Transport and Logistics Network
A MONUMENTAL community effort to help Ukrainian refugees has seen the first of four lorry loads of vital supplies preparing to set off for Poland.Kathryn Rooney, a Durham County Councillor for Consett North who teamed up with Jo Soulsby of Shotley…
A COUNTY Durham team of volunteers ready to send thousands of donations to Ukrainian refugees have spoken of their frustration because post-Brexit rules means they can’t.Volunteers in the Consett and Shotley Bridge area were due to send the first of fo…
When Consett councillor Kathryn Rooney decided to collect a few things to send to the Ukraine, she asked on Facebook if friends and family wanted to help her out.
Four days and four trucks later, the County Durham town has pulled out all the stops, wit…
A heartless burglar swiped a purse full of cash from the County Durham home of an elderly woman who suffers from dementia.
Colin Quinn walked into the vulnerable woman’s home via her back garden and stole her purse which may have contained up to £1,000…
A NORTH East personal trainer is among those heading from the UK to Poland to deliver donations to people fleeing Ukraine.Mike Hind, who was awarded an MBE at Windsor Castle this year for his work in the pandemic, is planning to drive essentials to the…
A THIRD-STRIKE burglar, with a history of preying on elderly victims, has been jailed for his latest sneak-in dwelling crime.Colin Anthony Quinn took a purse from a house occupied by a dementia sufferer who was unaware she had been the victim of the cr…
A NORTH EAST Olympic canoe coach has called on Great Britain’s Paralympic team to pull out of the games in Beijing to help “change the whole course of events in Ukraine”.David Train, who was born in Stockton, spent 12 years as a Great Britain Olympic c…
A COUNTY Durham village community has rallied around three Ukrainian truckers after the HGV drivers became stuck on an industrial estate with no hope of getting back to their war-torn country.On Saturday (February 26), Langley Moor postman, Jim Clark, …
A County Durham mum of two has hit out at the UK’s largest replacement window company after waiting nearly seven years for repairs to be carried out.
Nichola Cameron, 49, says there have been a catalogue of issues since the windows and doors were fitte…
The North East Satellite Applications Centre of Excellence is inviting businesses to learn more about the growing space industry in the North East at its upcoming conference next month.The New Frontier: North East Space Conference, which is being …