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Visitors to the open lab can enter the temporary workspace, handle artefacts, hear updates from the team, and help sort and record finds. Professor Chris Gerrard, from Durham University’s Department of Archaeology, added: “Rather than only seeing objects in display cases, this exposes the process behind discovery. It’s hands-on and accessible.

Shildon Alive received a generous cheque from the Busy Bees, based in Shildon, County Durham.

On the threshold between labour and creation, body and mind blur in a quickening spiral. Two workers harness their powers of creation to free themselves from eternal drudgery – beckoned to pioneer a new world. CARRIAGE is to be performed at The Shildon Institute on Friday 6 February!

A Mr Mike Norman will be presenting a plaque to the Mayor and a small 10-minute presentation talk/handover title - 'Timothy Hackworth is coming home'.

Shildon Town Council hosted the first Community Christmas Lunch on 9 December, at Shildon Civic Hall with thanks to funding from previous Mayor, Cllr Shirley Quinn’s mayors appeal, Livin, Cleveland Cable Company Ltd and Jake Pearson from Shildon AFC.

It’s not looking any better for the Veterans Hub for the coming months. Even though it is great to see some of the Veterans return and enjoy the craic, we continue to need veterans and their families to attend.

On Wednesday 14 January in Middridge Village Hall, Chris Lloyed makes a welcome return with ‘Attacking the Devil and Sinking the Unsinkable’. His subject is WT Stead, the greatest Victorian reformer you’ve never heard of.

A council has partnered with Sport England to get people in County Durham moving by increasing accessibility to sport and physical activity.

If the other promises have been fulfilled then why not the promise of peace? People will wish each other peace and goodwill this Christmas, but peace is not just for Christmas, or for Shildon or for the UK; it is a gift that needs to be shared all over the world. 

A much-needed new group for families with young children is launching at Jubilee Fields Community Centre this January, thanks to the dedicated work of Community Support Worker, Caroline Dunn and NHS Family Peer Supporter, Catherine Hunter.