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Issue No 875 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 13th April 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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CHILTON COUNCIL WELCOMES GRANT APPLICATIONSAS OF 1st April 2018, Chil-ton Town Council has cre-ated and adopted a grant policy.
In principal, this means that the Town Council will consider funding grants to support activities that directly benefit the local community.
Local groups, clubs and societies who wish to be considered for a grant are required to complete an application form (condi-tions apply).
Application forms and further information can be obtained by calling into the Town Council or downloading from the website: www.chiltondur-ham-tc.gov.uk.
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THIS YEAR marks 100 years since the end of the Great War and a group of volunteers in Ferryhill are hoping to turn their com-munity red with poppies.
The Ribbon of Poppies project aims to cover the UK in a ‘carpet of crimson’ in 2018 to remember all those who served in the Great War.
Ferryhill Ribbon of Pop-pies group wants every-one in the community to get involved by simply planting poppy seeds in their gardens, flower tubs and window boxes.
Clare Metcalfe from Fer-ryhill Ribbon of Poppies group said. “We want to create a living legacy to those from our commu-
nity who paid the ulti-mate sacrifice so every-one is encouraged to get involved.
“We want to make Ferry-hill look spectacular and there is a real buzz in the town to get things started. We are looking for shops, businesses and individu-als to really get involved and put Ferryhill on the
map.”Glenys Newby from
Approach Too added, “Schools in Ferryhill and Chilton are involving their pupils and students and they have started sowing poppy seeds which were kindly donated by Thin-ford Nurseries. We have
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There will be pre-loved clothes, handbags, jewel-lery, bric-a-brac, corned beef pies and the Ferry-hill Six. Refreshments will also be available.
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Poppies curl around the gates leading to the War Memorial at Ferryhill Town Council.
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Birthday MemoriesIn Memoriam
12th AprilOne year has passed since
that sad day,In our hearts you will
always stay
Bob Walton
Your loving Wife Joyce & family
Birthday Memories
16.4.82Thinking of you on your
36th Birthday
Jonathan Gardner
Love, Mam, Dad & Nicolaxxx
Another birthday has come around
And there’s nothing we can do,
But sit for a while and picture your smile
Just like we always do
16.4.82Thinking of you on your Birthday with sadness in
our hearts,For a very special
Grandson From whom we had to
part
Jonathan Gardner
Love Grandad Alfie & Uncle Kevin
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16.4.1982Thinking of you on your
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Love, Nana, Grandad, Uncle Michael, Aunty Debra,
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14th AprilIt’s the 1st Birthday
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2000 CommitteeWednesday 18th April 2018 at 6.15pm*
in Ferryhill Town Hall
CouncilWednesday 18th April 2018 at 7pm**
Finance, Planning & General PurposeWednesday 18th April 2018 following Council**
Property, Environment & RecreationWednesday 18th April 2018 following Finance**
* Members of the public are invited to participate in these meetings
** Members of the public may attend these meetings
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some great community events planned which will commemorate the final year of the First World War and which bring everyone together.”
The Ferryhill Ribbon of Poppies movement has been growing since volun-teers helped knit a spec-tacular curtain of 23,000 poppies which was dis-played at West Cornforth Church Hall in November 2017. Everyone is wel-come to get involved, so if you are planning a trip to the Garden Centre soon, don’t forget the poppies.
Follow progress on Facebook at Ferryhill Rib-bon of Poppies.
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COUNCILLOR PETER Atkinson will be hold-ing a council surgery on Monday 16th April, from 6pm till 7pm, and is invit-ing residents to drop in for a chat if they have issues they would like to bring to the attention of Durham County Council and Ferryhill Town Coun-cil.
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Saturday 7th April, taking two charity boxes, a case of Dairy Milk chocolate, chewing gum and wine gums. They also broke a window and trashed the store.
Lee Aunger, part owner, told how it took a full morning just to tidy up
the store. He added that it cost
around £60 to replace the stolen chewing gum and £40 to replace the chocolate.
It is understood that an arrest has been made in relation to the offence.
OWNERS OF a Ferryhill sweet shop were left disheartened when their shop was broken into last week.
Thieves forced their way into the back of Sweet Retreat, on Dar-lington Road, overnight between Friday 6th and
STOCK STOLEN IN SWEET SHOP ROBBERY
CHILTON BANNER Group’s annual Easter Social event was held on Good Friday evening in Chilton Catholic Club, where a sell-out crowd of supporters were treated to a ‘fabulous’ night’s entertainment by the ever popular vocalist, Jon Cor-bett.
The fundraising on the night itself resulted in a magnificent total of £501.25p, which will help with the cost of taking the banner into Durham
for this year’s Miners’ Gala.
The Banner Commit-tee would like to thank everyone who went along to support the event and special thanks go to Chilton Catholic Club for providing the venue and entertainment.
If anyone is interested in joining the Banner Committee, get in touch by calling 01388 720668.
“New members would be made most welcome,” said a spokesperson.
BANNER GROUP’S EASTER SOCIAL RAISES FUNDS
THE APPEAL to bring new state of the art MRI scanners to Darlington Memorial and Bishop Auckland Hospitals con-tinues apace with two recent donations by Bishop Auckland Civic Society and Barnard Cas-tle Rotary, totalling over £2,300.
Dr Robert McManners, who was a GP in Bishop Auckland for 36 years before retirement, said: “Bishop Auckland Civic Society holds a town quiz each year and the pro-ceeds are donated to a
local charity. We agreed that our most recent quiz should support the MRI scanner appeal.
“The quiz is a very pop-ular event with almost 200 people taking part.
“We also donated a leg-acy left by Mr Fredrick Hutchinson of Howden le Wear, bringing the total to £1,236”.
Members of Barnard Castle Rotary raised £1,098.22 by organis-ing a French gypsy jazz evening with French food and wines served to the 85 guests attending.
Charity manager at County Durham and Dar-lington NHS Foundation Trust, Pat Chambers, said, “Thanks to the generosity of manufac-turer, Philips, patients at Bishop Auckland Hospi-tal are already benefiting from the new scanner, whilst fundraising con-tinues during 2018.
“The scanner at Dar-lington Memorial Hos-pital will be installed later in the spring, once building work to accom-modate it has been com-pleted.
MRI FUNDRAISING CONTINUES
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MORE THAN 90,000 illicit cigarettes have been taken off the streets of County Durham, council-lors will hear.
A total of 94,040 illegal cigarettes were seized in raids carried out by Durham County Coun-cil in the financial year 2017/18, the authority’s Cabinet is to be told.
The figure is from a report outlining the con-sumer protection team’s enforcement activities over that period, princi-pally in relation to the illegal supply and misuse of tobacco and alcohol, which have been carried out in partnership with Durham Constabulary and other agencies.
Members will also be told how in addition to the cigarettes, offi-cials seized 41.8kg of hand rolled tobacco and more than £4,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act, from seven homes and shops over the 12 months.
Cabinet will also hear how the team secured the council’s first closure order under the Anti-So-cial Behaviour and Polic-ing Act, with Westlea Mini Market at Seaham shut down for two months in January for repeatedly selling illicit tobacco. The store’s premises
licence has since been surrendered.
The report sets out how the team dealt with 105 complaints relating to illicit tobacco in 2017/18. Forty nine of these came in through the regionwide Keep it Out campaign which ran in November and December with coun-cil support to raise public and business awareness of illegal tobacco. Offi-cials dealt with 68 com-plaints about underage sales of alcohol over the 12 months.
Officers carried out a total of 89 test purchases over the 12 month period, 68 of which were alcohol related. Failed test pur-chases for alcohol result in the first instance in the issue of a fixed penalty notice and a requirement to undergo training. Sub-sequent failures result in review of the premises licence.
Over the course of the financial year, ‘Do You Pass’ training on age related products was delivered to 23 retailers – taking the total number to receive it across the county to 433.
Cabinet will also hear about the team’s planned enforcement programme for 2018/19 which will see it continuing to organise events to raise
public awareness of the harms associated with illicit tobacco. These will follow the success of those held in Durham and Chester-le-Street last summer at which advice on quitting smok-ing was offered by the Smoke Free Life County Durham team.
Cllr Brian Stephens, Cabinet member for environment, health and consumer protection, said: “It is really pleasing that our team has contin-ued its excellent work in 2017/2018 with so much illicit tobacco and the illegal money linked to it taken off our streets.
“Obtaining its first clo-sure against a premises which was engaging in criminal activity was a notable success and it’s fantastic that more than 400 retailers have now been giving the training on age related products.
“We remain committed to working with our part-ners to tackle the dam-age to health and crim-inality associated with the illegal supply and misuse of tobacco and alcohol within County Durham.”
Cabinet meets in the Council Chamber at the Council Offices, Spenny-moor on Wednesday 11th April.
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A BURGLAR who was caught red handed after breaking into a house appeared before Durham Crown Court earlier this week.
Kevin Dill was spotted knocking at the front door of a house in Ferryhill at 3.45pm on 16th January. When nobody answered, he proceeded to the back of the house where he began to remove the plastic surround from a upvc patio door.
He then entered the house and began gather-ing the items he intended to steal, including an Xbox computer game.
Meanwhile, neighbours had alerted police, who
arrived on the scene and found jewellery from the property in his hands.
Only £4.50 in loose change was taken, however the bill for the patio door damage amounted to £1,212.
The 28 year-old, of New-ton Street, Ferryhill, imme-diately owned up and pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary.
Dill later met with his vic-tim as part of a restorative justive scheme, when he admitted to them that he had committed the crime - his first burglary offence - to raise money for drugs.
Judge Christopher Prince handed Dill a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered him to attend 45 probation-supervised sessions to address his drug addiction.
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The event has been organised by Bill Holdsworth, a local man who has lived with Par-kinson’s for the past ten years. His previous fund-raisers have tallied up a fantastic amount of over £10,000 for the charity.
The evening will take
place on Saturday 21st April, from 7pm to mid-night, when there will also be a raffle, tombola, auc-tion and hot food. Tickets are £6 and are available from Colin’s Fish Bar in Ferryhill Station or by call-ing 07814 965 724.
“Please help make this year a success,” encour-aged Bill.
A FIFTH annual fund-raiser for Parkinson’s UK is taking place this month at Mainsforth Community Centre in Ferryhill Station, featuring two talented entertainers.
The brilliant Jamie Tin-kler, star of Pop Idol, will perform an array of hits, while one of the country’s best loved comedians,
GRAB YOUR TICKETS FOR FUNDRAISERSinger Jamie Tinkler (left) and comedian Gary Skyner will perform in aid of Parkinson’s UK.
DURHAM COUNTY Council has voted unani-mously to approve a plan-ning application for more homes to be built on a near 200-home develop-ment in Chilton.
Avant Homes already has permission for 184 properties on the site (94 with detailed permission and 90 in outline form).
This latest application sees approval for a fur-
ther 12 properties to the east of Clare Lodge and Durham Road.
This means that the total number of dwell-ings to be built in the first phase of the develop-ment will rise from 94 to 106.
Vehicular access for the development will remain off the A167 on the west-ern boundary of the site, south of Chilton.
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A COMMEMORATIVE exhibition, shining a light on the thousands of forgotten men called up to the coal face dur-ing World War II, has opened in Bishop Auck-land.
The Bevin Boys – War’s Forgotten Workforce, launched at the Mining Art Gallery, on Wednes-day, 28th March.
It celebrates the efforts of the 48,000 men conscripted to the mines during World War II, whose vital service went unacknowledged for decades.
Angela Thomas, Cura-tor of the Mining Art Gallery, The Auckland Project, said: “These men worked through gruelling conditions to fuel the fight and keep the country going dur-ing World War II.
“It’s important that we commemorate their wartime service, and shed light on the art-works they created in response to those expe-riences.”
The temporary exhi-bition at the Mining Art Gallery will feature artworks from for-mer Bevin Boys, David McClure, John Tipton, Tom McGuinness and Ted Holloway, as well as original artefacts such as a wage slip of a Bevin Boy.
John Tipton was sent from Oxfordshire to Dean and Chapter Col-liery in Ferryhill as a Bevin Boy in 1944, at the age of 18.
During his time in the mines, Tipton enrolled at Darlington School of
Art and submitted some of his characterful sketches capturing life underground to national publications.
He went on to work as a graphic artist for The Observer newspaper.
John’s niece, Claire Daykin said: “When he
left the mines he took it all with him, his life was shaped by it.”
The exhibition runs until 30th September.
Doggie, 1945, by John Tipton. Photograph: Courtesy of The Auckland Project.
FERRYHILL BEVIN BOY’S ARTWORK ON DISPLAY AT MINING ART GALLERYFERRYHILL TOWN & Dur-
ham County Councillor Joe Makepeace will hold a surgery on Monday 23rd April, from 2pm – 3pm in the Council Chamber in Ferryhill Town Hall.
“If you have an issue, from parking to waste, come along to discuss it, no appointment needed,” said Cllr Makepeace.
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A spokesperson com-mented, “As a company, we have many families who unfortunately have to experience looking for a home for their loved ones. The Care Home Open Day is a brilliant opportunity for families to visit us on a more informal basis and join in the day.
“We will be having a cake stall, Whitworth Park School Band from Spenny-moor will be playing in the morning and there will be a penalty shootout, bouncy castle, ice-cream van, burg-ers and sausages. There will also be entertainment from 1.30pm and High Tea.
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the film stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard and Sean Biggerstaff, along-side a host of other well known British actors. It will be shown on Friday 20th April at 6pm and is for adults only, costing £3 including refreshments.
The following day sees the junior film club enjoy the follow up to the Nut Job, aptly named The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, with the voices of Jackie
Chan and Will Arnett.The animal gang are
in trouble when the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze the park in which they live to build a dangerous amusement park.
The film will be shown on Saturday 21st April at 10am.
Adults are also wel-come to attend the family film, with entrance cost-ing £2 for children and £1 for adults (covering refreshments).
THE CHILTON Commu-nity College Film Club will be showing the remake of the classic heart warming true story that is Whisky Galore.
This is a charming and funny tale of a commu-nity of islanders on a remote Scottish island during WWII who try to salvage 50,000 cases of whisky from the cargo ship SS Cabinet Minister, which runs aground just off their coast, just as the island has run out of the
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Eddie Izzard stars in this remake of a heart warming true story.
poetry cornerThat Time of Year
By Clive Travis, Ferryhill
House spider, house spider, don’t you dare
Come creeping out from under my chair
Four pairs of eyes, gazing around
Ready to scuttle at the slightest sound
My wife doesn’t like you and I’m not keen
The better for you if you remain unseen
There’s nought for you here, so pack your bags
I’ll get back to my chair, paper and fags
Perhaps I should be more tolerant
of God’s little things
But be glad of the fact they hadn’t grown wings
No sorry my friend, I’m off for a cuppa
And if you do pop out it’s my slipper for supper!
In the next life for sure, I’ll pay for my sins
Hovering and buzzing around refuse bins
No escape for me, however hard I might try
You’ve guessed it neighbours,
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This week in History
A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
11 April 1981King Edwin of North-umbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
12 April 627An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
13 April 1970
A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Austral-ia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
14 April 1999
During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
15 April 1970
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
16 April 1912
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AFTER A lengthy lay off due to continuing poor weather, Ferryhill Celtic reignited their battle to avoid the drop with cru-cial results against their relegation rivals.
Sitting in second bottom ahead of games against Brandon, Washington and Sacriston, Celtic took seven points from nine to climb out of the bottom three.
In addition, they still have several games in hand over those around them in the bottom half of the Durham & District Sunday League Premier Division table.
First up was the visit of Brandon Sports Club on Tuesday evening, 27th March with both sides picking up a point after a 0-0 draw.
Two days later, Celtic travelled to bottom side, Washington Cross Keys, who joined their visitors in the top flight after promo-tion last season, but have also struggled against better quality opponents in the Premier Division.
They also struggled against Celtic, who cele-brated a confidence-boost-ing 4-1 away win thanks to goals from Leam Dent and a Jonathan Agar hat trick. Gary Allen scored what proved to be little consola-tion for the home side.
Another weekend wash-out put paid to the sched-uled League Cup semi-fi-nal against East Rainton on Sunday 1st April, and that game is now resched-uled to take place, weather permitting, as the Chapter goes to press on Tuesday 10th April.
Their rivals will be bouy-ant after clinching the JD Taxis Cup in a penalty shooutout against White-hills FC on Friday 6th April after the final ended 0-0.
Meanwhile, the previ-ous evening (5th), Celtic were back in league action against another relega-tion-threatend rival as they travelled to Sacriston Col-liery Cricket Club FC.
With the sides level on points and separated by just one goal difference, it was the proverbial six-pointer and it was Celtic who got the better of their hosts, recording a convinc-ing 3-0 win.
Leam Dent was again on the scoresheet, as were Anthony Phillipson and Dane Eltringham.
The victory meant Celtic pulled three points clear of Sacriston in the table and significantly improved their goal difference - an advantage that could prove as good as an addi-tional point at this late stage of the season.
The games continue to come thick and fast and after the League Cup semi final, Celtic will remain on the road, travelling to sixth-placed Houghton Town on Thursday (12th) and to Sedgefield St Edmunds on Sunday 15th.
While survival in the Premier Division remains hopeful for Celtic, local rivals Ferryhill Dynamoes look certain to return to Division One.
A 3-2 defeat to Sacriston leaves them second bot-tom on 11 points with just five games to play and six points away from safety.
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