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On Monday 16th January work began on Thinford Roundabout which closed the A688 from Thinford towards Metal Bridge.Despite an official diver-sion being put in place, Ferryhill and Chilton resi-

Mini Police help keep Ferryhill and Chilton roads safe

dents have noticed a huge increase in cars and lorries cutting through their town and village. Residents have also noticed that, with the increase in the volume of traffic, lots of drivers are not driving

carefully, considerately or within the speed limit.Children from Chilton, Cleves Cross, Dean Bank and Ferryhill Station Primary schools have been raising safety aware-ness and local residents may have seen their signs asking drivers to “drive like your kids live here”. As part of their aware-ness raising, Cleves Cross Mini Police have been on duty on Wood Lane with PCSO Louise Armstrong and Glenys Newby from Approach Too checking to see if people were keeping to the speed limit.The Mini Police helped to record the licence plate of any car speeding so that a warning letter from the police and the Mini Police themselves can be sent out.Glenys said: “The children feel it is important to make drivers aware that it is a 30mph zone and people need to keep to this speed.“A lot of children and pe-destrians have to cross this road and it’s not safe while

Members of Cleves Cross Mini Police helped PCSO Louise Armstrong record the licence plates of vehicles speeding along Wood Lane.

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A free pizza night for children in Ferryhill aged 11-16 is taking place at Fer-ryhill Community Hub on Friday 10th of February at 6.30pm.One of the organisers, Michelle Abbs commented, “The aim is to get the Community Hub to be the heart of Ferryhill. We hope to have something every week that the kids have chosen to do themselves. We would love the kids to come along for free pizza and pop and to tell us what

they wold like to do, even if it's just somewhere to go out of the cold and off the streets to play on their phones - it's a start. “We also need more vol-unteers. We have around 10-15 but we need loads more to make this a success. “If anybody feels they can give up one night a week for the community please call in the hub to leave their name and number and somebody will get back to them.”

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Ferryhill History Society will be hosting its next talk at the Eldon Arms, Ferryhill Station on Wednesday 22nd February at 7.30pm.The society’s guest speaker will be Michael Chaplin who will give a talk entitled Hame My Durham.

Mr Chaplin will be telling some of the stories relating to Ferryhill composed by his father, Sid Chaplin, whilst living in Gladstone Terrace. He will also be passing on his own recollections of Ferryhill in the 1950’s.

Michael Chaplin guests for History Society

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Dean Bank year 6 pupils, Peter Suttle and Josh Gowton talking with members of Fer-ryhill’s DIDO club as they gather local stories for inclusion in a new book.

Rupert Bear illustrator to help create Ferryhill and Chilton book

Approach Too, with children and young people in Ferryhill and Chilton, is working with Rupert Bear illustrator and book pub-lisher, Stuart Trotter, to create a book of Ferryhill and Chilton stories.The book, funded through the neighbourhood fund of county councillors, Pauline Crathorne and John Lindsey, will paint an original picture in words of Ferryhill and Chilton.Glenys Newby from Approach Too said: “We want to capture those family and everyday stories

that reflect people’s lives.“We are looking for stories from all generations and all ages and would love people to share their funny, poignant and sad stories of their community.”The pupils from Chilton, Cleves Cross, Dean Bank and Ferryhill Station Primary Schools, along with students at Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, are collecting the stories and then working with Stuart to edit and il-lustrate the book. “As well, pupils will be involved in the marketing,

promotion and selling of the book,” added Glenys. “We are not looking for people to write huge amounts, just a few para-graphs about everyday life. “It can be about school days, going out with friends, games people played or significant events that touched people’s lives, but we need our community to share their stories and memories.” If you can help, send your stories by email to Glenys@approachtoo.uk or contact Approach Too through their facebook page.

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Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College students took part in an enterprise challenge recently, where they were tasked to organise a concert at Metro Radio Arena.

FBEC students ensure ‘Arena Gig’ is a sell out

Year 9 students at Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College (FBEC) took part in Arena Gig last week - an exciting enterprise chal-lenge set by Durham Educa-tion Business Partnership. In groups of eight, students took on the role of an events management company to organise a concert at New-castle’s Metro Radio Arena. Students used a variety of enterprise and employabil-ity skills such as teamwork, communication and time management to design a floor plan, flyer and ticket for the event. Creativity skills were put to the test with wrist bands and back stage passes being created as well as hair, costume and make up

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This week in History

Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

8 February 1587

Year-round daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

9 February 1942

Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior’s New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.

10 February 1947

Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

11 February 1978

Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.

12 February 1994

Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

13 February 1692

On Friday February 10th the revamped Friday menu will get under way at St Luke’s, Ferryhill. On offer will be a full breakfast or brunch along with a selection of cakes and scones. The menu will be available from 10.00am-12.30pm. A spokesperson for the Church said: “We will have

the daily newspapers and an area for playing board games. “We are looking forward to including craft lessons and a communal jigsaw area in the future. “We are hoping lots of new, and old friends will come along and try the new menu in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.”

At the beginning of the month, Durham County Council, Trading Standards and Durham Constabu-lary’s Harm Reduction Unit carried out a joint test purchase operation in the Ferryhill area. Eight premises were visited during the operation of which four failed, selling alcohol to a 16-year-old volunteer. The persons selling to the volunteer have all been issued with a £90 ticket for the offence of selling

alcohol anywhere to a person aged under 18.

Eight fined for selling alcohol to minors

New menu at St Luke’s on Fridays

Eight premises in Ferryhill were caught selling alcohol to an underage volunteer in a recent test purchase operation.

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Martin Griffiths and his son Samuel take part in the Great North Run for Butterwick Hospice in memory of Martin’s wife and Samuel’s mum, Judy.

Edith Whitfield, who was Mayor of Ferryhill at the millen-nium has passed away at the age of 95 years.

Run for local lives

Butterwick Hospice is en-couraging readers of the Chapter to support the charity by taking part in the Great North Run and raising funds.A spokesperson for But-terwick said: “The Great North Run is one of the North East’s biggest chal-lenges and readers can run for Butterwick Hospice and grab our wonderful ‘perks package’ spon-sored by Ramside Spa, as you cross the finish line. “This year we are offering you the chance to request your entry fee back if you achieve the sponsorship goal. And if you don’t

want to run alone, why not gather a team and tackle it together?“We want you to get com-petitive and undertake the #TeamButterwick challenge as part of our #RunForButterwick initia-tive. “Whether you’re joining forces with loved ones, best friends, colleagues or your running club mates, there’s an opportunity for friendly rivalry with our other #TeamButterwick entrants.”Butterwick Hospice will be awarding four teams a prize for the following categories: Best Fancy Dress; Fastest Average Time; Highest Average Fundraising Total and Most Creative Fundraising Activity.“There will also be an exciting league table for our teams to see how each team is performing week-on-week with training and their average times and fundraising totals,” they added. “Our lovely pin up

photograph is of Butter-wick Hospice Ambassador, Martin Griffiths, who ran for the Hospice, and his gorgeous son, Samuel, who ran in the Mini Great North Run! “Martin runs in memory of his beautiful wife Judy, who so sadly lost her battle with cancer when Samuel was only five months old.“Because of the support of local people who raise funds for Butterwick Hospice Care our team of skilled doctors, nurses and family support workers were able to support Martin and his family. “Now he works alongside Butterwick Hospice as an Ambassador to help ensure that Butterwick Hospice is able to help other young families like his.”Runners can sign up at www.butterwick.org.uk/greatnorthrun2017 or call Gail on 01642 628930. The sign up fee is £54 and the findraising goal is £300.

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Millennium Mayor passes away

Drivers beware

Ex-Mayor of Ferryhill, Mrs Edith Whitfield, affection-ately known as Edie, who was mayor at the turn of the millennium, has passed away at the age of 95.Edith spent her early working life in service for Yorkshire mill owners, then in service for houses in a Catterick boys school and ended her working life in Smart and Brown’s, later Thorn’s, factory.She had been very active in voluntary groups in Fer-ryhill all her life, including the Women’s Institute. She appeared on local stages in their concerts and pantos.She was a Miners Welfare and Red Cross volunteer,

a school governor and, being a Labour party member, worked tirelessly to better Ferryhill as a councillor for the Broom ward from 1987. She was a member of the Ferryhill 2000 commit-tee, a member of Friends of Ferryhill and became Mayor of Ferryhill in 2000. Later, in 2007, she was awarded Honorary Burgess of Ferryhill.Mrs Whitfield’s funeral service will be held at St Luke’s Church on Wednes-day 15th February at 1pm before going on to the Wear Valley Crematorium and returning to St Luke’s for refreshments.

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The woman, captured by CCTV at Boots store in North Street, Ferryhill, is believed to have stolen goods to the value of over £750.

Police seek to identify thief who stole over £750 of goods

On Wednesday 11th January, a female entered the Boots store at North Street, Ferryhill and is believed to have stolen a

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On Saturday, 4th February, Spennymoor Police officers responded to concerns about a large group of youths drinking and setting fires in a field behind Gordon Terrace in Ferry-hill. When officers arrived they found two fires had been set underneath low overhead cables and a large congregation of youths gathered around the fires. One female was so drunk she could not stand by herself.

The fire brigade had to be called out to extinguish the bonfires while police dealt with the youths.A police spokesperson said: “The youths were in a field in the middle of nowhere, making it difficult for emergency services to reach the scene. “Had a full scale emergen-cy occured, we would not have been able to access the area with full equip-ment. “Please think of the conse-quences of your behaviour.

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On the march again. County Durham teaching assistants are asking the public to join them on a ‘national day of solidarity’ march in Durham City on Saturday 25th March.

Teaching Assistants to hold ‘day of solidarity’ march

On Saturday 25th March, County Durham Teaching Assistants, who remain in negotiations with Durham County Council over pay and conditions, will be holding a ‘national day of solidar-ity’ march in Durham city centre from 9am, as part of their campaign against the local authority’s plans to slash their pay by 23% while increasing the number of hours they must work.In mid-December, striking teaching assistants secured a postponement of Durham County Council’s threat to dismiss and re-engage the county’s 2,700-strong TA staff at the beginning of January, forcing the authority to return to the negotiating table.DCC’s Labour-led authority has said that a full review of TA job descriptions will take place and is expected to report in September.However, teaching assistant representatives and negoti-ators for Unison, the union that represents most of the county’s TAs have insisted that “significant progress”

must be made by March or they will be forced to return to the picket lines.A spokesperson for County Durham Teaching Assistant Activists, the group formed by TAs to fight the county’s proposals said: “Contrary to what the public may have heard, this dispute is not resolved and no deal has been done. “Unions are still in negotia-tions and TAs are growing impatient with the lack of ‘demonstrable’ progress so far.”The group has led several high profile demonstrations across the county - in-cluding several at County Hall - which have received national attention while Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis has pledged that the union will support striking TAs financially. The spokesperson added: “Durham TAs have had phenomenal support from across the country since their dispute began and they are now calling on everyone to once again join them in a huge show

of solidarity on 25th March to ensure that the council knows that they are going nowhere and time is running out to resolve this once and for all.“The march will be followed by a grassroots-led rally at the beautiful Redhills, home of the Durham Miners’ Associa-tion.”The group is also planning a second all-day vigil at County Hall every day during the half-term break. As with last year’s October break, there will be a permanent demonstration throughout the half-term with shifts of teaching as-sistants volunteering to remain on site from 8am until 5pm every day from Monday to Thursday.As a result of their ongoing campaign, in December Durham’s teaching assis-tants were named by the Independent newspaper in its list of unsung heroes of 2016.

Ferryhill Town Council has organised for Animalstory to visit Ferryhill Library on Thursday 23rd February from 2pm-3pm with their Rainforest Animal session. “This session is suitable for children aged from 3 years to 11 years and is free of charge so why not bring your children along and join in the fun, there are only 35 places available

for this session, tickets are available from Ferryhill Library,” said a spokesper-son.A free leaflet advertising the programme of events organised by Ferryhill Town Council in partnership with Ferryhill Branch Library for the 2017 school holidays will be available shortly from the Town Hall and Ferryhill Library.

Animalstory to visit Ferryhill Library

Major re-surfacing works will be undertaken to the school car park at Chilton Primary School from Monday 20th February for approximately four weeks. Extra traffic, car parking and noise may affect resi-dents from The Grove, New South View, John Herriots Court and Shelley Terrace.

Contractors will be on site from Monday to Thursday 7.30am-3.30pm, Fridays from 7.30am-3pm and Sat-urdays from 7.30am-4pm. A spokesperson said: “Every effort will be made to keep any disruptions to a minimum. The school can be contacted on 01388 720255 or 721619.

School car park re-surfacing works

A 19-year-old man from West Cornforth has been remanded into custody after a Ferryhill couple

were attacked with a broom shank and crowbar.Ellis Joe Shepherd, of Stobb Cross Villas, is accused of trespassing into a property on Sunday 29th January and inflicting grievous bodily harm.Mr Shepherd entered no plea for one charge of ag-gravated burglary when he appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court last week. He is due to appear again at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday, 1st March.

Man charged with aggravated burglary

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Ferryhill Celtic travelled to Chester le Street on Sunday 5th Februrary to take on mid-table Hilda Park FC in the Durham & District Sunday League, returning home with all three points after securing a 2-1 win.The victory sees Celtic leapfrog local rivals Ferry-hill Dynamoes into second place in the table after the Dynamoes went down to a 3-0 loss away at Washing-ton Cross Keys. Celtic are eight points behind leaders, West Rainton FC, but having played just 11 games, have five games in hand over the top side.Celtic started the game strongly, pressing high up the pitch as they looked to take the game to their op-ponents. The strategy worked well, but it took until the 35th minute for the visitors to make the breakthrough with a scrappy goal, the last touch coming from Jason White.The goal was enough to secure a slender half time

lead, but it was Celtic who again showed the initia-tive in the second half and doubled their lead on the hour when Luke Thompson converted a spectacular volley into the top left hand corner of the net.With ten minutes re-maining, Sam Henderson halved the deficit to make for a competitive end to the game, but Celtic saw it through to collect maximum points.Next up is an eagerly awaited Ferryhill derby as Celtic and Dynamoes face off in the JD Taxis Guards Cup semi-final.Celtic will be looking to avenge their only league defeat of the season so far by grabbing the cup final spot ahead of their local rivals.With the changing rooms at Broom Rec still being refurbished, details of the venue will be published on the Ferryhill Celtic Facebook page during the week. Kick off in the big match is scheduled for 10.30am.

Celtic leapfrog Dynamoes after win

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Aidan and Aimee Forster continued their rise up the Thai boxing ranks with yet another successful outing, this time at one of the UK’s top shows, held in Barnsley Metrodome.

Aimee secures European belt as Aidan wins debut Pro-Am

On Sunday 29th January, the burgeoning careers of Ferryhill’s Thai boxing siblings, Aidan and Amiee Forster, continued to flourish as the pair fought on the Super Sandee Show#3, one of the top Thai boxing shows in the UK, at Barnsley Metrodome.Up first was 9-year-old Amiee, fighting an older and very good Dutch girl for a European title.Amiee was rewarded for a great fight, getting the judges’ decision to

be crowned European champion. Aidan too had to step up in class for his bout, fighting in his first pro-am, the rules of which means fighters can also use elbows. Like his sister, Aidan also performed superbly winning by unanimous decision. Both fighters train at Shildon under coach Gary MacAlister at Phoenix Thai Boxing Gym. Phoenix is holding its annual fight show, Time to

Fight 3, on Saturday 29th April at Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre, with a junior fight show through the day and and adult fight show on the night.If any individual or business would be interested in sponsoring a bout, contact Gary through his Facebook page - search for “gaz phoenix thai” on Facebook.If anyone would like to sponsor Aidan and Amiee for the future, contact Michael Forster on 07824 828579.

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