Two very important DCC meetings, an inspiring PCP AGM, plus the Great Aycliffe Festival and lots of other things to do. Full details on my blog at: bit.ly/CNB197
COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY
• DCC Cabinet meeting report – Council finances, Safeguarding, Health & Wellbeing, SEND, C&YPS, Housing White Paper.
• DCC Environment Scrutiny Committee report – woodlands, air quality, waste.
• DCC signs Memorandum of Understanding with Durham University to work together to attract talent, money and business to the County.
• Worklessness in County Durham rose from 10.4% to 11.5%, January-April 2017.
• 12 sites in DCC parks, cemeteries & crematoriums have been awarded Green Flag status.
• GAMP Board meeting report.
• GATC Environment and Recreation meetings’ report.
• Latest local roadworks.
• PCP AGM report.
• ‘Civic Theatre’ scam.
• Tekmar lands East Anglia windfarm contract.
THINGS TO DO
• This year’s Great Aycliffe Festival programme is impressive.
• Summer Holidays Activities for Children & Young People in Shildon and Newton Aycliffe.
• Skerne Archaeology talk, Aycliffe Village Hall, 7:30pm, Tuesday 25 July.
• Mini-archaeological dig for children (5-11), Durham Oriental Museum, 1-4pm, Friday 28 July.
• Roma Antiqua re-enactment group, Archaeology Museum Palace Green, 11am-3pm, Saturday 29 July.
• Fabulous Flowers and a touchable Hindu Shrine (5-11s), Durham Oriental Museum, 1-3pm, Saturday 29 July.
• Make a DLI remembrance poster (5-11s), Palace Green Library, 1-3pm, 29-30 July.
• Stationary engine rally, Locomotion Museum Shildon, 10am-5pm, 29-30 July.
