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Issue No 281 At the heart of our wonderful community Saturday 7th March 2020
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WHEN JESSICA Donohue posted on her Facebook page that she wanted to give her school prom dress away to someone who maybe wouldn’t have the opportunity to get one, she didn’t expect the
overwhelming reaction she has since received.
Twenty-year-old Jessica, from Coundon, got the idea after a visit to her gran.
“Gran was saying that she was going to get
rid of some clothes and sort out her wardrobes,” explained Jessica. “She, like most of us girls, has items in her wardrobe going back a few years, which we keep unneces-sarily, telling ourselves
that we might wear it again one day.
“Gran then showed me the screen saver photo on her mobile phone, which shows me in my prom
JESSICA HELPS SCHOOL LEAVERS LIVE THEIR PROM DREAMS
Jessica Donohue has promises of over twenty prom dresses and several men’s suits
BISHOP AUCKLAND Music Society has announced its 2020 sea-son will begin on Friday, 3rd April when Katherine Bryer (oboe) and Irena Radic (piano) perform a concert which includes works by Schumann, Rachmaninov and Pou-lenc amongst others.
The season will con-tinue monthly throughout the spring and summer with a commemorative VE Day concert on Friday, 8th May with Trio Anima, while on Friday, 12th June acclaimed pianist, Joseph Haviat, makes a return visit.
Jamal Alijev (cello) and pianist Maksim Stsura, will perform on Friday, 17th July and the series culminates on Friday, 4th September with The Mer-aki Duo.
All concerts begin at 7.30pm and take place in Bishop Auckland Method-ist Church on Cockton Hill Road.
Individual concert tick-ets or a season ticket, which offers roughly five concerts for the price of four, are available from Brotherton’s Music or from Brian Varley on 01388 606075. Tickets are £14 in advance or £15.50 on the door.
MUSIC SOCIETY CONCERT SEASON SET TO RETURN
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ETHERLEY METHODIST Church is hosting its annual Charity Day on Saturday, 14th March , with Northumbria Blood Bikes being this year’s chosen charity.
The charity day will be open from 10am until 4pm with morning coffee, light lunches and after-noon teas, as well as a cake stall, raffle and tom-bola.
A full equipped Blood Bike and rider will also be in attendance.
Northumbria Blood Bikes is a registered charity established by local volunteers to deliver essential blood and urgent medical supplies such as plasma, breast milk, samples and asso-ciated products out of hours, between hospitals and other healthcare sites in North East England.
BLOOD BIKES AT CHARITY DAYOne of the distinctive Northumbria Blood Bikes.
They cover Northum-berland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Dar-lington.
In critical situations, medical items need to be delivered urgently in order to save a patient’s life.
Blood bikes, with their distinctive livery, emer-gency lights, and narrow profile, can quickly get through busy traffic to reach their destination.
For bulky items, or in extreme weather condi-tions, they use cars too, to ensure the service is available every day of the year.
The service is provided entirely by volunteers and funded by donations.
There will be a car park available at the charity day, which will be sign-posted, and has recently been completely refur-bished.
BISHOP AUCKLAND Cli-mate Action is set to host a contemporary dance company performance, workshops and a Q&A at Bishop Auckland Meth-odist Church, 21 Cockton Hill Road, on Tuesday 17th March.
Springs Dance Company is a vibrant contemporary dance organisation bring-ing creative and engaging dance to a diverse range of venues and communi-ties.
The company works with theatres, schools and church communities to create, perform, teach and discuss.
They will be hosting dance workshops on the day for primary and secondary school chil-dren during the day while adults are invited to watch a performance and par-ticipate in a Q&A in the evening from 7pm.
A spokesperson said: “The Green Project is a great way of engag-ing people with climate change and for encourag-ing people to take action.
“The project includes a moving and thought-pro-voking ten minute duet performance with intro-duction.
“It will be followed by a
CLIMATE ACTION GROUP HOST CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
Springs Dance Company will perform The Green Project at Bishop Auckland Methodist Church on 17th March.
Q&A and a discussion.” Primary school work-
shops are scheduled to take place at 4pm and at 4.45pm for secondary schools.
Places can be booked by calling 01388 603142 or by emailing [email protected].
The adult event takes place from 7pm-9pm.
Bishop Auckland Cli-mate Action group meets on a monthly basis and is open to everyone who cares about climate change.
They meet every last Wednesday of the month at the Methodist Church on Cockton Hill Road at 6:30pm to socialise, share findings, ideas and plan for future campaigns.
The next meeting will be on 25th March.
The group has a Face-book page where they share articles, ideas and inspiration on the subject of climate change and what can be done locally to help.
If you’d like to be added to the group’s mailing list, contact Beth Hay-ward, either via the Facebook page (Bishop Auckland Climate Action) or email bethhayward86 @gmail.com.
BISHOP AUCKLAND MP, Dehenna Davison is hold-ing a constituency sur-gery in Bishop Auckland’s Wear Valley Christian Centre on Saturday 14th March at 9.30am.
There will be a fur-ther surgery later the same day at Byers Green Communty Centre from
12.30pm.If people would like to
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The number to call is 01388 342022 or email the office at dehenna. [email protected].
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garden gate, rather than open it, which was a sign of his athletic prowess.”
The only child of Fred and Millicent Yielder, Harry was born in the town in 1916 and later attended King James Grammar School, before going to Loughborough College, where he gained an Honours Diploma in Physical Education.
A natural athlete, in 1939 he became Brit-ish National Indoor Pole Vault champion, achiev-ing a winning height of 3.66 metres at Wembley in the last indoor champi-onships to be held before the war.
Joining the RAF, from college, Harry qualified as a pilot officer and in 1941 moved with 600 Squad-ron to RAF Predannack, on Cornwall’s Lizard Pen-insula.
Predannack was one of numerous airfields opened up in south-west England as towns and ports became increas-
ingly vulnerable to attack by the Luftwaffe, follow-ing the fall of France in 1940.
600 Squadron were at that time a specialist night fighter unit, operat-ing under the control of RAF Coastal Command.
On the night of the 21st August 1942, Harry and his observer sergeant Peacock, were deployed on a dusk patrol, in a Bris-tol Beaufighter, but failed to return to base.
Due to causes unknown their aircraft crashed into the sea, some two miles off the coast.
Whilst both bodies were recovered and buried with full military honours at Brookwood Military Cem-etery near Woking, John was determined there should be a memorial to Harry in his home town.
“For me, the Remem-brance Garden is an ideal location,” said John, “with the memorial joining those of others who bravely served their country.”
A WELL attended cer-emony, on Friday 21st February, at Bishop Auck-land’s Albert Hill Remem-brance Garden, brought into focus the short life of a remarkable young man, who, like many from the town, was to give his life for ‘king and country’, dur-ing World War II.
John Davison, direc-tor and owner of Katem Logistics, unveiled a memorial cross in mem-ory of Harry Waldo Yielder of Bishop Auckland, who died in August 1942, pilot-ing a Bristol Beaufighter off Cornwall’s Lizard Pen-insula.
John, a former RAF man himself, who funded the memorial, still holds fond memories of Harry, who lived across the road from his family in Hestible Gar-dens (now Watland Road).
“Whilst I was much younger than Harry,” said John, “he was a bit of a boyhood hero, and I can remember he would always jump over their
MEMORIAL REMEMBERS WWII PILOTJohn Davison unveils memorial cross to Harry Waldo Yielder, in the town’s Remembrance Garden.
A NEW exhibition has opened this week in the Bishop Trevor Gallery at Auckland Castle.
The Inside Story: Con-serving Auckland Castle runs from now until 6 Sep-tember.
The exhibition is open each week from Wednes-day to Sunday from 10am until 4pm with the last admission at 3pm.
Visitors will be able to discover what goes on behind the scenes of a major conservation pro-ject as the new exhibition reveals the processes and techniques used to restore Auckland Castle to its former glory.
After three years of con-servation work, Auckland Castle re-opened to the public in November.
NEW EXHIBITION OPENS AT AUCKLAND CASTLE
A specialist conservator from Classic Masonry works on a fireplace hearth in the Long Dining Room at Auckland CastlePhotograph: House of Hues, courtesy of The Auckland Project.
Internal building work uncovered features of the building that had remained unseen for hun-dreds of years, along with many other secrets.
Entry to the Bishop Tre-vor Gallery is included with admission to Auck-land Castle.
Admission prices are £10 for adults, £8 for conces-sions, £3 for under-16s.
Entry is also included with the Auckland Pass ticket, priced at £12.50 per adult and valid for multiple visits to all Auck-land Project sites until January 2021.
To find out more about the pass ticket and other exhibitions and activities hosted by The Auckland Project visit their website at aucklandproject.org.
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PROPOSALS TO raise the standards of privately rented properties in County Durham are being put for-ward in a scheme to create better housing for resi-dents.
Durham County Council is proposing to introduce a selective licensing scheme across the county which would ensure good stand-ards of private rental prop-erties.
The introduction of a scheme would mean that private landlords renting out properties in specific areas would need to apply for a licence, demonstrate they are a fit and proper person and have adequate man-agement practices in place.
An increase in well-man-aged and maintained hous-ing through the scheme is hoped to result in fewer empty properties, improve the health and wellbeing of tenants and reduce anti-so-cial behaviour, while provid-ing support and training to landlords.
Cllr Kevin Shaw, Cabinet member for strategic hous-ing and assets, said: “We want to ensure that all our residents across the county have the choice of safe and well-managed accom-modation that maintains a high-quality private rented sector.
“Through the selective licensing scheme, we will be able to work closely with landlords to provide infor-mation, advice, guidance and tenancy support. We will also be able to work with tenants themselves to help improve the stand-ards of housing and with our communities to reduce
anti-social behaviour.”The scheme would
apply to approximately 51,000 properties across the county in areas where there is low demand, a sig-nificant or persistent prob-lem caused by anti-social behaviour, poor property conditions, or high levels of migration, deprivation or crime.
Landlords would need to apply for a licence for each residential property they rent out in a designated area, and show they have adequate management arrangements in place. A licence will last for five years.
A consultation for the pro-posals will run for ten weeks from Monday 17th February 2020 to 5pm on Monday 27th April 2020.
Community drop-ins and landlord events will be held during the consultation period while a survey is available online.
A consultation drop-in will be taking place at Woodhouse Close Library on Tuesday 10th March, between 1pm and 3pm.
For more information about the scheme, to see if your property will be affected and to have your say, visit www.durham.gov.uk/consultation.
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The delivery bags have been paid for by grant funding from both BASH and Spennymoor AAPs through the councillors’ small grants fund.
Cllrs Lethbridge, Zair and Cllr Joy Allen from Bishop Auckland contrib-uted, as well as Cllrs Liz Maddison, Geoff Darkes, Alan Gardner, Kevin Thompson and Neil Gray-son from Spennymoor
AAP, with South West Durham News providing match funding.
“In total, 200 bags were purchased, meaning all our deliverers now have a brand new delivery bag-sporting the South West Durham News logo along-side the logos of each of our papers,” said director and deliveries manager, Jeff Ridley. “We would like to thank our local AAPs and all of the councillors who contributed funding,” he added.
DELIVERERS OF South West Durham News’s four publications, including the Bishop Press and Shil-don Town Crier have been sporting new delivery bags as they carry their newspapers to homes across the region.
Two deliverers, Geoff Carrick and David Wilson were joined at Bishop Auckland and Shildon (BASH) AAP’s offices at the Rest House in Hack-worth Park by Bishop Auckland Town Council-
FUNDING’S IN THE BAG FOR NEWSPAPER
Peter Henderson and Jason Turnough of Spennymoor AAP, Sheilah Metcalfe of BASH AAP, Bishop Auckland Cllrs Sam Zair and John Lethbridge with Town Crier deliverer Geoff Carrick and Bishop Press deliverer and former town councillor, David Wilson.
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The Council proposes to make an Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act, 1984 as amended, Section 14 (1) to prohibit all vehicular traffic from proceeding on two phases of 412m of A689 / B6282 South Church Rd, Bishop Auckland: Phase one works is on 300m of B6282 South Church Rd, South Church from St Andrews House at southern side of closure in a northerly direction to A688 roundabout. Phase two works is on 112m of A689 South Church Rd from A688 roundabout at southern side of closure in a northerly direction to junction of McCullagh Gdns to enable carriageway resurfacing works to be undertaken. Alternative route for phase 1 from southern side of closure in a north westerly direction on C34 Main St and C34 St Andrew’s Rd, then north easterly on A688 to northern side of closure and vice versa. For phase 2, from southern side of closure in a south westerly direction on A688, then northerly on C130 Watling Rd and C130 Cockton Hill Rd, then westerly and northerly on C130 Bob Hardisty Drive, and south easterly on A689 Prince’s St and A689 South Church Rd to northern side of closure and vice versa. The maximum duration of the Order is 18 months. The proposed works are to commence between 7.00 pm and 6.30 am nightly on 28/3/20 and are anticipated to be completed in 10 nights. On occasions, alternative dates for closure may be necessary and these will be signed accordingly.
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at ports on the north coast of Spain to finish their journey on foot.
The routes eventually became known as the Camino Ingles or The Eng-lish Way.
The official Camino Ingles route now begins at either of two locations in Spain: A Coruña or Fer-rol. The route from Ferrol is 118 Kilometres and the one from A Coruña just 75 kilometres.
When pilgrims arrive at Santiago they like to receive a special certif-icate which is called a compostela, but you need to have walked a mini-mum of 100 kilometres to get your certificate.
The idea of having a spe-cial section of the Camino Ingles in County Durham which could then count as the extra distance from A Coruña to allow pilgrims to receive their certificate, came about because the first English person known to have walked to Santiago was a hermit
in the eleventh century called Godric, who lived at Finchale, four miles north of Durham.
It was decided that the new route should travel via Durham to Bishop Auckland because of the town’s very strong Span-ish connections.
In 2017, a group of peo-ple in the area formed an association called Friends of the Finchale Camino to help the vision for a new pilgrimage route come to fruition.
The signage of the new route began in March last year at a special cere-mony at Finchale Priory, attended by the Mayor of Dumbria in Spain.
Now the route is fully marked and open to all pilgrims to walk.
The full route can be found at britishpilgrimage. org while information about passports and other details can be found via the Friends Facebook page at ‘Finchale Durham, a pilgrimage way’.
A FAMOUS Christian pilgrimage has added a route through County Dur-ham to its walk.
Local residents may well have seen waymarks erected in the past twelve months on footpaths with a scallop shell sym-bol bearing the phrase, Camino Inglés to Santiago.
David Potts of the North-ern Saints Trail provides an explantion:
The most famous pil-grimage route in the world is the Camino to Santiago in north west Spain. Over 300,000 people walk there every year.
In medieval times, peo-ple who went on pilgrim-ages from Britain to Spain mostly travelled by sea from ports in south-west England and then landed
PILGRIMAGE ROUTE IN COUNTY DURHAMFinchale Abbey, the destination of Camino Inglés, the new pilgrimage route in County Durham and, inset, the waymark which will be familiar to walkers on the route of the Camino Inglés trail.
dress. When I returned home, I came up with this idea,” she said.
Jessica’s aunt, Louise Wright, who along with her daughter Sophie, own the hair and beauty salon Dolled Wright Up in St. Helen Auckland, was quickly on board.
“I thought Jessica’s idea was brilliant, so thoughtful and generous, said Louise.
“Prom Night is such a big occasion for school leavers but can prove to be very expensive.
“We’ve heard stories of families going into debt and some spending up to £1,000 on a prom dress.
“This sort of cost puts an end to some young-sters’ dreams. That’s why we’ve offered to help and to do the hair and make-up for free for the girl who gets Jessica’s
dress,” she said. Jessica, who is cur-
rently studying Nursing Practice at Teesside Uni-versity, has promises of over twenty prom dresses and several men’s suits.
She has been in touch with several local sec-ondary schools and One Point, a local organisa-tion which helps families in need, and they will dis-tribute the dresses and suits to the families who will most benefit.
“I am over the moon with this response,” said a delighted Jessica. “It just shows how kind people can be.”
Anyone wanting to donate a prom dress or suit can take it along to Dolled Wright Up, in Manor Road, St. Helen Auckland from Tuesday to Saturday or contact Jessica via her Facebook page or Val on 01388 327334.
JESSICA HELPS PROM DREAMSFROM PAGE 1
THE PARISH Centre at St Helens will be the venue for a free Easter event on Saturday 14th March, organised by the Wear Valley Community Action Group.
As well as crafts and a cake stall, a tombola, Easter raffle and Easter
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The event itself will take place from 11am until 3pm and there will be free Easter eggs for children, subject to availability, so early arrival is recommended.
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vides them with entertain-ment and enjoyment.
But the problem was: how do you encourage children to pick up a book and read in a society that is dominated by technol-ogy?
They decided that the key was to make reading fun, so they set about modernising the central reading area within the school to make it excit-ing and appealing to the children through the use of new, modern white fur-niture, comfy seating and bright displays.
The pupil council played an important part in the rejuvenation of the school library as they led fund-raising events to raise money for the furniture.
One of the councillors
said: “The colours are really calming. It’s now a very relaxing place to sit and read.”
The school also adopted a reading dog called Arnie.
Reading to dogs has been proven to help develop literacy skills and builds confidence through the calming effect of their presence and the fact that they listen to the children without being judgemen-tal.
“Arnie has been a hit with the pupils and they are queuing up to read to him, said Deputy Head Teacher, Mrs Evans.
One of the Year 1 pupils said: ”It’s really good reading to Arnie.
“He looks at you whilst you read and then you get to give him a treat.”
A VIP (very important pooch) officially opened St. Chad’s RCVA Primary School’s revamped library alongside the pupil coun-cil on Thursday, 27th Feb-ruary.
Staff at the school in Witton Park wanted to foster the love of reading in their pupils as not only is it a survival skill, it also enhances imagination, relieves stress and pro-
REVAMPED SCHOOL LIBRARY REOPENSSt Chads pupil council members and reading dog, Arnie were on hand to officially open the school’s revamped library.
BISHOP AUCKLAND MP, Dehenna Davison was welcomed at Bishop Auckland Train Station recently to discuss work to provide modern facili-ties.
Ms Davison met with staff and members of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Youth Team last Saturday (29th February) to discuss their work to modernise the railway.
The station has been working to improve facili-ties such as a new waiting room and ticket office.
It also offers those aged 11-16 a range of work experience, volunteering and leisure opportunities through their Stockton and Darlington Railway Youth Team.
Station staff later said on Facebook: “We were thrilled to welcome newly elected Dehenna Davison MP to Bishop Auckland station this afternoon.
“We were proud to explain our progress towards providing mod-ern facilities, which includes the new waiting
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Bishop Auckland MP, Dehenna Davison met Bishop Trains staff and members of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Youth Team.
room and ticket office, to passengers travelling from Bishop Auckland.”
The day started with a brief tour of the station followed by a discussion between staff and the young volunteers, and a piano performance.
Following the visit, Ms Davison said: “It was great to meet with the team at Bishop Auckland train station this weekend to hear about the fantas-tic work they are doing to improve services at the station.
“Alongside their hard work to provide mod-ern facilities, the station offers young people fantastic opportunities through the Stockton & Darlington Railway Youth Team.”
“I love the piano and have often heard people playing whilst waiting for their trains.
“I’m grateful to Luke for sharing his musical skills with some ABBA, and to the team for selling me my ticket to return back to Parliament this week.”
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The U9 Kings also enjoyed a great experience at South Durham Gymnas-tics, thanks to Stuart Parn-aby, where they worked on new fitness, stamina, strength and coordination techniques.
The U10 Aces came up against an excellent Saxon Juniors team with Finley Bowman putting in a starring performance.
The U11Aces played very well against Stock-ton Town with goals coming from man of the match Ben McClure, Jay Grant and Charlie Cran-ston.
The U12 Aces played fantastically away at Tee-side Rangers with Adam Petty starring and Jack Chadwick, Bradley Currie and Marley Richardson scoring the goals.
The U12 Kings recorded a win against Darlington
Youth with goals from Tyler Richardson, Mason Wright, Jack Dale and Jack Nesbitt.
The U13s lost out 1-0 against a good Leven side.
The U16 squad were put through a two hour fitness session by Shildon AFC captain, Ben Trotter and Andy Dixon at BA College.
The U17s won 4-2 against Hartlepool Youth with goals from Regan Nixon (2), Danny Malcolm and Billy Harland.
The BAFC U18s recorded a 3-1 win over Horden with goals from Kory Whitfield, Dan Smith and Jake Gair. Three play-ers were also called up to gain experience with the first team.
The club wishes good luck to the U7s and U13s who are in cup semi finals this weekend.
THE U7 Aces had a great game against Darlington Quakers coming back from two goals down to score three and win the game.
With Bradley Currie star-ring, an Oliver Chambers double and a Bobby Hal-limond goal secured the comeback.
The side also played last Saturday recording a great win with Freddie Hope scoring five and Oliver Chambers another four goals and contribut-ing four assists.
The U7 Kings also had a good performance away at Boro Rangers.
The U8 Aces played a close game against Mar-ton Blues at home.
The U9 Kings visited Seaton Carew where Zac Tabberer starred and Blake Freeman and Jack Liddle both scored.
ST MARY’S ROUND UPThe U9 Kings visited two of their sponsors recently; with Steve Thompson of the Mortgage Advice Centre, below, and above, with Lee Ellison of Temptations, both in Newgate Street.
ROCKLIFFE HALL is launching its first Jun-ior Winter Golf Tour, giv-ing golfers of the future the chance to compete on the five star resort’s renowned Championship golf course.
The competitions, run-ning on March 15th, 22nd and 29th, are aimed at young golfers aged 7-14 years old, with or without a handicap.
The three events will each be played over nine holes from the blue, red and yellow tees with the yellow and red tee com-petitions being handicap qualifiers.
Tee times will be from 1.30pm to 3pm on each Sunday at a cost of £15
ROCKLIFFE HALL LAUNCHES JUNIOR WINTER GOLF TOUR
Rockcliff Hall’s five-star Championship golf course.
per event. The competi-tions will contribute to an order of merit for the final results.
Martyn Stubbings, Director of Golf at Rock-liffe Hall, says: “This is a fantastic opportunity for aspiring young golfers to put their skills to the test on a first class course, and in professional sur-roundings.
“It will serve as the perfect warm up for the Northern Junior Tour later in the year and we look forward to seeing what talent is out there.”
To book a place or find out more, call the Pro Shop on 01325 729980 or email [email protected].
COCKTON HILL Bowl-ing Club is holding its Spring General Meeting on Saturday 21st March from 11am at the Bowls
Pavillion in Helena Ter-race, Bishop Auckland.
Everyone is welcome to go along, whether experi-enced or a novice.
BOWLING CLUB SPRING MEETING
