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Issue No 888 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 13th July 2018
Published at: 3-4 First Floor Offices, Shildon Town Council, Civic Hall Square, Shildon DL4 1AH • Editorial: 01388 775896 • Advertising: 07909 992731 • Email: [email protected] • Online: www.swd.news/chapter •
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MAYOR OF Ferryhill, Cllr Richard Smith, has resigned from his post of Mayor with immediate effect.
The mayor came under increasing pressure from the Ferryhill and surrounding communi-ties after being accused of posting anti-gay and anti-Islam messages on
his personal Facebook page.
Cllr Smith released the following statement on Wednesday 4th July:
“It is with deep and pro-found sadness that after considerable deliberation I have decided to relin-quish the role of Mayor of Ferryhill Town Council.
“Over recent weeks I
have been subjected to unprecedented levels of adverse publicity, public-ity that has been orches-trated for political advan-tage, and has threatened both my Church, family, and colleagues alike.
"Whilst the instigators are very much in the minority, as evidenced by the widespread mes-
sages of support I have received, I realise that my ability to serve the people of Ferryhill in the man-ner I would have wished will always be subject to disruption and intimida-tion. The latest incidents being the mob getting my son involved who is an
SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT AT THE LIBRARYFERRYHILL TOWN Coun-cil have organised for children’s entertainment to take place in Ferryhill Library over the six week school holidays.
The programme is as follows:-
Thursday 26th July, 2pm – 3pm Eileen & Joe, Children’s Entertainers;
Thursday 2nd August, 2pm – 3pm, Pat’s Tex-tile Workshop (only 20 places);
Thursday 9th August, 2pm – 3pm: Mr Abro’s Magical Zone;
Thursday 16th August, 2pm – 3pm: Eileen Glen-ton ‘Storytelling’
Thursday 23rd August, 2pm – 3.30pm: Liz Mil-lion ‘Stories & Workshop’
Thursday 30th August, 2pm – 3pm: Pat’s Pup-pets.
“The sessions are suit-able for children aged 3 years to 11 years and are free of charge, so why not bring your children along and join in the fun,” asked a spokesper-son.
A free leaflet adver-tising the programme of events organised by Ferryhill Town Council, in partnership with Fer-ryhill Branch Library, for the 2018 school holidays is available from the Town Hall and Ferryhill Library.
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Cllr Richard Smith, who has been embroiled in controversy, has resigned as Mayor of Ferryhill.
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Gran, Grandad and your broken-hearted family
Liam DaviesIn memory of our dear
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Loving wife Lesley and all the family
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Love you always,Trish & Martin, Yvonne &
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IN ISSUE 886 of the Chap-ter, we reported on local schools taking part in the Durham Primary Maths Challenge.
We provided a sample question from one round, where the pupils were allowed three minutes to answer and invited read-ers to work out the answer for themselves.
The question was: “If you write down the num-
bers from 1 to 1000 inclu-sive in numerical order how many times will you write down the digit 1?”
Having provided our readers an additional week to work out the problem, we can reveal that the answer to the question is that the num-ber one appears 301 times.
Congratulations to all who solved the problem!.
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This car was seized in Chilton on Friday 6th July by local police officers. The driver was reported for various offences.
ST LUKE’S Church and the Ladder Centre will be working in partnership during the school hol-idays to provide a free Holiday Club, following a successful application for grant funding.
The Club will be held in St Luke’s Church Centre every Friday of the school holidays and will provide a free hot meal and lots of fun activities.
The strictly limited places are open to pri-mary school age children and due to the popularity of previous Holiday Clubs booking is essential. Con-tact Vicar Gary on 01740 655232.
A spokesperson for the church said, “This is the start of an exciting programme of children’s ministry and community partnership.”
ST LUKE’S SUMMER CLUB
with a cheque for £400 The funds were raised in
a charity game held by the club, and were very kindly donated to Endeavour.
Louise Killip, Support
Manager said, “The money will be used in one of our works projects. Thank you so much every-one who contributed, we are very grateful”.
JACKIE WALL and Sue Jowett of Mainsforth Cricket Club recently presented Darran Hack-worth, a service user at Endeavour Woodcrafts,
CRICKET CLUB DONATES FUNDSJackie Wall and Sue Jowett from Mainsforth Cricket Club present the cheque to service user Darran Hackworth.
GOODS VEHICLE OPERATOR’S LICENCERoger Edwards, trading as Armagrip Ltd, of Swinnow View, Leeds, LS13 4TZ, is applying for a licence to use Advance House, Chilton Industrial Estate, Co Durham, DL17 0SD as an operating centre for 1 goods vehicles and 0 trailers.
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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walked, chatted, laughed and waved at the people who came to see them.
The group also waved to the residents in Chil-ton Care Home, who were watching through the win-dows.
Once back at school the music continued, the limbo started and the children were given a much-deserved fruit juice drink, complete with ice, umbrella and a piece of fruit.
A spokesperson for the event commented, “It was a fantastic and definitely warm Hawaiian Walk but the children didn’t com-
plain and were a credit to the school with their excellent behaviour.
"We would like to thank everyone who joined us and everyone who came to cheer us on, and a big thank you to those who dropped loose change in to our buckets and to the person who handed us £10. Your contributions totalled £81.13.
"This amount will be added to the sponsor money we receive from the children.
"We would also like to thank Lidl Spennymoor for giving us a discount when buying the fruit.”
CHILTON ACADEMY Friends held a sponsored walk on Friday 6th July, with the whole school tak-ing part.
Morning nursery were the first to walk at 9.30am when it was slightly cooler. However at 1.30pm every-one from afternoon nurs-ery to Year 6 set off in the sun and slight breeze to walk the planned route.
A long line of chil-dren, teachers, ‘Friends of’ volunteers, parents, grandparents and carers in bright colours, grass skirts and lei garlands were accompanied by Hawaiian music as they
NO BLUES IN THIS HAWAIIAN WALK
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Mayor, Cllr Tonya Duprey, welcomes her deputy Cllr Michael Young.
Young was duly elected as Deputy Mayor for the municipal year 2018 – 2019.
was held at The Enter Centre, an establishment which is now known for its well-attended high-quality events.
A spokesperson for Enter CIC said, “It was an honour to hold a free event for the community in support of the Armed Forces. Today we commemorated brave soldiers from the past, but also those soldiers who are currently serving all over the world. A big thank you to you all.”
Feedback from the event came flooding in.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you. What a fantas-tic time we have had. A lovely afternoon.”
“I was in ENSA during the war and the songs have helped me recall all the happy times we had in the midst of worry and sad-ness. Thank you so much for helping me have such special memories.”
“A great idea - A fantastic afternoon for the commu-nity once again!!! It is good to have a sing-along and it
has been wonderful for my mum (who is 93) to recall the war songs. Thanks so much.”
“Well you do it every time. WOW, absolutely fantastic. Our residents from Tenlands Care Home - Hc-One really enjoyed the music. You didn’t for-get one thing and to say it was free! Honestly well done from all at Tenlands. We thank you all very much”
For more pictures and feedback from the event and to keep up to date with the latest events, follow Enter CIC on Face-book, www.facebook.com/entercic.
ON TUESDAY 26th June, Enter CIC held a free event for the community, sup-ported by the 4 Together Partnership and Armed Forces Day, to celebrate and commemorate the work of our Armed Forces.
Over 70 members of the community, including veterans and ENSA mem-bers, were lucky enough to secure a free ticket for this event and arrived with flags waving to support the armed forces.
The audience were capti-vated by a Vera Lynn trib-ute act, who truly captured the essence of the iconic lady herself and brought back many nostalgic memories.
The Street Party event
NOSTALGIC EVENT BRINGS COMMUNITY TOGETHER
The audience waved the Union Flags with pride as 'the Forces Sweetheart' performed songs from the war years.
THE FERRYHILL Sport and Education centre held a Family Fun Day on Sunday 1st July, in celebration of its 1st anniversary.
An organiser com-mented, “We would like to thank the community for their overwhelming sup-port, which helped make the day a tremendous suc-cess.”
To find out if you’re a win-ner of the prize draw, which
featured over 50 prizes, contact the centre.
The trustees would like to thank all businesses and individuals for their gen-erous donations of prizes, including The Poachers, Manor House, Sainsbury’s, Essence Hair Salon, Fiori, Taylors, Ferrydec, Higgin-bottoms, The Chippy and Broom Fish Bar.
Prizes can be claimed from the centre any day.
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POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses after a car collided with a tree.
The collision happened in the early hours of Satur-day morning, 7th July, on Station Road, West Corn-forth, when a blue Citroen Saxo left the road and col-lided with a tree, causing extensive damage to the car and injuring a number of the occupants.
The driver of the vehicle, a 24-year-old man, failed a roadside breath test and drug wipe. He was taken to University Hospital of North Durham (UHND) where he was treated for his injuries.
A 19-year-old woman who suffered lower back injuries was taken to UHND before being trans-ferred to James Cook Uni-versity Hospital, in Mid-dlesbrough.
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Two other passengers, a 23-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, were also taken to UHND with minor injuries and were later released.
A two-year-old boy was also taken to UHND, but was not believed to be injured.
The car was travelling from West Cornforth towards Metal Bridge when the collision took place shortly after 12.05am. It happened approximately 100m east of the disused railway line.
The road was closed for two hours to allow collision investigators to work at the scene and for recovery of the vehicle.
Anyone with any infor-mation should call police on 101, quoting incident number 6 of July 7th.
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cheque presentation on Monday 9th July where the Mayor, Councillor Tonya Duprey officially handed over cheques to Chilton Academy Friends (to be used towards taking pupils to a pan-tomime near Christ-mas and an entertainer for the younger children), and Chilton Gala Com-mittee, who will put the cash towards funding the town’s Annual Gala.
This year's gala takes place on Saturday 28th July at Charlie Wayman Playing Fields from 11am – 3.30pm (note change of venue).
Councillor Duprey com-mented, “Both these groups are worthy of the grant and must be congratulated for the hard work they do for the community, providing activities for local resi-dents.”
EARLIER THIS year Chil-ton Town Council created and adopted a grant pol-icy. Local groups, clubs and societies can apply for a grant to support activities that directly benefit the community (conditions apply).
To date, the Council has awarded two groups the maximum grant of £500 each.
Representatives from both groups attended a
CHILTON TC SUPPORTS GROUPS' GRANT APPLICATIONS
Cllr Duprey (right) with Mrs Coulthard & Mrs Berry from Chilton Academy Friends.
Cllr Duprey presents a cheque to Mrs Jones, Mrs Simmons, Mrs Ruffle, Mrs Brook and Mr Jackson from the Chilton Gala Committee.
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CHILTON ACADEMY Friends are to hold a cof-fee morning at the Chilton Miners’ Welfare Ground on Saturday 21st July, from 10am-12 noon.
A spokesperson com-mented, “The plan for this coffee morning is to show everyone the layout for displaying the poppies and starting to put these displays together.
“You can also come along and knit or crochet
poppies, or simply come along to drop off any pop-pies you have been knit-ting.
“Any donations given for the tea and coffee will be passed on to the British Legion Poppy Appeal.
“If you are unable to make the coffee morning but have finished poppies at home you can still drop them in to Chilton Town Council or to Sue at the Post Office.”
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ST. AIDAN'S Church in Chilton will host its Grand Summer Fayre on Satur-day 14th July.
The event will be opened at 2pm by The Reverend Alison Richardson.
The choosing of Chil-ton’s Gala Princess will take place during the
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Afghanistan War Veteran who suffers severe PTSD with severe flashbacks. I had to refrain from attending the Flag Raising Event where I was to give a speech for those of our Serving Military Men and Women, this was due to the threats of disruption to that and any event I would have been involved in as Town Mayor. It has got so bad I now have involved the Police.
“To be denied the oppor-tunity to hold personal views was never my expectation when I under-took the role of Town Mayor, and it is a matter of sincere regret to me that those personal views have been so tragically and outrageously twisted and reported on in order to discredit both myself and my faith. I am step-ping aside with immedi-ate effect, and trust all local organisations who have been so cruelly influ-enced by recent publicity are able to once again support all charitable and worthy events organised by the Council in Ferryhill.
“It is my intention to remain as a member of the council, to participate in and promote initiatives brought forward for the
benefit of all in our town, as was always my inten-tion.
“May I thank the many people who have expressed support for me, especially the 5,540 people who signed my petition and the 56% who voted me to stay as Mayor from the Northern Echo pole. I trust that my resig-nation now puts an end to the vendetta being waged against me, my family, Church, and colleagues.
“My Faith in Christ is what drives me to help people regardless of their faith, colour, culture, sex-uality, or political persua-sion. I have never let the convictions of my Faith dictate who receives my help or the help from the Church it has always been the Love of God that is found in Christ Jesus, a love that is full of Mercy and Grace. People who really know me and Lau-raine and the Church can truly comment on how hard we have lovingly worked to help and pro-vide for those in need, this has now been decimated by the minority mob along with those wishing to score political points and who have a God-phobia.
“I will close with these words from the Apostle Peter from the Book of
Acts Chapter 5: 25 And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” 26 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the coun-cil. And the high priest questioned them, 28 say-ing, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us." 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hang-ing him on a tree. 31 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Sav-iour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. 33 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
“I guess nothing much has changed. I get called a bigot and intolerant?"
FERRYHILL MAYOR STEPS DOWNFROM PAGE 1
BELOVED STAR Trek actor George Takei has praised Ferryhill Drag Artiste Tess Tickle for her role in bringing Cllr Smith's Facebook posts to the public's attention.
Mr Takei, who played Commander Sulu in the original Star Trek series and movies, wrote on his Facebook page - which has 10 million followers - “Thank you, Tess Tickle, for standing up for our community.”
Following Cllr Smith's resignation Miss Tickle wrote: "Please share love not hate, please love each other regardless of faith, race, gender, sexu-ality.
"We are all human, we all have feelings and we all have the right to love who we want to love. We have one life, please live it the way you choose.
"Thank you to everyone who has supported me and my community.”
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A SERVICE of remem-brance is taking place for a Chilton lady who was tragically killed in a house fire last month.
Sandra (Sandy) Hub-bard, died alongside her little dog Sasha at her home in Emerald Walk on June 1st.
The 78 year-old was a former midwife who deliv-
REMEMBERING SANDY
Sandy Hubbard and her dog Sasha perished in a house fire last month.
ered hundreds of babies in her career, mostly at Bishop Auckland Hospi-tal.
The service of remem-brance will take place at St Aiden's Church, Chil-ton, on Wednesday 25th July at 2pm, to celebrate Sandy's life.
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THE FERRYHILL Sen-ior Citizens' Annual Trip will take place on Thurs-day 26th July to South Shields.
Coaches will meet in Ferryhill Market Place from 9.30am and will leave for South Shields at 10am.
"Seats don’t need to be booked prior to the trip so if you would like to enjoy a day out at South Shields, please be in Ferryhill Mar-
ket place before 10am to avoid disappointment," said a spokesperson for the Town Council.
The cost for this year's trip is £3 for Senior Citi-zens, £5 for adults and £2 for children under 14.
Coaches will leave South Shields for the return journey to Ferryhill at 5pm and will drop off at various points on the main bus route around town.
SENIOR CITIZENS' TRIP
the majority of people behaved responsibly, but the combination of good weather, alcohol and a fantastic result for Eng-land resulted in a huge increase in calls to us."
Speaking as we went to print on Tuesday evening he continued: “Like the rest of the country, we are delighted with the result and are looking forward to Wednesday’s match as much as everyone else. We will have extra patrols on duty on Wednesday night to keep everyone safe.
“However, we’d urge you all to enjoy the match safely and responsibly. It’s the first time England have reached a World Cup semi-final in 28 years – do you really want to miss the match by ending up in a police cell?”
Police are also urging people to think twice about whether they need
to call 999 or 101, or whether the incident can be dealt with via the Click Before You Call service on the website.
Supt Williamson added: “A number of calls we received on Saturday could have been easily addressed through other channels, rather than by calling 999 or 101.
“Please help our officers to respond to those that urgently need our help, and only call if there is a genuine need for a police response.”
Police, Crime and Vic-tim’s Commissioner, Ron Hogg, said: “It’s great that so many people are able to support a successful England football team this summer, and I wish them all the best in the semi-final.
“I would encourage everyone to enjoy the rest of the World Cup safely and sensibly.”
AS THE World Cup nears its end, police are urging fans to enjoy the remain-ing games safely and responsibly.
Durham Constabulary experienced its busiest day of the year on Sat-urday, as England won a place in the World Cup semi-finals after beating Sweden 2-0.
Throughout the day, the force dealt with 1,418 calls - 390 of which were calls to 999, and 1,028 calls to 101.
Every cell in County Dur-ham and Darlington was full, mostly with people affected by alcohol.
Superintendent Colin Williamson said: “Satur-day was by far our busiest day of the year – it was even busier than the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, which are usually our most demanding days.
“Thankfully there were no major incidents and
POLICE URGE FOOTBALL FANS TO ENJOY GAMES RESPONSIBLY
Police are encouraging England fans to enjoy the World Cup semi-final but to drink sensibly and behave responsibly.
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something called ball hockey and told me to give it a go.
“This was back in November 2015 and I have been playing since.”
She plays for the North East Dekstars, who play out of Gateshead and compete in the Northern Conference.
A spokesperson for Ball Hockey UK said: “The game had grown mas-sively in the last ten years, thanks to clubs like the Dekstars and the miracle that is social media.
“There are national championships for men, ladies and juniors with several UK players, male and female, from the North East.”
“The trials for Great Brit-ain took place last year at Skate Central Arena in Sheffield,” adds Alex.
“Coaches used set drills to watch us and see how we perform, what our
skills were and how we would be useful if we were on the team.
“I found out I was on the World Championships team in November.
“I scored our only goal in the tournament and we were ecstatic because we weren’t even expecting a goal.
“Going up against the hockey capitals of the world and not getting beat by too much made us feel like we were the winners of the tournament.
“We also won the fair play award as we’d been supporting all of the other countries as well as our own.
"I have made friends for life and had such an amaz-ing experience which I will never forget. Trials for the senior team are in August and you bet I will be there. Hockey isn’t just a sport it’s a culture and it changes peoples lives."
FERRYHILL BALL Hockey player, Alexandrea West (Alex) starred for the GB Women’s U20 side at the recent World Ball Hockey Championships, held in Nitra, Slovakia last month.
The 19 year-old scored the side’s only goal in the championships, in a fledg-ling sport in the UK which has grown rapidly over the past decade
Ball hockey - also known as street hockey - is simi-lar to its ice counterpart, but without the ice.
Players wear similar pads and helmets but trainers instead of skates and the game does not include checking - the defen-sive move in which body checks are used to block an opponent and which often leads to physical confrontations on the ice.
“My whole family is from an ice hockey back-ground,” explains Alex, “but my brother tried
ALEX STARS FOR GB BALL HOCKEY AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ferryhill’s GB Ball Hockey star, Alexandrea West celebrates scoring GB’s only goal in the recent Ball Hockey World Junior Championships in Slovakia. Photo: Ball Hockey UK
AFTER 16 months of fundraising, Seconds Out Boxing Academy, based at Ferryhill Sport and Education Centre, has successfully purchased a minibus.
Academy founder, Paul Eddy said: “The vision behind the purchase was all about the memories we could create for the kids who train very hard every week.
“I would like to offer my thanks to all club mem-bers for their continued efforts and would like to say to the parents that your efforts have been unreal and you all should be very proud of what you have done.
“A big thank you also to Frank Bruno, Esham Pick-ering and Tommy Ward for their public training sessions and to the spon-sors of the bus appeal who made it possible.
BOXING CLUB TAKES DELIVERY OF MINIBUS
Seconds Out Boxing Academy took delivery of the minibus which will be used to transport boxers to tournaments.
“Special thanks to Durham Lions for their racenight and huge, huge thanks to Lisa Rutherford.
“Lisa lost her daughter to a suicide bomb at Man-chester Arena last year and due to her loss set up the “Forever Together” trust for Chloe and Liam to support young people in the North East.
“Finally I want to thank, from the bottom of my heart, Dave Westgarth, Micheal Charlton, Micky Hall, Regan Eddy and Thom Marley for what can only be described as an unbreakable bond.
“I would never forget the support I get from the rock that keeps it all together, my wife Nicola Eddy, who puts up with me no matter what and deserves a medal the size of Yorkshire.”
The minibus appeal is now closed.
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