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THOUSANDS of children across the North-East without devices or an internet connection have been left unable to complete schoolwork while home learning, but businesses across the region have rallied together to get children online.  Scores of firms around the region have stepped up to provide vital resources for children struggling to access learning materials during lockdown.  There have been widespread efforts to tackle the digital divide, including The Northern Echo joining forces with rival publishers across the North to launch the Cash for Connectivity appeal. The emergency fu...

Peter Gibson MP, Steven Hindmarch (Hellens Group), Natalie Palmer (Latimer Hinks), Matthew Wharton (Wharton Construction) and Kate Chisholm (Head teacher at Skerne Park Academy) A HOST of Darlington businesses have answered Peter Gibson's appeal to provide laptops for children at Skerne Park Academy. The Darlington MP made the appeal after learning that a number of pupils from the primary school on Coleridge Gardens did not have the devices as they need to enable remote learning during the third national coronavirus lockdown. Local and Darlington-based including Hellens Group, Latimer...

New Aldi to be built as former shopping centre in County Durham is demolished The supermarket development is part of the council's ongoing regeneration work across County Durham Get the latest County Durham news and updates delivered straight to your inbox - sign up for free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your d...

Michael Jonas and Gavin Cordwell-Smith A GROUP that has businesses in the construction, manufacturing, property and social housing sectors across the North-East and North Yorkshire has invested in excess of £1m in its Catterick manufacturing plant, Oakdale. Within the past 18 months the facility, which produces sustainably sourced building products and paving, has benefitted from the seven-figure investment from Hellens Group to create a new manufacturing line which has more than doubled its capacity. Oakdale employs 30 people directly and in the 25 years since it was established, it h...

RICHMOND MP Rishi Sunak visited a Catterick-based manufacturing plant, which specialises in sustainable paving, to learn more about how the facility is expanding following the Covid-19 pandemic. Hellens Group, which has businesses in the construction, manufacturing, property and social housing sectors across the North East, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire welcomed Mr Sunak to the environmentally-friendly Oakdale plant. The visit took place before the current pandemic restrictions on travel were introduced. Hellens Group has been able to accelerate expansion plans, thanks in part to a st...