Once again the Christmas and New Year Holidays are upon us. No doubt like everyone else you’ll be dashing to and fro in wintery conditions trying to get those last minute items to send to Father Christmas. If so all of us here at www.euvue.co.uk and www.euvuechester-le-street.co.uk would like to wish all our readers a…
Traffic came to a standstill in the centre of Chester-le-Street when this police van collided with a car and overturned. The officer at the wheel escaped unhurt after the accident at the market place and no-one else was hurt in the incident. A spokesman for Durham police authority said the driver had been responding to…
A £1.5m road improvement scheme which it’s hoped will boost business and improve road safety for a Chester-le-Street industrial park has been opened. The programme of works on the A693 at the junction of the Drum Industrial Estate will allow safer and freer access for vehicles on a vital transport artery, improving economic expansion prospects…
A Chester-le-Street woman has raised over £8,000 for the Sunderland Royal Hospital less than two months after she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Jillian Coleman, a 39-year-old mother of two from Cornmoor in Chester-le-Street was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) in August and has since undertaken a series of tests and scans….
Plans to improve the sewerage network in Chester le Street have been unveiled to residents. Northumbrian Water is investing a further £600,000 to reduce the risk of flooding to 13 homes in the Holmlands Park and Queen’s Park area of the town. Work is due to begin next week (October 18) and take three months…
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 72-year-old man who has gone missing from his home in Chester-le-Street. Kenneth James Froggett has not been seen since leaving his home in Second Avenue at 10.30am yesterday, September 29. Mr Froggett is described as of stocky build, tanned, balding with light brown hair greying…
Many people around the globe will be saddened by the news that North East artist and illustrator Sheila Mackie has died. Born in Chester-le-Street , Sheila was originally art mistress at Consett Grammar School which later became Blackfyne Comprehensive and it was from here that she would abscond to spend months painting the animals at…
Police say they are ‘disappointed’ by the results of a speeding campaign which saw hundreds of drivers fined. Officers from Durham Constabulary’s road policing units mounted the operation during August as part of a Europe-wide speed initiative. During the seven days of the campaign a total of 595 motorists were caught going sufficently over the…
Shaun Howe and another man both leapt into action when they saw the woman, 38, in the Wear at the Riverside Park at Chester-le-Street. The drama happened just after 2pm on Saturday, with reports that the woman was sitting in the park drinking from a bottle of cider and appeared to be distressed. A witness…
Generous Go North East staff have donated more than £2,500 of reward money to local charities – including the Great North Air Ambulance Service which attended the recent tragic bus accident in Newfield near Chester-le-Street. Each of the bus operator’s nine depots received the cash rewards from the company after staff worked long and hard…
