Some important meetings this week, and the all-important Climate Change consultation, plus some interesting events next weekend.

Find out more about all the following on my blog at: bit.ly/CNB130

COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY NEWS

• DCC Cabinet meeting, Wednesday 11 September (County Durham Vision; Safeguarding and Corporate Parenting; Performance Management; C&YP Commissioning; Council Activity; DCC’s Digital Strategy).

• DCC Full Council meeting, Wednesday 18 September (Leader’s Report; Weardale AAP; Cabinet Report; Audit Committee; Parental Leave motion).

• DCC Economy Scrutiny meeting, Tuesday 24 September (North East Local Industrial Strategy; Selective licensing; EVs; Performance Management).

• DCC’s Climate Change consultation.

• GAMP Board meeting, Tuesday 24 September (Neighbourhood Policing; Education Services Update).

• GAMP funding available: welfare (£10,000), youth (£9,902), social isolation (£25,000).

• PREVENT – Countering Far-Right extremism.

• Climate Strike, Friday 20 September.

• Aycliffe Business Park News and Networking, Friday 20 September.

THINGS TO DO NEXT WEEK

• ‘Lord of the Flies’, Gala Theatre Durham, 30 September-5 October (various times and prices).

• Shildon Model Railway Club Exhibition, Locomotion Museum, 10am-5pm 5-6 October, FREE.

• Dark Skies, Low Barns Nature Reserve, 7pm Sunday 6 October, £5, book on 0191 584 3112.

AYCLIFFE RADIO

• The ‘Big Story’ on POLITICAL / Aycliffe Radio, 6-7:30pm, Sunday 29 September will be ‘The Labour Party Conference’ with conference attendees Laura Daly, Brenda Stephenson and Michael Priestley, and listener-guest Donna Timmiss: bit.ly/ARLIVE