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Council chiefs have warned motorists that two hour parkig limit has always been in place and will be enforced - after people thought it has been…

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PARENTS are being given just five minutes to drop their children off at a County Durham athletics club before being hit with parking fines.

PARENTS are being given just five minutes to drop their children off at a County Durham athletics club before being hit with parking fines.

News - Teesdale Mercury

They spend several hours cleaning the signs for free Picture: CONTRIBUTOR Explaining how it all started Mr Underwood said: "It was actually my birthday on Tuesday and I had no plans and had some free time to do it. "Wed bought the equipment a couple of weeks ago seeing a some signs in Trimdon and Sedgefield, which as you go past you struggle to see the words." Mr Underwood, who runs Fishburn-based Master Grafix, managed to persuade his business parter, Mr Cudworth and friend Mr Bennett t...

The lads that have been cleaning dirty road signs in County Durham entirely for free Pictures: CONTRIBUTOR A GROUP of friends spent the day cleaning grime from almost 60 signs across County Durham this week - and have vowed to do it every week for free. Macauley Underwood, along with Louis Cudworth and Matthew Bennett, spent several hours clearing years worth of moss and dirt from road signs on Tuesday. Mr Underwood, who said the signs had become increasingly difficult to read, said he...

By • 21 Feb 2021 U-TURN CONSIDERED: The current proposed route of the A66 at Rokeby. The route to Barnard Castle would be for HGVs. Cars would go via Cross Lanes where a new junction is planned. However, this would lead to an increase in traffic through Startforth and the CAMPAIGNERS say they are encouraged by talks taking place to stop large numbers of vehicles being re-routed through Barnard Castle because of changes to the A66. Under proposals revealed late last year, HGVs driving f...

Anger as lorry drivers caught urinating and human waste left in village near Amazon Durham Pictures: CONTRIBUTORS A COUNTY Durham village has been “blighted” by human faeces and drivers urinating in public following the opening of Amazon’s latest warehouse nearby. Residents living in Tursdale, near the Integra 61 industrial estate, say they have been left “angry and disgusted” following months of hauliers serving Amazon Durham using the village as a makeshift rest stop. Amazon ...