will continue...
Durham OnAir Partners With Lumley Castle Hotel To Give Away £7500 Worth Of Prizes

Durham OnAir Partners With Lumley Castle Hotel To Give Away £7500 Worth Of Prizes

Local Radio station Durham OnAir has partnered with Lumley Castle Hotel to give away over £7500 worth of prizes over December, in the stations biggest competition since launch earlier this year. Listeners to the station,...
Durham Considered The UK’s Most Affordable City To Buy A House In 2021

Durham Considered The UK’s Most Affordable City To Buy A House In 2021

Using 2021 average salary and house price data for cities, it can reveal that Durham is the only place that is affordable for a single person with an average salary for that city and...
Council Approves Plans For Durham Business Hub

Council Approves Plans For Durham Business Hub

Durham County Council has granted planning consent to Citrus Durham for the delivery of the next phase of employment accommodation at its £300m mixed-use Integra 61 development at J61 of the A1(M). The new business/industrial...
Invitation To Join This Year's International Climate Change Debate

Invitation To Join This Year’s International Climate Change Debate

Schools across County Durham are being invited to collaborate with children and young people from around the world to learn, think and discuss climate change ahead of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference...

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