News Snippets

• Sedgefield Community College graded OUTSTANDING by OFSTED

  Following an Ofsted inspection in March, Sedgefield Community College is delighted that the work of students and staff received the highest possible grading in all categories.

• Sedgefield in Bloom’s Open Gardens Day

  Join us on Sunday July 9th between 1 & 5 pm when eighteen keen gardeners have agreed to open their gardens in various parts of the village. Also open to visitors will be one very different garden at Wynyard Station, the Manor House Rose Garden and all the gardens created by the Bloomers in the grounds of Ceddesfeld Hall. Tickets, available on the day from a gazebo on the green, cost £4. Children go free.

• GP retires

  After 33 years as a GP in Sedgefield, Dr Peter Jones will retire on the 31st May. Originally from Manchester, Dr Jones moved to Sedgefield in 1984. He studied medicine at Newcastle University and worked in Australia during a gap year, and ever since his return he has been at the heart of the community.

• Election reflections by Kelly Aitkin

  Labour remains in control of Durham County Council after the recent local elections, with Sedgefield electing Labour’s John Robinson and the Conservative’s David Brown as its councillors. David Brown narrowly received more votes than his fellow Labour councillor and replaced Rachel Lumsdon, the Labour councillor for Sedgefield since 2013.

Community Life Snippets

• Citizen of the Year 2017 - Angela Bannister

  Angela Bannister likes to be active. “I’ve got to be on the move all the time and when you’re retired you’ve got the time to do anything you like,” she told me a week after being named as Sedgefield’s Citizen of the Year 2017. Fortunately, what Angela likes to do mostly involves working with people, organising events or simply helping to get things done. As she says, “We have a lovely village, and if everybody does a little bit of something, well that just helps make things go round.”

• Sedgefield Community Association

  It was great to see so many youngsters enjoying the Easter Egg Hunt. All of the children managed to find eggs and collect prizes. Special awards were also given to the winners (in different age categories) of the Easter bonnet competition and for the best decorated egg. Following a raffle draw, Emily Kime was selected as this year’s Flower Queen with her attendants, Emilia McGirr, Kiera Quinn and Eva Young.

• Sheep worrying

  One of the great reasons to live in Sedgefield is the close proximity to the countryside and being able to walk through the Showfield and over to Hardwick Park. Everyone wants everyone to enjoy local walks, and as local farmers, we appreciate that lots of people like their dog to enjoy the countryside with them. However whilst people love to see the rural countryside and grazing sheep, lambs running and jumping, there are real dangers to sheep and their lambs when crossing the Showfield with your dog when it’s not on a lead.

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