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Councillors have clashed over multi-million plans to regenerate Bishop Auckland town centre, with Labour labelling an ambitious council project a…

Derry-based In Your Space Circus (IYSC) has announced plans  to develop the Cathedral School, located at St Columb’s Cathedral in Derry’s Cathe...

Durham County Council is pressing ahead with aspirations to improve sustainable transport and parking infrastructure in Bishop Auckland. The council…

A new bus station and improved car parking facilities are proposed to transform Bishop Auckland town centre.

A military parade is being held in a County Durham town to remember those who lost their lives serving the country.

Hopes to regenerate a County Durham town have been given a further boost following the sale of a key shopping centre to the local authority.

Poundland is closing down its Bishop Auckland store on Newgate Street Picture: JIM SCOTT A HIGH street chain has become one of the latest to confirm the closure of its shop in Bishop Auckland town centre as a statement has been issued. Poundland, which moved into the former X Catelogue Store on Newgate Street around a decade ago, will close down for good on Wednesday, June 2. Signs have gone up in the past week, with items being sold off with as much as 50 per cent taken off the price.  ...

Bishop Auckland’s New Look based in the Newgate Centre is to close down.  The shop had been closed since the first lockdown, in March 2020, due to its small size making it impossible for a one-way system and for social distancing to work.  It had recently reopened on April 12 when non-essential shops could reopen.  This comes after plans submitted to Durham County Council, by the Department of Work and Pensions to move the Job Centre to the Newgate Centre. The plans could see the...

AFTER plans were revealed to close a vital entranceway to a shopping centre many are still up in arms about it.

THE owners of a shopping centre have spoken after development plans caused controversy with local traders. ESTAMA UK which owns the Newgate Shopping Centre in Bishop Auckland has responded to recent criticism to plans to move the Job Centre into three retail units. The Department of Work and Pensions submitted a planning application to Durham County Council to move the Job Centre in the Newgate Centre. The units would be merged to create the new Job Centre, however in doing so one of th...