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Issue No 277 At the heart of our wonderful community Saturday 11th January 2020

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Bishop Press director, Jeff Ridley (back left) helped open the 19th Advent window at Peekaboo with the children of St Wilfrid’s RCVA Primary School and shop owner, Chloe Watson (back right). The children created a model of Asher, one of the 12 sons of Jacob.

IT HAS been another busy year for the volunteers on the events sub-group of the Bishop Auckland Town Team.

Nigel Bryson, Chairman of the Town Team said: “It began in March with the Easter Eggstravaganza which included the annual Easter Egg Hunt, where there were twelve baskets of eggs in the windows of twelve shops around the town centre.

“Then, over 25 local independent shops and

businesses got involved with the town team initia-tive, Shop Local, over the Bishop Auckland Food Festival weekend in April.”

The Classic and Vintage Car Show took place in the Market Place on Sunday 14th July, which included music from the Tees Val-ley Jazz Men.

Clive Auld, Chair of the Events Team, said: “The annual Bishop Buskers Day, organised by the Town Team, took place in July and performers

included Ami Leigh Boor-man from Bishop Auck-land, Ryan Lofthouse from Stanley Crook who appeared on the 2019 series of The Voice Kids, Lucy Playle playing the saxophone all the way from Easington, Big Vern and Charlotte from Wit-ton Park and Kev Baldam from Coundon.”

A new event for 2019 was Buses Thru The Ages, when classic and vintage buses including United, OK Motor Services, The

Eden and Lockeys took over Bishop Auckland Market Place and the North Bondgate Car Park on Sunday 28th July.

This event took place in partnership with the North East Bus Preserva-tion Trust and members of the public enjoyed free rides around the town.

Town Team member, Lee Brownson said: “The biggest event of the year took place at the end of

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PLANS TO invest almost £63 million in leisure services across County Durham could see Wood-house Close Leisure Cen-tre replaced by a brand new state-of-the-art building.

Durham County Council is proposing to transform leisure provision across the county with plans to create more modern, innovative services which better meet the needs of residents and visitors.

It is hoped the plans will also encourage more people to participate in physical activity, thereby improving the overall health and wellbeing of the population.

As well as replacing the outdated facility in Bishop Auckland, there are sim-ilar plans to replace the Seaham and Chester-le-Street buildings with new, purpose-built centres.

Feasibility studies would be carried out before any decisions were made on the design and location of any new buildings.

The plans also include work to refurbish and refresh other centres and introduce an innova-tive programme of new classes and activities.

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The programme is being managed by co-founders and directors of Trades-4Care, Andrew Coxon and Charlie Wright, supported by trade colleague and trusted partner, Nigel Ste-vens.

Andrew said: “It’s clear that we are helping the community and the feed-back and interest we have received over the past few months from local community and care pro-jects, colleges and organ-isations has been really

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“The grant from the Gaunless Gateway Big Local will be used along-side the financial and programme commitment made from Bishop Auck-land College and wider interest from other col-leges and organisations to deliver further pro-grammes for local young people over the coming months.”

Michelle Andelin, Learn-ing Area Manager for Con-struction and Motor Vehi-cle at Bishop Auckland College, added: ‘‘Trades-4Care not only gives our learners first-hand experi-ence in a working environ-ment, but also a valuable programme in which they develop their communi-cation, team building and employability skills.

“Every one of our learn-ers who has taken part in the initial projects has had a fantastic time.

“We can’t thank Trad-es4Care enough for this wonderful opportunity and are looking forward to other joint projects next year.”

RESIDENTS AT a County Durham care home received an early Christ-mas present with a make-over from dedicated painting and decorating students studying their trade at Bishop Auckland College.

West Lodge Care Home in Crook has a newly deco-rated lounge, dining room and corridors thanks to the talented team of five, who have been working with Trades4Care.

The innovative Commu-nity Interest Company gives young people valu-able work experience as part of a wider holistic life skills and employa-bility programme by pair-ing them with qualified tradespersons to work on maintenance projects at

healthcare, education and community venues.

Kate Lyons, General Manager of West Lodge Care Home, was delighted with the new look.

She said: “We’ve had a brilliant two weeks here at West Lodge thanks to Trades4Care and the local young people who have transformed one of our resident lounges, din-ing room and corridors.

“They have really done a fantastic job and the standard of work has been first class.

“Hats off to the stu-dents, who have left a lasting impression.

“The residents have loved having them and they even received a spontaneous round of applause when they had

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September, with Bishop Celebrating Together.

“Thousands of peo-ple turned out to enjoy a variety of singers and performers on the main stage and the children enjoyed the grassed play area with giant toys and games.

“The popular Hallowe’en event, Monster Saturday, took place at the end of October, with magic, illu-sions and spooky danc-ing.”

Alan Anderson added: “In November, the town showcased a drive towards alternative ways to travel when the Electric Vehicle Roadshow came to town.

“Electric bikes and cars were on display and ready to ride in Bishop Auckland Market Place, and people took up the chance to give greener transport a go.

“December ended the year in style with over 30 local shops and busi-nesses joining in with Shop Local Indie-cem-ber by putting on a spe-cial offer throughout the month of December.”

David Pott said: “Advent Windows once again saw Bishop Auckland Town Centre turned into a giant advent calendar.

A total of 24 shops and businesses took part, offering space in their windows for 24 schools, community groups and organisations to create

an advent display. “This year’s theme

involved the construction of 24 life size models to help celebrate the unique heritage of Bishop Auck-land and the traditional nativity story.

“On Christmas Eve morning, more than a hundred people gathered at the Stan Laurel statue at the start of a parade through the town.

“On arrival at Auckland Castle, all the models were assembled on the altar steps at St Peter’s Chapel and Paul Butler, the Bishop of Durham, revealed the last model of the infant Jesus which was placed in front of the contemporary models of Jesus and Mary.”

December also saw a record number of over 700 children come to see Santa over the three Sat-urdays in No.42 Market Place and the Newgate Shopping Centre.

There was some fes-tive entertainment from vocalists Steven Berry and Ruth Stapleton and the service users at Inno-vations.

The team are now busy organising events for 2020.

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TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to a Bishop Auckland motorcyclist who died in a Boxing Day crash.

The family of Carl Pep-per say they are heartbro-ken at their loss.

The 26-year-old died after his red Suzuki 600cc motorcycle crashed on South Church Industrial Estate, close to the junc-tion with the A688.

Emergency services were alerted at around 2.15am and despite the efforts of police and ambulance service crews, Mr Pepper was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

His family have released a statement paying trib-ute to their “beloved son”.

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Carl Pepper was killed after his motorbike crashed in South Church.

They said: “Our beloved son Carl will be sadly missed by his parents Kevin and Trudy, steppar-ents Alex Berry and Rich-ard Reid, his sisters Lisa Marie Prince and Melanie Hubbard and his friends.

“Carl was taken from us far too soon and our hearts are broken.

“Goodnight our son. We love you and we will miss you, until we meet again”.

Accident investigators are appealing for any wit-nesses to the crash to get in touch as soon as pos-sible.

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Cllr Carl Marshall, Dur-ham County Council’s Cabinet member for economic regeneration, said: “Our proposed pro-gramme of transforma-tion represents a massive investment in leisure over the coming years and reflects our desire to be at the forefront of chang-ing trends in leisure pro-vision.

“Reviewing our current offer has shown that there are significant opportu-nities for us to increase

participation in physical activity by providing a more vibrant, cost-effec-tive service that better meets customers’ expec-tations.

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NEW LEISURE CENTRE PLANS FOR BISHOPall 15 of the county’s lei-sure centres.

As well as the plans for new buildings, Consett, Newton Aycliffe, Wols-ingham and Teesdale would see the introduc-tion of new activities and a refreshed look.

Abbey and Freeman’s Quay in Durham, Louisa Centre in Stanley, Peter-lee, and Spennymoor would see refurbishment work and the installation of new equipment.

Meadowfield and Shildon will retain their facilities and create greater links with other services within the local community.

Riverside, in partner-ship with Durham County Football Association, Dur-ham County Cricket Club, Park View Academy and the Football Foundation will develop the site and increase coaching oppor-tunities.

The proposals are set to be discussed by the council’s Cabinet when it meets at County Hall on Wednesday, 15th Janu-ary.

Bishop Auckland looks set to benefit from a brand new state-of-the-art leisure centre if plans are approved by Cabinet next week.

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No experience is required and people of all faiths or no faith are wel-come.

Roles include men, women and children of all ages wanted as Middle Eastern families.

Temple people - men and women dressed as people attending syna-gogues and temples and some as priests are also needed, as are Roman sol-diers and temple guards.

Recruitment drives are taking place at the Pod, No.42 Market Place on 1. Saturday 11th January at 11am and Wednesday 15th January at 7pm.

There will be an ‘Alto-gether Passion Reveal’ held on Friday 17th Janu-ary from 7-8.30pm at the Pod and this event will be for everyone in the Pas-sion Play team, namely

actors and cast, admin, technical team (sound, music, live streaming), stage and sets construc-tion, costumes, make-up, stewards and ushers, pro-ject management, safety and security, marketing and publicity, partners and sponsors.

The Bishop Auckland Passion Play will be rep-resenting the whole of the North of England in the national event, which takes place on Good Fri-day.

The ninety minute per-formances will take place simultaneously across the whole country at 12 noon and 3.15pm, includ-ing in the Market Place in Bishop Auckland.

Other locations include the cities of Bath, Liver-pool, and Glasgow.

“Come and join us,” said pprducer, Rev Eileen Har-rop. “We are still hoping for 50 more people to join the Passion Play team and for 5,000 people to come to the Market Place on Good Friday, the 10th of April this year.”

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TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to a woman who died in a crash near Shildon during the Christmas hol-idays.

The family of Eleanor Anderson, from Cleckhea-ton in West Yorkshire, who died following a two-vehi-cle collision on the A689 Coundon Bypass, have described her as “a much-loved mother, daughter and sister”.

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The U12 Aces lost out away at Richmond. Jack Chadwell and Kyle King scored for the Aces.

The U12 Kings lost out 3-2 in a great game against Leven with Joel Butler and Jack Dale scor-ing for the Kings.

The U11 Aces lost out to Hartlepool in a close game in which Charlie Cranston starred.

The U10 Aces enjoyed a great win away at Stock-ton with Alex Simpson scoring twice.

The U10 Kings had an exciting game against

Hurworth while the U9 Kings had a great win in the cup away at Kader with goals from Zac Taberer, Jack Liddle and Edward Machan who found the net a remarka-ble five times.

The U9 Aces also had a close game against Leven while the U8 Aces had a great win in the cup against Newton Aycliffe.

This week sees 14 matches scheduled to take place on Sunday with nine at home to look forward to as well as an exciting match between Bishop Auckland FC U18s and Spennymoor U18s at Heritage Park, kicking off at 1pm on Saturday (11th).

ST MARY’S Juniors have had a good start to the new year with twelve matches taking place last weekend, including five cup matches.

The U16s reached the cup semi finals after a 5-3 win away at Darlington RA with goals from Matty Maughan, Ben Connor, Robbie Vickers and Bailey Wainwright double.

The U14s had a very exciting cup game ending 1-1 with a goal from Ethan Flint, but went out 5-4 on penalties to Whinney Banks in a tense penalty shoot out.

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BISHOP AUCKLAND Table Tennis Club has launched three brand new table tennis sessions.

The Auckland Youth and Community Centre will host a disability session on a Wednesday morn-ings from 10.30am until 12.30pm, open to every-one with a disability to go along and try the game out and enjoy table tennis.

Thanks to support of Believe housing and Table Tennis England the club have also started Bat & Chat sessions, which are social table tennis ses-sions designed just for fun with chatting encour-aged.

These sessions are ideal if you are looking to get more active or back into the sport.

The session take place on Fridays from 10.30am until 12 noon, also at the Auckland Youth and Com-munity Centre.

The disability and Bat and chat sessions are £3 per person. Carers are also welcome and play for free.

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TABLE TENNIS CLUB OFFERS THREE NEW SESSIONS

The sessions are designed to give the whole family an activity they can all play together without the high cost of paying per person.

The sessions, which take place on Saturday mornings from 10.30am - 12.30pm at the club’s centre at Bishop Barring-ton School, cost £5 per family and large families are welcome, the more the merrier.

All sessions will have qualified coaches in attendance and have all equipment provided

“We listened to feed-back from users and the community before decid-ing the best sessions to offer,” said Club Chair-man, Matt Porter.

“Our mission has always been to offer table tennis for everyone,” he added, “and these new sessions really help us to offer even more opportunities to play table tennis for the com-munity.”

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