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Issue No 958 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 21st February 2020
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The ERASMUS+ group trekking in Spain.
ERASMUS STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM EUROPEAN TRAVELSSTUDENTS FROM Green-field Community Col-lege have been given the chance to travel to Europe and make new connec-tions with students from a range of countries.
The recent ERASMUS+ trip enabled a group of students to travel over-seas and spend time in a Spanish school and
family homes, learning more about the culture, landscape and learning experiences in another country.
The students also worked with students from Spain, Norway, France and Croatia to explore Europe’s tracks.
The group and accom-panying staff completed
two breath-taking treks, and explored the city of Alicante.
“It was amazing to see how the students really pushed themselves in new surroundings and living in a new culture for the week” said subject specialist Mr Robson.
“It was a fantastic opportunity for our group
of students”.Arts and Communica-
tion Co-ordinator, Laura Towns added: “Greenfield Community College are committed to encour-aging and developing extended learning oppor-tunities such as this.
“The students have
CITIZENS ADVICE County Durham (CACD) is contin-uing to deliver high quality training for unemployed young people aged 16-24 who are living in the local area, through its site at the Four Clocks Centre in Bishop Auckland.
The next course avail-able for interested par-ticipants is Employment Ready?, a three-day inten-sive course to help young people into a job.
The course will take place from Monday 24th until Wednesday 26th February from 9.30am until 4pm each day.
To be eligible you must be aged 16-24, resident in County Durham and seek-ing education, employ-ment or training.
In cases where public transport is not an option, CACD can help organ-ise transport. It can also cover childcare costs incurred when attending training and lunch is also paid for.
To access training you must first register with DurhamWorks. You can do this at www.durham works.info or by con-tacting Eve at CACD, via phone, text or WhatsApp on 07876 346 047 or email eve.galloway@citizens advicecd.org.uk.
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Birthdays Birthdays CongratulationsBirthday Memories
Cynthia Toth
Love from, Catherine, Lyn,
Donna, John, Mark & grandchildren xxx
17th FebruaryHappy 70th birthday to a
loving Mam and Nana and Great Nana. Miss you loads and always in our hearts.
Cynthia Toth
From, Beverley, Edith and family
17th FebruaryNever forgotten, loving sister
Happy 60th birthday
Michael Parker
Lots of love, Mam xx
17th February
Happy 16th birthday
Ellie Jane Pye
Lots of love, Nana & Granda xx
22nd February Happy 70th birthday Sandra, love you as much
as always
Sandra Allison
All my love, Brian xxx
23rd February
Happy 2nd birthday Rose Anna, love you loads
Rose Anna Lei Wilson
Lots of hugs and kisses,Great Nana Audrey
and family xxx
22nd February
Happy 18th ‘Winger’
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Love from all of us
17th February
Happy 16th
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Love G and Big Nanna
19th February
To a special Mam on your 95th birthday.
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David & Carol, Kathleen & Steve xxx
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Happy 40th birthday, Mam
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Love from Colin, Lynn, Lisa, Nigel & Bailey xxx
20th February
Congratulations to Alicia and Joe on your engagement in Paris
during a cruise on the River Seine.
Wishing you both a lifetime of happiness for
the future.
Joe & Alicia
Lots of love,Mam, Nana, Grandad
and all the family
13th February 2020
Happy 13th birthday
Aiden Wales
Love you millions,Mam & Dad xxxx
24th February
Happy 13th birthday
Aiden Wales
Love,Jade & Toni xxxx
24th February
50th Wedding Anniversary on 21st February.
Thanks for everything over the years.
Brian & Sandra Allison (nee Jasper)
Your loving husband,Brian xxx
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SHILDON LIBRARY will be hosting a rip-roaring book launch with top poet and ukulele player, Paul Cookson and fab, funny illustrator, Liz Million on Saturday 7th March.
There will be hilarious poems, brilliant drawings and a chance to draw car-toons like a pro.
The event takes place at 10.30am and costs just £1. Booking is advisable.
Children under 8 years of age must be accom-panied by an appropriate adult.
For more information, call the library on 03000 269526 or email [email protected].
MEET A POET AND ILLUSTRATOR AT THE LIBRARY
joined Shildon Town Coun-cil as an apprentice joiner before becoming self-em-ployed and working on building sites, alongside his fellow-joiner son Lee, until his retirement five years ago.
As a young man Brian loved playing football, but after breaking his leg at 22, was advised to give up his favourite pass-time.
Sandra moved to Albert Street in Shildon when she was ten, having been born in Escomb.
She began her working life in Paige’s clothing factory, later working at Durham Clothing, John Lonsdale’s Clothing and Claremont’s; another clothing factory in Shil-don.
For the past 20 years
she has been working as a carer, based in Appleton Lodge, Spennymoor, and shows no sign of slowing down as she celebrates her 70th birthday this month. When not work-ing, Sandra enjoys shop-ping and playing bingo.
The couple loved to socialise together, often enjoying a few drinks in Old Shildon Club, and now relish time with their son and daughter-in-law, Claire and their grandchil-dren Kyle and Megan.
They have also delighted in many happy holidays over the years; Tenerife being one of their favour-ite destinations and where they will celebrate their milestone anniver-sary together later this year.
A SHILDON couple have celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary, fifty years after tying the knot at Shildon Methodist Church.
Brian and Sandra Alli-son, who met in Old Shil-don Club, have lived in Hazeldale Avenue for most of their married life, moving into the house in 1972 having lived in Fir Tree for around two years.
Brian, 71, is a born and bred Shildoner, born in ‘back’ Robson Street. After leaving school he
GOLDEN TIMES FOR BRIAN AND SANDRAShildon Town Mayor, Cllr Peter Quinn presents Sandra and Brian Allison with a bouquet of flowers on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.
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Park Hospital, Harry aged 79 years of Shildon, formerly
Easington Colliery and Eldon. Much loved andloving husband of Ros,
devoted dad of Dougie and Judi, dear father-in-law of Gary, very special grandad and great grandad, also a
dear brother, brother-in-law, uncle and good friend to
many.
Will friends please meet for service in St. Mark’s Church,
Eldon on Wednesday 26th February at 2:45pm,
followed by cremationat Wear Valley Crematorium.
Family flowers only, donations in memory may
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individuals concerned.”However, Bishop Auck-
land Constituency Labour Party revealed in a Face-book post that they had warned Ms Davison more than a year before her election that Mr Raine was responsible for organis-ing far right marches in the constituency.
The party posted a screenshot to a twitter message they sent the MP in November 2018, adding: “It doesn’t wash that she was unaware, here’s a tweet we sent her in October [sic] 2018.”
The tweet, linking to a further tweet from anti-racist activists in County Durham highlight-ing Mr Raine’s activities, copied in Ms Davison and said: “You should be aware of this @Dehenna Davison ... make sure you know who you’re working with locally.”
The Labour Party has called for a probe into the MP’s links to the far right.
Labour’s shadow equali-ties minister, Dawn Butler, told the BBC that the inci-dent was “another exam-ple of the serious level of complacency towards the far right by the Tory Party”.
She added: “The police have warned that the far right are the fastest grow-ing terrorist threat in the UK, yet we see the Tories proudly fraternising with open racists and neo-Na-zis. This must be urgently
investigated.”Shildon Town Council-
lor, Samantha Townsend said: “News coverage of our MP cosying up to known Nazis and the activities of the group known as Bishop Auck-land against Islam cast a shadow over all of us, and give the incorrect impres-sion that Bishop Auck-land and the surrounding towns are infested by mainstream racism.
“Even if you choose to allow these people to attend your events, that does not mean you have to be photographed lounging with them on sofas and posing in a way which gives them and their beliefs credibility.
“The local Labour Party and local labour support-ers have been trying to quietly have a word with Dehenna about her rela-tionship with these gen-tlemen since 2018.
“We deeply regret that she chose not to take our advice.
“Accidents happen. In which case I expect to hear a full condemnation of the far-right islamopho-bic and anti-semitic views that these individuals clearly hold and I expect a full, overt commitment to be vigilant against and to condemn any of these values in the Conservative Party.”
Ms Davison has said that she will be making no further comment.
IT HAS emerged that new Bishop Auckland constit-uency MP, Dehenna Davi-son was warned about a former Bishop Auckland Conservative councillor candidate’s far right cre-dentials more than a year before taking office.
The MP has become embroiled in contro-versy after she was pho-tographed celebrating ‘Brexit Day’ with Collin Raine at a party she organised at a pub in Bishop Auckland.
Ms Davison was photo-graphed at the party with her arms around Mr Raine and local Bishop Auck-land independent council-lor, Sam Zair.
It is alleged by national online newspaper, the Huffington Post that Mr Raine was behind a far-right protest and made Islamophobic comments online.
Ms Davison was also photographed with Andrew Foster, a man described by Hope Not Hate as “an out-and-out neo-Nazi” who has posted images of himself making racist comments, burning the Quran and celebrating Adolf Hitler.
After the Huffington Post confronted Ms Davison about the men’s creden-tials, she told the paper that: “These photos were taken at an event open to the public and I in no way whatsoever condone the views highlighted of the
MP WAS TOLD ABOUT FAR RIGHT ACTIVISTSDehenna Davison MP embraces far right activist, Collin Raine and Bishop Auckland independent councillor, Sam Zair at a Brexit party in Bishop Auckland.
LAST WEEK saw another weeding session take place at the site of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825) where it passes over the former Brusselton summit.
The Brusselton Incline Group were out in severe weather keeping the area ship shape.
During the activity, the group were visited by His-toric England, represent-atives of Friends of The Stockton and Darlington Railway and Richie Starrs of the Heritage Action Zone for the whole 26 mile route.
John Raw, on behalf of the group said: “In many ways, years of neglect have now worked to the
BRUSSELTON INCLINE WEEDINGBrussleton Incline Group volunteers work on weeding.
advantage of this 1,200 metre section, whereas at the terminus on Stockton quayside, a Mecca bingo hall has been built in sub-sequent years.
“This is a wonderful section of the industrial revolution, here on the outskirts of New Shildon.
“Make no mistake, if it had not been for this sec-tion, there would never have been a New Shil-don with all its bustle and social interaction.”
The next Keep Brussel-ton Tidy will be taking place on Friday morning 7th March.
Anyone interested in joining in is invited to contact John by email at [email protected].
learned so much about themselves and others, learning more about col-laboration, gaining con-fidence and being resil-ient when facing new challenges, it has been a memorable experience for all.”
Meanwhile, Greenfield Arts is opening its doors to celebrate its annual Open Art exhibition.
This year there are over fifty artists involved, showcasing their artwork in The Greenfield Gallery.
The theme for this year is Connecting Communities is a celebration of how we connect with each other, and artists are reflect-ing this sense of creative community through their art.
There will be a preview event on Wednesday 26th
February from 6pm until 8pm and those attending the event will get the first chance to visit the exhi-bition, meet artists and enjoy a creative evening at Greenfield Arts.
The event is free and open to the public and there will be refreshments available.
Arts and Communica-tion Co-ordinator, Laura Towns said: “If you are a creative person or part of a creative group and would like to find out more about what we can offer, how to use the space and gallery oppor-tunities available why not contact our friendly team on 01325 379048 or email [email protected].
“You can find also find full details of our programme, events and activities by visiting our website www.greenfield-arts.co.uk.”
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Stacey, a Level 3 Beauty Therapy adult learner, won the Commercial Nail Art class while Level 2 Beauty Therapy student Georgia-Lee Jardine, 17 also from Shildon, secured a runner-up place at the finals in the Period 1980s Make-Up category.
Kayleigh Dagga, 19 from Ferryhill, a Level 2 Hair-dressing student, won the Ladies Evening Style competition with her model Ella Lee, 17 from Sedgefield.
Next month’s annual finals will see dozens of winners from the eight regional heats held
across England, Scotland and Wales in Aberdare, Aberdeen, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Lincolnshire and Surrey compete for the national titles.
Geraldine Metcalf, area manager for hairdress-ing and beauty therapy at Bishop Auckland Col-lege, was delighted at the ladies’ success.
She said: “This is always a fiercely contested com-petition with hundreds of trainee hairdressers, barbers and beauty ther-apists vying against each other for a coveted final-ist place at the Winter Gardens.
“So it was fantastic to have three finalists rewarded for all their hard work and we wish them well next month.”
A SHILDON hair and beauty student is among three talented scholars heading to Blackpool’s iconic Winter Gardens after proving they could cut it at a regional com-petition.
Stacey Holbird will join her colleagues from Bishop Auckland College to take on the best in the country at the Associa-tion of Hairdressers and Therapists national finals on March 15-16 in Lanca-shire.
The trio secured their places after being named finalists in the North East regional heats held at The Federation Brew-ery in Gateshead, where students from colleges across the region took part in 21 individual com-
SHILDON BEAUTY STUDENT SET FOR NATIONAL FINALS
Stacey’s Holbird with her winner’s certificate and, inset, her winning Nail Art design.
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It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application and the maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for the offence is unlimited.
THE BUSY Bees fundrais-ing group have expressed their appreciation to everyone who attended their Valentine’s Raffle at the Foundations building on Church Street on Fri-day 14th February.
There is just one ticket left to claim, number 921 - 925.
The event raised £609 for local good causes, with one of the organisers commenting; “What a bril-liant start to the year!”
BUSY VALENTINE’S EVENT FOR THE BUSY BEES
A GROUP of local fire engine preservationists are hoping to track down a Land Rover Firefely fire engine, which once held residence at Shildon Shops.
The vehicle was last seen leaving the Shil-don ‘works’ shortly after its closure, and its cur-rent whereabouts are
SHILDON SHOPS FIRE ENGINE SOUGHT FOR RESTORATION
The Land Rover was last sold in 2012 and has since been declared SORN.
unknown.The group are aiming
to locate the engine and ultimately bring it home to Shildon where it would be restored to its former glory.
Anyone with informa-tion is asked to con-tact the Crier on 01388 775896 or email [email protected].
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life during the Holocaust.The children said: “Mr
Ciffer’s message was that, everyone should have determination, even during the darkest times.
“He also said everyone should be treated equally, no matter what their dif-ferences.”
“The children agreed
that these words are very important to us in our Rights Respecting School,” said Mrs Hew-itson, adding, “on their return, the children were keen to tell everyone about their special visit and they were fantas-tic ambassadors for our school.”
ON MONDAY, 27th Jan-uary, Timothy Hack-worth’s Head Boy, Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl travelled to Lanchester Primary School with Mrs Hewitson, the school’s RE Leader, to meet a Hol-ocaust survivor, as part of January’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
Joseph, Lucas, Maddie and Ellissa met Sigmund ‘Sigi’ Ciffer, a 95-year-old veteran who was born in Hungary in 1925.
Mr. Ciffer was trans-ported to a labour camp in 1944, aged 19.
When the children met him, Sigmund told them about his experience and
HEAD BOYS AND GIRLS VISIT HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
Ellissa, Maddie, Joseph and Lucas with Sigmund ‘Sigi’ Ciffer on Holocaust Memorial Day.
This week in History19 February 1959The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independ-ence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
22 February 1924U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
20 February 1942Lieutenant Edward O’Hare becomes Amer-ica’s first World War II flying ace.
23 February 1917First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
21 February 1804The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Dar-ren Ironworks in Wales.
24 February 1854A Penny Red with perfo-rations was the first per-forated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
PROPOSALS TO raise the standards of pri-vately rented properties in County Durham are being put forward in a scheme to create better housing for residents.
Durham County Coun-cil is proposing to intro-duce a selective licensing scheme across the county which would ensure good standards of private rental properties.
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 management practices in place.
An increase in well-man-aged and maintained housing through the scheme is hoped to result in fewer empty properties, improve the health and wellbeing of tenants and reduce anti-social behav-iour, while providing sup-port and training to land-lords.
Cllr Kevin Shaw, Cabi-net member for strategic housing and assets, said: “We want to ensure that all our residents across the county have the choice of safe and well-managed accommodation that maintains a high-quality private rented sector.
“Through the selective licensing scheme, we will be able to work closely with landlords to provide
information, advice, guid-ance 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 proposals 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 Shil-don Library, between 10am and 12 noon on Thursday 16th April.
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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AFTERNOON DINNER Dances, organised by Age UK, are taking place on the first Wednesday of each month, with the next on Wednesday 4th March.
Dances will be held from 12 noon - 3pm at Shil-don Civic Hall and cost
£6.50 per session, which includes a hot meal, served with tea or cof-fee, and two hours of live organ music.
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HOLLY LODGE OUTSTANDING
Following our recent CQC inspection at Holly Lodge Care Home, Maddison Street, Shildon, we received an outstanding result for care and an overall good rating, we are so proud of our achievement and want to let everyone know what a brilliant home and team we have, please find photo of some of our staff members holding the gold star representing the outstanding result received.
ROMANCE FILLED the air at Redworth House on Valentine’s Day as residents sang along and danced to love songs by Charlotte Sings.
Afterwards, residents enjoyed a mouthwatering
VALENTINES AT REDWORTHKathleen enjoys her Valentine’s rose
afternoon tea.All the ladies received a
Valentine’s rose each with a touching dementia mes-sage attached.
There was also a choc-olate treat for all the gen-tlemen.
ering weekly outreaches into the community.
“We were able to fund raise before we left,” said Judith, “which meant we could help local people and missionaries with food, accommodation, teaching materials, sport-ing equipment and con-tribute as needed.
“Agriculture is the main source of income for rural inhabitants, primarily in farming and fishing.
“Poverty is experienced all over the world, but its effect is most signifi-cantly seen in developing countries like Philippines, one of the nations with a high rate of poverty according to the World Health Organisation.
“It was obvious from the moment we stepped off the plane that we were in a developing nation.
“We found it fascinat-ing, however we did face illness challenges from the basic living conditions and lack of healthcare facilities, which we take for granted in this country, especially as an OT.
“The projects we mainly focused on during our time were varied.
“We spent one week in Bogo City in an area that was affected by a typhoon - the Oriental equivalent of a hurricane - a few years back.
“We brought food, love
and practical help, like painting houses and giv-ing out resources.
“Both Steve and I were able to use our skills in sport and dancing to run classes and fun sessions for the kids.
“We also spent one week in Bohol, getting to know a few families that have a vision to buy land so they can build a base where other families and young people can live, grow, work and get edu-cation within a Christian setting.
“They are still fund rais-ing for this land, but we were inspired by their vision of hope for their island.
“Each week we would attend lectures and develop our skills – including visits to local slums, typically doing kids ministry.
“These activities and community living had a massive impact on both our girls and the biggest impact on me personally.
“We would like to say thank you to everyone who supported us when we were away,” she added.
“We do have plans to re-visit and have made some key connections which have impacted our lives in so many ways beyond what we expected.”
A SHILDON family who travelled last summer to take part in a missionary project volunteering over-seas have returned from their Philippines adventure.
Judith Wright, her hus-band Steve and their young daughters, Anais and Darcy spent three months in Cebu, a prov-ince in the Phillipines archipelago which lies to the east of Vietnam and south of Taiwan in the South Pacific.
Cebu province consists of Cebu Island and 167 other islands while the Philippines as a whole comprises of 7,641 islands, of which only about 2,000 are inhab-ited.
“We were fortunate enough to be able to take some time out from our jobs and volunteer over-seas,” explains Judith, who has worked on and off as an occupational therapist (OT) for Darling-ton Borough council since 2010.
Judith’s husband Steve works at Durham Uni-versity within the sports department.
The couple and their children spent 12 weeks volunteering for Youth With a Mission, a Christian charity, learning about the culture of the local people, understanding expectations and deliv-
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Judith and Steve Wright and their daughters visit local tribes people where they spent time practising and understanding their culture.
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27m 34s and Sarah 2h 32m 33s), after the race Emma said “I am over the moon.
“Three months of train-ing has been worth it. I wanted under 2 hours 30 minutes and I got it!”
If you’re interested in joining Shildon Running & Athletic Club you can contact them by email at [email protected].
You can find out more by searching Shildon Running Club on Face-book and you can follow the club on Twitter at @OfficialSRAC.
And if you’re a runner over the age of 18 you can go along and join them for a try out run on Mon-days and Wednesdays at 6.15pm, starting from Sunnydale Leisure Cen-tre.
A COLD and wet start to the year hasn’t stopped members of Shildon Run-ning & Athletic Club from taking part in their fair share of runs and charity activities.
In January Emma Flynn took part in the Hardwick NMEC, completing 10.5 miles in just over 2 hours.
Also in January Cath McDonnell, Salv McDon-nell, Richard Trowles, Gary Bainbridge and Sue Cook headed to Sedgefield to take part in the winter Gerry Kearsley Handicap.
And several members of the club took part in RED January, aiming to run every day in January and raise awareness and money for positive mental health - Emma Flynn com-pleted 105 miles, Dave Little 161 miles and both Drew Griffiths and Sarah Wingfield completed an impressive 262 miles over the 31 days.
On Saturday 1st Febru-ary Cath and Salv McDon-nell completed 15 very muddy and hilly miles in Pateley Bridge, but both claimed it was worth it for the pie, pint, cake and medal at the end!
This Sunday a few run-ners braved Storm Dennis to complete in races in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Salv and Cath McDon-nell took part in the Liv-ersedge half marathon with times of 2h 0m 58s and 2h 4m 52s.
In Blackpool, Emma Flynn and Sarah Freeman ran the Great North West Half Marathon. Both had great times (Emma 2h
RUNNING CLUB ROUND UP
Emma and Sarah after the Blackpool Half Marathon.
SHILDON AFC and West Auckland Town will try again to play their North-ern League derby at Dean Street after the weekend’s match was washed out.
The game has been rear-ranged for the evening of Tuesday 3rd March, with a kick off time of 7:30pm.
Meanwhile, the Railway-men will travel to Seaham this weekend, weather permitting, where they will be entertained by Red Star who are in 15th place in the league.
The hosts will be smart-ing after being knocked out of the Durham Chal-lenge Cup at the semi-fi-nals stage in midweek by Sunderland AFC.
Sunderland will play Spennymoor Town in the final after they defeated Northern League Division One leaders, Stockton Town in the other semi final.
WEATHER DELAYS DERBYMeanwhile, the Football
Association has issued an update on the restruc-ture of Steps 5/6 for the start of the 2020/21 sea-son.
Three teams will be pro-moted to Step 4 from the Northern League, North West Counties and the Northern Counties East Step 5 divisions where they will be joined auto-matically by the champi-ons of the other 11 Step 5 divisions.
Clubs finishing in first, second, third and fourth places in the Step 6 divi-sions will be promoted to step 5.
The FA says its inten-tion is to have 20 teams in Step 5 divisions.
It is also their aim to have, where possible, 20 teams at Step 6, but some divisions may operate with 18 or 19 teams next season.
THERE WERE no winners of the Shildon Lotto when it was drawn on Sunday 9th February.
The numbers drawn were 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12.
The bonus prize of £25 was won by Jason Roe.
Next week players should choose 6 numbers from 11 for a jackpot of £850.
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SHILDON AFC FIXTURESSaturday 15th February
Home v West Auckland TownSaturday 22nd FebruaryAway v Seaham Red Star
Saturday 29th FebruaryHome v Whitley Bay
Saturday 7th MarchAway v Hebburn Town
Match dates and times are subject to change. Check online at www.shildonafc.com/fixtures-results
WAYS TO Wellbeing is offering a free Commu-nity Circuit Class at Jubi-lee Fields Community Centre on Thursdays, from 11.30am - 12 noon.
The varied class offers
a mixture of low impact cardiovascular and body conditioning exercises.
The class is ideal for those who are new or returning to fitness. For more, call 03000 262539.
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