A pioneering five-year project, launched to raise a wider public acceptance and understanding of the region’s Down’s syndrome community, draws to a close today (Sunday, March 12) with a celebrity book launch.
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One of Britain’s top artistic blacksmiths, originally commissioned to deliver a stunning local memorial to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11, has been sworn-in as a Gentleman Freeman of Durham City.
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Three unconnected organisations, supporting hundreds of stroke victims, people recovering from mental illness, along with cancer sufferers and bereaved families, are the latest charities to receive cash from a bumper festive fund distributed by Durham City Freemen’s Charitable Trust.
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Two charities, supporting vulnerable children and young adults in Durham, are the latest to benefit from a £6,000 festive pot of cash earmarked for a dozen organisations by the city’s freemen.
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The County Durham Foodbank - which provides emergency food parcels to thousands of local people in crisis - is the first of ten charities to benefit from a bumper festive hand-out of cash from Durham City’s Freemen.
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Butchers’ Company Warden Mac Williams J.P. has been sworn in as a Freeman of the City of London in the capital’s Guild Hall during a ceremony which dates back to 1237.
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A specialist craftsman has stepped back in time, dusting down skills learned more than sixty years ago, to give a cash-strapped community charity a helping hand.
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A scuba-diver, a priest and a recently retired plumber were the latest newcomers to be welcomed into the freemen’s ranks at the Martinmas Guild Day in the town hall.
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A month- long programme of school-holiday breaks for young people from a string of former pit villages around Durham, was given a “massive boost” by the city’s freemen.
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Members of a top marching jazz band returned from a national competition in Wales with an extra spring in their step after winning no fewer than a dozen first prizes and five runners-up spots.
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