The Mayor of Durham Grenville Holland attended the official launch of the new Deric Youth Bus yesterday. I spoke with Chairman and local fellow councillor Terry Moderate and had a look round the new bus which I have to say is fantastic – hats off to everyone who has been working on this.

The funding Cllr Crooks and I provided for the service at Witton Gilbert was very well spent and we backed this up with further funding now that the Youth Club has been set up. Having spoken to Terry about future funding I am sure that both Rev and I will be looking to invest more of the councillors initiative fund money into this great facility.