Issue No 977 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 31st July 2020 INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS COMPLETE MULTIMILLION-POUND INFRASTRUCTURE works at a site, which is primed for a key role in County Durham’s economic recovery from the coro- navirus pandemic, are now complete. The improvements, at junction 61 of the A1(M), at Bowburn, will significantly improve access to the Integra 61 development, which is set to become a premier industrial and logistics location, as well as addressing longstand- ing congestion and safety issues. The 205-acre site, The Ferryhill Remembers Group with their fantastic poppy net, which marks the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day. owned and being devel- oped by Citrus Group, will provide three million sq ft of high quality indus- POPPIES MARK VICTORY OVER JAPAN trial and logistics space THE FERRYHILL One of the fantastic Anniversary of VJ Day. ladies said: “The team as well as 270 residential Remembers group is projects they have com- Falling on 15th August, have done and continue properties, a hotel, nurs- an organisation of vol- pleted is poppy net, VJ Day stands for Vic- to do amazing work in ery and roadside retail unteers who have knit- which Ferryhill Town tory over Japan; the day remembrance of those units. ted and crocheted over Council staff have kindly Japan surrendered to who paid the ultimate The £5.5 million junction 10,000 beautiful poppies agreed to hang on behalf the Allies in 1945, after sacrifice, those that improvement scheme for projects around Fer- of the group in com- almost six years of war. served and those that has been carried out by ryhill. memoration of the 75th A spokesperson for the continue to serve.” Durham County Council and jointly funded by the authority, the North East Local Enterprise Partner- DELIVERERS NEEDED FERRYHILL’S FRIDAY ship (LEP) and Highways England. 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Bishop Press, Ferryhill & Chilton Chapter and Spennymoor News 2 Friday 31st July 2020 For more news from Ferryhill, Chilton and South West Durham visit: www.swd.news Cllr Simon Henig and Dave Wafer, Durham County Council’s head of transport and contract services at the completed site. INTEGRA WILL BE INTEGRAL TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY FROM PAGE 1 create thousands of more and better jobs in County its second north east ful- Durham. filment centre at the site, “The site can accommo- bringing more than one date buildings up to circa thousand permanent new one million square feet, People have until 2nd August to provide feedback on selective licensing in County Durham. jobs to the area. helping to attract