The focus this week continues on consultation, along with some interesting community reports and things to do as we approach the school holidays. Find out more about all the following on my blog at: bit.ly/CNB42

COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY NEWS

• Did you comment on the County Durham Plan’s proposals on Housing?

• Have you considered the County Durham Plan’s proposals on Fast Food Takeaways?

• County Hall is moving – what do you think?

• The NHS is proposing to stop offering a number of treatments that have been shown to not be clinically effective; have your say.

• The July Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership – GAMP ebulletin is published.

• Great Aycliffe Multi-Agency Anti-Social Behaviour group, Thursday 5 July.

• Friends of the S&DR meeting and Chair’s Report, Thursday 5 July

• Last week’s Middridge Fête, Saturday 7 July.

• Well done Aycliffe Business Park’s ‘The Work Place’, ten years old.

THINGS TO DO

• Cirque Berserk, at the Darlington Hippodrome, 17-22 July, tickets £12-£28.50.

• Summer of Fun, Beamish Museum, 21 July-29 August (entrance fee).

• Archaemenid (Persian) Empire (5-11s), Durham Oriental Museum, 1-3pm, Saturday 21 July.

• Facial reconstruction from a skull (5-11s), Palace Green Library, 1-3pm, 21-22 July.

• Life in the Reeds (all ages), Low Barns Nature Reserve, 1-3pm, Sunday 22 July, £3.

• Classic Car Rally, Locomotion Museum Shildon, 10am-5pm, Sunday 22 July.

• Gruffalo Trail, Hardwick Park, 1-3pm, 22 July – 22 September, £2.