Fence Houses

Images taken at Joe’s Pond on 25 May 2010.

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A WOMAN has died after being hit by a reversing refuse van in a busy shopping street. Pedestrian Alison Rodger was hit by a council-owned flatbed van in Front Street, Chester-le-Street shortly after 2pm on Wednesday when the area was crowded with shoppers. The 44-year-old, from Great Lumley, was taken to the University Hospital of [...]

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Saturday 5th June 2010 11am – 4pm Durham Wildlife Trust HQ Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve Houghton-Le-Spring Tel: 0191 512 8948 Free Admission Learn about wildlife and have fun, with displays and activities for all ages, including rare breed livestock, birds of prey display, conservation exhibits, face painting, tradition crafts, live music and daning, refershments and [...]

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The novels are not consciously auto-biographical. But they certainly gave me a way of writing about a region I knew intimately, for I was born on the Durham coalfield in 1947 and grew up in the mining village of Fencehouses. Also, like Bob Henderson, I am an academic, having worked in universities for over thirty [...]

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Published Date: 28 April 2010 By Kevin Clark EXCLUSIVE A major hotel, shopping and leisure development could create more than 800 jobs. Roseberry Leisure wants to build an £8.5million 120-bedroom hotel, 90,000sq ft supermarket and 3,000-seater arena at the Rainton Bridge Business Park. The plan would see the Rainton Meadows arena demolished and the supermarket [...]

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