SANDSTONE tablet of King Charles’s official cipher, hand-crafted by a Durham Cathedral mason, has gone on display in a village hall – alongside an official letter of commendation from his mother, the Queen, awarded as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations
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THREE foodbanks, which have provided emergency grocery parcels to hundreds of crisis-hit families in the Durham area over the past year, have been gifted £1,000 by the charitable trust of the city’s freemen.
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A FAMILY, whose modern-day footprint on the freemen’s seven centuries of history is near impossible to match, established a generational “quadruple” first at this year’s November Guild Day.
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REMEMBRANCE Sunday in Durham will be marked again by a double tribute to “The Fallen” – both supported together for the first time by the Durham City Freemen Charitable Trust.
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ACENTURIES-old craft, which first emerged in England during the Middle Ages and went on to be nurtured for over two hundred years in the homes of Durham’s coal and lead mining families, is poised to receive a double boost from the city’s freemen.
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STROKE victims from across Durham will enjoy “an enhanced quality of life” thanks to the continuing support of the city’s freemen.
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YOUNG boxing gold medalists from Durham have earned themselves a special award from the city’s freemen – a £1,000 gift to help equip an extension to their purpose-built gym.
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A SMALL band of guardians, offering anyone in distress a safe night-time refuge within a central Durham church, have been handed a timely boost by the city’s freemen.
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A PRIMARY schoolteacher, whose great-great-grandfather crafted the coffin in which St Cuthbert’s remains were re-buried in Durham Cathedral in 1899, has followed her forebears into the ranks of the city’s freemen.
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More than 800 primary school children within Durham City are set to benefit from a national internet safety scheme aimed at making their switch from primary to secondary education less emotionally stressful
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