Joanne Akarsu, left, and Bethany Kay outside the Rib N Reef restaurant in Durham Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT A COUNTY Durham family has just opened their latest venture, transforming a former fashion shop into a brand new high end steak and seafood restaurant. After more than five months, and one national lockdown, the former Psyche in Durham City has been left barely recognisable as the family-run Rib N Reef opened this week. Owned by Durham family, Joanne and Cengiz Akarsu, and managed by daughter Bethany Kay, the restaurant has been among the highly-anticipated names to come to the city. It comes as a string of independents including The Curious Mr Fox, The Butcher s Deli and Stirks Steakhouse in Belmont have opened across Durham in the past few weeks.
The borough has been hard hit by the pandemic and in December held the unwanted record of the local authority with the highest proportion of Covid deaths in the UK. It is, therefore, exactly the kind of place the government has in mind while pledging to address inequalities and âbuild back betterâ.
Student nurse Grace Kenney in Ashton-under-Lyne. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Walker diagnoses a number of issues facing the town, from littering to low police numbers but, fittingly for a bus driver, his main bugbear is with local transport.
â[Greater] Manchester doesnât have the worst transport system but the government has slashed budgets in recent years, and it is poorer areas like Droylsden and Denton which suffer,â he says. âI know Andy Burnham is trying to make public transport affordable for everyone but the system is underfunded.â
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front of the Thomaston Public Library, 248 Main St.
Here she puts the finishing touches on Dorothy from Frank L. Baum’s book, “TheWonderful Wizard of Oz.” Dorothy is joined by other characters and thefamous yellow brick road, which leads into the library. The library is now open Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, call 860-283-4339 or
visit the library’s website: thomastonlibrary.org where you can also view a virtual art show featuring work by the Ten-2-One Artists.
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