Come along to Applefest! It’s a free, fun, family apple-themed event. Saturday 25 November 2017, 1-4pm, Laurel Avenue Community Centre. There will be games, craft activities and live music. Come and see the apple press in action! Taste the delicious apple juice. Help with planting some apple trees in the garden. Free soup and bread.

Major works which will mean easier journeys for everyone on the main route through Durham City will start at the end of January. Following consultation in 2015, Durham County Council’s £2.5m SCOOT system will see traffic lights installed on the Gilesgate and Leazes Bowl roundabouts during 2016. The installation of the traffic lights will also […]

A scheme to cut congestion by installing traffic lights on Leazes Bowl and Gilesgate roundabouts is set to be delayed again. Durham County Council is having to carry out further traffic surveys as part of its bodged County Plan process to be able to justify the Plan. Work which was due to start at Gilesgate […]

City centre residents have contacted us concerned about the news of the poor air quality in Durham City centre.  We hope that this response will explain what the problem is and what the Council needs to do about it. The Environment Act 1995 requires the Council to undertake assessments of local air quality across County Durham. […]

Local Liberal Democrat Councillors David Freeman and Richard Ormerod are pleased to see that the plan to extend the opening hours of the drug & alcohol treatment centre at Whinney Hill have been withdrawn. The centre opened last year on condition that it only opened during daytimes. But late last year those running the centre […]

Local Liberal Democrats are celebrating the 65th birthday of the National Health Service today. Elvet & Gilesgate Cllr Richard Ormerod said: “I am delighted to see that the NHS is 65 today, and certainly not ready for retirement! “After 65 years it is in pretty good health, with more funding than ever before in its history. “I […]