Latest from the Village and Surrounding areas

Updates(24.01.12)

Our apologies for the interupted updates the problem has now been fixed and you will see a difference hopefully over the week as changes occur we would like anyone to send there stories, celebrations,report incidents etc to bowburnnews@aol.com where we will expect daily updates very soon.So although you may have been dissapointed latley with the site hopefully this will be sorted and once again on behalf of the team we must apologise.

 Race Night (14.01.12)

Bowburn football will be holding a race night on the 27th of this month at the Oak Tree Pub 1st race 7.30pm and there will also be a female singer tickets are available from Gary Hutchinson vicky Dunn and Joanne Ridley at £1 this is guaranteed to be a sell out and with only 100 tickets on sale it will be first come first served you can also buy a horse £2 or sponsor a race at £5 .

                                               Happy New Year(01.01.12)

On behalf of the team here at www.bowburn.net we would like to wish everyone all the best for the new year.

Annual Feast of Title(15.11.11)

Christ the King Church are having their annual Feast of Title on Sunday 20th November at 3.30pm therefore there will be no service at 11am this Sunday. All are welcome to attend this service which is followed by a supper and a few fireworks. We are honoured to welcome the Bishop of Whitby to this fabulous occasion and we hope to see you there as well.

New Slimming World Coming Soon(10.11.11)

New swimming world for the Bowburn and Shincliffe communities starting Tuesday 10th January at Shincliffe W.I. Village Hall and will be held weekly at 7pm.

AAP MEETING NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT(03.11.11)

There's an AAP meeting (Area Action Partnership) in Coxhoe Village Hall, 17:00 on the 15th November. Bowburn's part of the East Durham Rural Corridor: they have grant money to allocate, and if you want to see the money allocated to Bowburn (and not, say, Sedgefield), get yourself across to the meeting & have your say!Any views on this:click on our forum pages.

Free School asks for support from Village(03.11.11)

http://www.durhamfreeschool.org/
They're looking for people who'll put their names down to support it!

Leisure centre asks for support(03.11.11)

Click on the links to find out more on the future of the leisure centre its our closest centre and needs our support.

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http://www.futureleisureincoxhoe.org.uk/

AKA http://www.facebook.com/flic.org

Again, they'd love your support and input.

School Wins Award story from our friends at the nothern echo(06.10.11)

A VILLAGE school has won an international award for the second time.

Bowburn Infant and Nursery School, in Bowburn, County Durham, has been given the British Council’s International School Award in recognition of its work to bring the world into the classroom.

The school has links to Belgium, Germany and Latvia through the Comenius Project and Nepal through the Global Schools Partnership.

Internationally-themed days are held in school throughout the year.

Trish Fay, from the school, said: "I am very proud of our achievement. Our children have learned so much about other cultures and countries while having fun at the same time.

"Hearing our five to seven-year-old pupils sing in Norwegian and Dutch is amazing."

John Rolfe, from the British Council, congratulated all 800 UK schools to receive the accreditation this year.

Beamish brings fun to heritage day(06.09.11)

Beamish brings fun to heritage day Beamish Museum will put on activities for children at this Saturday’s banner exhibition at Bowburn Community Centre. Gillian Robinson, Assistant Keeper of Social History at the museum’s Regional Resource Centre, assisted by a volunteer, will run “design your own banner” and “dress up as a miner” attractions, as well as taking a mining object handling box, with mining objects that people can handle. “These have proved very popular in the past”, said Gillian, who is also bringing two banners from the museum’s collection. “I’m very much looking forward to taking part in this important heritage event”, she said. The museum’s banners have not been seen in public for many years and will join over 50 others in the exhibition. “Many of these have been here before”, said Mike Syer, secretary of Bowburn Banner Group, which is organising this annual Heritage Open Days event for the fifth time. “However some have not come recently and at least six banners are appearing for the first time. We expect well over 300 visitors again. Many of them will bring cameras to add to their own collections of banner images. Bowburn’s recently refurbished community centre, with its two large halls, is a perfect place to hang so many banners together, with space around them to take pictures. They can also see some of the superb photographs taken by members of Durham Photographic Society, which will also be on show. “We’re delighted that Beamish is going to add children’s activities to these attractions, for the first time. This will surely help more young people to appreciate the heritage of mining communities. “We’re also grateful to the East Durham Corridor Area Action Partnership, whose funding has made this exhibition possible, and to the Durham Miners Association, whose help with transport and by lending several of the banners, has been crucial”, added Mike. The exhibition will be open to the public from 10am till 4pm on Saturday, September 10. However visitors are advised to arrive before 3pm, as some banners may be taken away before the official finish. Admission is free. There will be various stalls, with books and memorabilia on display and for sale, and refreshments will be served from the community centre’s new kitchen. Bowburn Community Centre, which has two car parks, is about 50m north of the traffic lights on Durham Road (A177), Bowburn, and about 500m south of the A1(M), Junction 61. There are regular bus services to and from Durham, and the building is fully accessible.

Bench Stolen (24.7.11)

A bench was stolen from Marlene avenue between 7pm and 7am from a bungalow of a lady of 88yrs old the lady doesnt get out much but when she does she just likes to sit and watch passers by only for enjoyment to be ruined by thoughtless people .

Official re-opening of football field(21.7.11)

Just to let the village know that on the night of Thursday the 21st between 10.30pm and 7.00am my vehicle and another parked outside my property were “tampered with” by metal thieves…! They obviously were looking for copper pipe located in the pipe carrier located on the vehicle roofs.. Locks were cut off and the carriers damaged in their efforts to potentially nick a few quid’s worth of copper..! There is probably more vehicles in the village that had the tube carriers “looked in” but the owners will be unaware..! the incident have been reported to police and an appeal for any one with CCTV overlooking the Philip avenue and Robert terrace area would be appreciated…

Official re-opening of football field(06.7.11)

Ohio band returns to Bowburn to launch football tournament Two new football pitches in Bowburn Park will be officially re-opened on Sunday, July 11. Cllr Dennis Morgan, Chairman of Durham County Council, will formally open the ground, at Bowburn, near Durham, at 9am. After that the “pep band” of The Ohio State University Marching Band Alumni will perform from 9.15 till 9.45am. A youth football tournament will then follow. Bowburn Youth Football Club will compete against Coxhoe Youth FC, in six age groups, for the new Trophy donated by Councillors Williams and Blakey. (The age groups will be under-8s Development, under-8s, under-9s, under-10s, under-11s and under-13s.) 

A guest team will then play the adult Bowburn FC team, which plays in Division 3 of the Durham & District Sunday Morning League. Hot dogs and other refreshments will be available throughout the morning. The tournament is expected to finish between 12.30 and 1pm.

The new football pitches were laid last summer, thanks to funding from the Bowburn Regeneration Fund. This fund, created from the sale of land for housing by the former Durham City Council, has already helped other improvements in the village, including a children’s play area in the same park. 

The Ohio State University Marching Band Alumni (also known as The Best Damn Band in the Land, or TBDBITL for short) is playing a concert at Bowburn Community Centre this Friday evening (starting at 7.30pm) and will be marching with Bowburn’s banners through the village, and then into Durham for the Miners’ Gala, on Saturday.

For more information about the football tournament and Bowburn Park, please contact Martin Ridley, manager of Bowburn FC and a leading member of Bowburn PARC (Play Area Regeneration Committee) e-mail: martinrid@tiscali.co.uk tel.: 0794-912-3886 or Secretary Gary Hutchinson if you ae intrested in joining Bowburn F.C. (adults) e-mail:bowburnfc@talktalk.net 

For more information about the Ohio State University Marching Band Alumni and Bowburn’s banners, please contact Mike Syer, Secretary of Bowburn Banner Group e-mail: mike@mandjsyer.demon.co.uk tel.: 0191-377-1491 / 0775-344-1033

www.bowburn.net to get revamped ?(20.6.11)

Due to problems regular visitors will know about it has given us the chance to look at the way it is currently set up do you like it ?do you want a change ? unfortunately we have lost the old forum and a new one is been set up but what do you want to see there? we already have had football and general news as suggestions also do we need to keep old stories do we just want new ones ?do we want smaller blocks of headlines and just keep updating them ?we will still have the main links across the top remember its the village website and we want to hear from you so let us have your thoughts truthfully good or bad we wont me offended and everything will be took into consideration let us know any broken links etc and dont forget to register again in our forum .email us at bowburnnews@aol.com a.s.a.p.

PC problem hits Bowburn.net (08.6.11)

Most of you will have noticed that no updates have been done lately this was due to a problem which has hopefully been sorted with the administrators computer please keep checking for new updates and send all your latest stories to bowburnnews@aol.com sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.

Cooperage Re-opens (18.3.11)

The Cooperage has recently re-opened with new Tenants.

Linda Roberts would like to welcome you back to the Cooperage and looks forward to making it a 'Local' once again

Happy Birthday 15/3/11

Happy 23rd Birthday to Steven Guarnaccio 23 today fromall his family.

Parish Plan 15/3/11

Parish Plan. – An Action Plan for the Parish will be written up shortly, based on last year’s questionnaire survey. Residents are invited to drop in at Bowburn Community Centre on Tuesday (March 22), between 6pm and 8pm, to help choose the top 10 ideas coming out of that survey.

Community Centre AGM 15/3/11

Annual meeting. – The AGM of Bowburn Community Association will be held on Wednesday (March 23), starting at 6.30pm. Affiliated organisations are reminded that they should send a representative to this meeting, to be eligible for reduced rates when hiring rooms for their activities.

Bowburns own Billy Snooks Takes Family on Bike Ride article from evening Chronicle 14/3/11

Lazy days in the sun are the order of the day for most family holidays, but that’s far too dull for the Snooks. Coreena Ford takes a look at what this family is doing to raise money for the region’s children’s heart unit. ADVENTUROUS family the Snooks would rather tackle stages of the Tour de France cycle race when they get together. Dressed in matching outfits – like the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music – the sporty team took on Mont Ventoux in the French Alps last year, a 14-mile ride up a gradient of 9% that took each rider three hours. And in five weeks the group – who range in age from 27 to 62 – will head to France to ride up the Alpe D’Huez, a mountain with 21 terrifying hairpin bends. The group, from Coxhoe, County Durham, hope to raise hundreds of pounds for the Children’s Heart Unit Fund (CHUF) at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. Their efforts have come at a telling time for the unit too, which is being reviewed as part of Government plans to reduce heart surgery centres from 11 to six or seven. Andrew Snook, 33, works as a consultant for computer company TSG, which has made CHUF its chosen charity after the heart unit saved the life of its founder Graham Wylie’s daughter Kiera, now 14 months old. Andrew, who has a four-year-old daughter with his wife Stacey, 30, said: “Hospitals like the Freeman perform miracles day in, day out and it’s important that their work is recognised. Hopefully our fundraising will raise more donations as well as awareness of the unit’s work. “Our cycling holidays started a couple of years ago when my cousin Billy, who’s 28, decided to do the Coast-to-Coast cycle ride. “My dad Colin, who’s 62, wanted to do it too ... and in the end, six of us took part and had a great time, even though the weather was awful.” The group – Andrew, his dad Colin, cousin Billy, Billy’s wife Nina, 27, brother-in-law Allan Main, 40 and uncle William, 58 – loved it so much they planned the Mont Ventoux trip, which took place last summer, with all the family wearing matching shirts and caps. And on March 30 they will journey back to France. Andrew said: “We’re all hooked on road cycling now. Last September we travelled in my uncle’s motorhome to Mont Ventoux in Provence to cycle up the Tour de France mountain pass in memory of Tom Simpson. “Tom was a professional cyclist from Haswell, a pit village only a few miles from where we live, and he died cycling up Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France in 1967. He was also the only Briton to win the annual World Cycling Championship. “Needless to see we had many people tooting horns in support, shouting “Allez, Allez!” as we cycled up. “My dad and I went up once. . . but the other four free-wheeled back to the bottom and went up the mountain three times! They were in the saddle for a painful 13 hours to achieve that! We started looking at the other famous mountain stages of the Tour de France and settled on the Alpe D’Huez. “The idea is that we cycle to the top on April Fool’s Day, April 1, have lunch at the ski resort at the top, then rally back down and go up at a more leisurely pace. To sponsor the family, visit www.justgiving.com/andrewsnook

New Secondary School for Bowburn (and other places)?

Do you think Bowburn kids need a better option? Exciting plans are beginning to take shape. Come along to the Community Centre at 8pm on Wednesday 16th March to find out more.

Zumba Comes to Bowburn (01-02-11)

Zumba - Take the 30-minute total body workout provided by the circuit and mix in the high-energy, Latin-inspired dance-fitness moves of the Zumba® programme and you’ve got the Circuit with Zumba®. A unique workout that’s only available at the communnity mondays 6.45pm till 7.15pm tuesdays 10.00am till 10.30am wednesdays 10.00am till 10.30am thursdays 6.00pm till 6.30pm booking is essential The Gymz Durham DL14 7EH Mon 14 Feb to Thu 17 Feb, Mon 21 Feb to Thu 24 Feb, Mon 28 Feb to Thu 3 Mar. Website: www.thegymz.co.uk

Dentist Open (15/01/11)

 Bowburn now has its own dentists thanks to the Burgess & Hyder Dental Group ,the new modern practice is located within the Wellsprings Buisness Centre next to the Pharmacy on the main road .The dentist is open early mornings and late evenings aswell as normal day hours and also  on Saturdays and is in a friendly professional relaxed enviroment .
The dentist offers all nhs Dentistry and is now accepting NHS patients for more information please contact 01913773465 or to book a appointment, or why not visit there website www.burgesshyder.com
www.bowburn.net would like to wish them good luck for the future here at Bowburn.

Village attacked from Space ?(12/01/11)

Well it got you attention not attacks from space but pot holes in the village ,there has been a number of complaints about the potholes around the village especially the ones between Henry Avenue and Halgarth Estate ,where one driver took his car to the garage and it cost £350 to be fixed according to local people . We understand this is a national problem but the size of some of these holes latley is not on and the way the petrol prices are going up people will be forced of the road ,we do pay car tax but what for ?