Developer hails Spennymoor’s ‘immense potential’ with £1.6m homes development
November 28th, 2008 by Julie
DETAILS have been unveiled for a £1.6m homes development in Spennymoor.
View PDF View PDF Calling all wannabe Lewis Hamiltons - Be the next World Champion in 2020
November 18th, 2008 by Petula
TO celebrate Lewis Hamilton’s spectacular success in the FI World Racing championship, north-east kids are being offered the opportunity to try out their skills as a future world motor racing 2020 Champion. (more…)
View PDF Henry Williams celebrates 125th anniversary
November 12th, 2008 by Julie
ONE of Britain’s oldest railways-based companies is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
Henry Williams Limited, based in Darlington - the historical home of the railways - has been a major supplier of engineering solutions for the country’s railway network since 1883.
It has grown from humble begi (more…)
View PDF Restaurant dream comes true
November 12th, 2008 by Julie
A COUPLE who have spent more than £650,000 turning a disused country pub into their dream bistro-restaurant have celebrated its first anniversary - with a further £25,000 investment.
When Mike Oldroyd and Carol Nelson first set eyes on The Duke of Wellington, as it was then named, in the rural hamlet of Welbury, between Yarm and Northallerton, it had been shut for a year. (more…)
View PDF Innovative SiS keeps castle historians in the picture during £5m restoration project
November 5th, 2008 by Julie
IMAGINATIVE photographic techniques developed by a surveying technology company are playing a key role in a major restoration project about to begin at one of Britain’s most important historical monuments.
Survey Inspection Systems (SiS) Limited, based in Spennymoor, County Durham, is providing English Heritage with highly detailed video images from inside chimney flues and other shafts at Dover Castle, in Kent - a site most famous for its labyrinth of secret tunnels that stretch out under the English Channel. (more…)
View PDF Crisis? What crisis? As homebuyers flock for a parkland view
November 3rd, 2008 by Julie
HOMEBUYERS have shrugged off the supposed crisis in the housing market by turning out in record numbers for an open day at a new development.
In less than eight hours, more than 250 people visited Riverside Grange, a small development of two houses and nine apartments overlooking South Park, in Darlington.
The show apartment was reserved on the day and sales staff from the developer gave out in excess of 200 brochures. (more…)
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