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Sentence Examples She made her own break while studying at Durham, with stints on local radio in nearby Newcastle. Late in the same century the site became a dependent cell of the Durham Benedictines. This chair is linked to a canonry in the ancient cathedral of Durham, and it was held earlier in the twentieth century by Michael Ramsey. The air reeked with the smell of paint, turpentine, Bull Durham tobacco, and the aromatic Indian herb kinnikinnick. Yorkshire began brightly against Durham at Scarborough yesterday but went downhill as the weather deteriorated. Flora Richards, an independent escort working out of Durham, ran an escort agency for two years, for which she could have been arrested. Let's say the White Sox have Chris Singleton on third with one out when Ray Durham attempts a safety squeeze bunt. They both converted theirs and the goalkeeper stood firm at the last to seal the place in the finals on March 20 in Durham. He studied Geography at Durham University from 1981 to 1983, then served with the Green Howards and the 10th Gurkhas. The high-flying Tykes had run up a record seven successive victories in the tournament before Durham knocked them off their perch last year. Youngsters had a great time sledging down a slope at Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham on a bonus day off school. Initially he arrived at Newcastle on a gap year before proceeding to Durham University to read sports science. She plans to spend her retirement visiting her son and grandson in Durham and sightseeing around the countryside. A man was also arrested for failing to answer a court summons at Durham Magistrates Court at the same address. Dene is a word from Northumbrian English used in Northumberland and Durham to refer to a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn runs. We hope to return to Durham before too long, and when we do we'll definitely try out this treat. Weardale was at this time a forested area that belonged to the Bishops of Durham, who used it as a hunting preserve. An RAF helicopter and a police spotter aircraft were scrambled, and 90 rescuers scoured the moor near Keld, County Durham. The additions of Edgardo Alfonzo, Ray Durham, Jose Cruz Jr. and Marquis Grissom likely will amount to a wash. This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble. Show More Sentences The 21-year-old Bradford Park Avenue striker was spotted by a college scout while he was a student at East Durham Football Academy. I moved down to Durham, North Carolina and was there for close to 5 months. A similar position is found in the Principality and County Palatine of Durham. Maryland was by its charter erected into a palatinate after the model of the palatinate of Durham in England. He supervises a staff of research analysts and portfolio managers for the Durham, North Carolina, firm. On Sunday last, a cow of the Durham breed calved, along with a remarkably fine bull calf, which is still alive, a very curious lusus naturae. Some of the market towns and ports had a local prosperity but none, with the exception of Durham, was given representation in Parliament. Yet his decade of pastoral ministry at Durham also left a communal and homiletic legacy that has not received the recognition it deserves. After marrying in 1955, they set up home in a village near Durham for 13 years before moving to York. The franchises of the bishop of Durham and the earl of Chester stood outside the shire system of England and had a special independence. It was probably done when the RCM parts were transposed down a fifth from the pitch still reproduced in the Durham organ part. He was her first and only boyfriend, just into his second year at Durham, where he was studying general arts. The fact the Durham University site already had its own changing rooms helped to keep the cost of the upgrade down. The form of the Anglos comes as a timely boost for the Scottish Saltires, who play their National League debut against Durham Dynamos today. White also acknowledged that Durham would give them a tough fight but he was philosophical about last Sunday's defeat. The drugs were stashed inside a package of health food addressed to a prisoner in Frankland Prison, County Durham. She has lived in Durham, North Carolina for six years since immigrating from Mexico City and last December gave birth to her third child, Carlos. From 1939 he occupied the chair of mathematics at Durham, a position he was to hold for 20 years. He took a degree in microbiology and then a PhD in aquatic biology at Durham University before joining the water authority as a scientist. Yes, the minor-league baseball player memorably portrayed by Kevin Costner in bull Durham. Show More Sentences Meanwhile in Stanhope, County Durham, emergency services performed the daring James Bond-style rescue of another driver after his car got stuck at a flooded ford. But Durham, who had already been playing in South Africa for a week, got off to a flier as the pitch eased and a half-century from Michael Gough put them in charge. One of the wreaths was laid by 90-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Martin McClane, a company sergeant major, who served with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Lancashire have been frustrated by the rain in their current match with Middlesex at Old Trafford, especially as Sussex thrashed Durham inside three days at Hove. Finally, the British Library and Faksimile Verlag are donating copies of the facsimile to Durham Cathedral and to the community Heritage Centre on Holy Island. I'll be having a chat with the guest host of the show, Crane Durham. Appleby, the county town, suffered greatly from Scottish raids, since it was athwart an easy line of advance across Stainmore towards Durham and York. This provided a defensive stronghold for the Prince Bishops of Durham, who for centuries ruled the area with their own armies, courts and coinage. Richard Fox was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. On December 9, 2001, Peterson called Durham emergency services to report that his wife had fallen down a flight of stairs. Born in South Shields and educated at South Shields High School and Durham University, he has held many academic posts in England and abroad, notably in Japan and Malaya. Wood was born in northern England in 1965 the son of a professor of zoology at Durham University who is also a priest. But more than 70 people were arrested Monday at the capital, including Jeanette Ford, who had come from Durham to join the effort. Another encounter with apparent racism came when she finished at the very top of her class at Durham high school. David Craig, based in Durham, works with organic wood and reclaimed teak. The dispensers of justice down in Clifford Street can now talk directly via a TV link to prisons all over the country from Exeter to Durham and from Strangeways to Wandsworth. But its management of burial sites was called into question when 900 animals were buried at the wrong location at Tow Law, Country Durham, and had to be reburied. Police are trying to trace the wife of a professional clown after she did a disappearing act and ran away from a travelling circus in County Durham. Later she went on a walkabout from Durham Market Place to Millennium Place where people, cheering and waving Union Jacks, packed the pavements to see her. Joseph Wilson Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Pallion in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham. Show More Sentences This does not apply to the sees of Canterbury, York, London, Durham and Winchester. When she died on 15 February 2001, Jones, in turn, left one million pounds to St Paul's Cathedral, Hexham Abbey, and Durham Cathedral. At the age of 24 Sargent became England's youngest Doctor of Music, with a degree from Durham. John Lilburne was the son of Richard Lilburne, a landowner of estates at Thickley Punchardon and elsewhere in County Durham. The university also owns and manages the Durham World Heritage Site in partnership with Durham Cathedral. In 1834 all but two of the bishops of the Church of England confirmed that they would accept holders of Durham degrees for ordination. Another modern facsimile copy of the Gospels is now housed in the Durham Cathedral Treasury, where it can be seen by visitors. Durham Constabulary operate in the area of the two unitary districts of County Durham and Darlington. In 1856 he became Bishop of Durham, and in 1860 he became Archbishop of York. This is located within eastern parts of Cumbria, southern parts of Northumberland, and western parts of Yorkshire and County Durham. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and the Tees Valley. It was the largest pit in Sunderland and one of the most important in County Durham. The mine opened in 1835 and was the last to remain operating in the Durham Coalfield. The Durham Coalfield remains a national resource for the UK economy today and for the future. The commodity chemical companies are mostly based in Teesside whereas the pharmaceuticals are based in Northumberland and County Durham. Esh Group is a large construction company based south of Durham in Bowburn. A 1740 Act banned smaller meetings but some meetings like Durham survived into the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The first golf course appeared in County Durham in 1874 at Seaton Carew Golf Club near Hartlepool. The region was created in 1994 and was originally defined as Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Cleveland. The Durham Coast Line connects Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough with the main line. Show More Sentences Newcastle has the most total income, followed by Durham, while Sunderland has the least. From York to Durham, crops, domestic animals, and farming tools were scorched. The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral names two priests with this name, one of whom is presumably Bede himself. Only one exemplification of the 1216 charter survives, held in Durham Cathedral. The Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester are ranked in the next three positions. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York automatically have seats, as do the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester. It is accredited by Durham University as part of the Church of England's Common Awards. In 1592, Raleigh was given many rewards by the Queen, including Durham House in the Strand and the estate of Sherborne, Dorset. She gave birth to a son, believed to be named Damerei, who was given to a wet nurse at Durham House, but he died in October 1592 of plague. Lord Durham was widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of the British Empire's constitutional evolution. Coal from the inland mines in southern County Durham was taken away on packhorses, and then horse and carts as the roads were improved. The stone bridge over the River Skerne was designed by the Durham architect Ignatius Bonomi. By 1857 a blast furnace had opened close to the Durham coalfield on the north side of the Tees. On 14 July 2012, Miliband became the first Leader of the Labour Party to attend and address the Durham Miners' Gala in 23 years. Since then the High Sheriffs of Durham have been appointed similar to other high sheriffs in England and Wales. Cornwall, Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire became unitary authorities providing all services. During the Anarchy, Scotland invaded Northern England and took much of the land north of Durham. In February 1999 Robinson Bus Service was purchased followed in August 1999 by Durham Transportation. Also situated in County Durham, the story behind why many Irish moved to Jarrow is similar to that of Gateshead. Sunderland was another place in County Durham that many Irish escaping the famine saw as desirable. Show More Sentences The treasures of Durham Cathedral include relics of St Cuthbert, the head of St Oswald of Northumbria and the remains of the Venerable Bede. King Canute was one early pilgrim, granting many privileges and much land to the Durham community. The body of the saint was exhumed, and according to the Rites of Durham, was discovered to be uncorrupted. Further to this and with the agreement of Durham University, Historic Scotland funded a geophysical survey of Palace Green. In the 17th century Durham had an organ by Smith that was replaced in 1876 by Willis, with some pipes being reused in Durham Castle chapel. Negotiations were handled by the recently restored Bishop William of Durham and Robert, count of Meulan. The bishops sided with the king, the Bishop of Durham presenting his case and even advising William to depose and exile Anselm. Walter, bishop of Albano, was chosen and negotiated in secret with William's representative, the Bishop of Durham. After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Then the saint intimated, as it was believed, that he wished to remain in Durham. The flag of County Durham since 2013 features the Cross of St Cuthbert, counterchanged on the county colours of blue and gold. St Aidan's College of the University of Durham was named after Aidan of Lindisfarne. Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been wholly occupied since 1840 by University College, Durham. In 1837, the castle was donated to the newly formed University of Durham by Bishop Edward Maltby as accommodation for students. Durham Castle is jointly designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral, a short distance across Palace Green. This evolution can be seen most particularly at the Norman Durham Cathedral, which has the earliest pointed ribbed high vault known. These cathedrals are Canterbury, Carlisle, Durham, Ely, Norwich, Rochester, Winchester and Worcester. Columns, where used, are massive, as in the nave at Gloucester, and are alternated with piers at Durham. The remains of the Norman crypt indicate that the older building must have been as massive and ornamental in its architecture as Durham. Supporters include the Bishop of Durham, Viz creator Simon Donald, and the Northumbrian Association. Show More Sentences From July to September 2013 the Lindisfarne Gospels were displayed for three months in Palace Green Library, Durham. Lewis stayed in Durham, where he says he was overwhelmed by the magnificence of the cathedral. The same month, Chaplin was invested with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the universities of Oxford and Durham. David gladly accepted and personally led a Scots army southwards with intention of capturing Durham. The Durham, North Carolina facility conducts final assembly for the GE90 and CF34 power plants. However, the official name of the institution remains the University of Durham and the official coat of arms is unchanged. This was the first new college to open in Durham itself since the 1970s, at the creation of Collingwood. Readers are also entitled to use the theology library housed by Durham Cathedral in its cloister. Despite this, Durham still ranks fifth for the proportion of students educated at private schools. Now called the Foundation Centre, it delivers courses at both Durham City and Queens campus, Stockton on Tees. Similarly, Durham fell from 19th to 20th in the Times Higher Education ranking by total research power. Many Durham University courses are also individually ranked among the best in the country, as noted below. In 2015, Durham University were voted number 1 in the UK for best university WiFi, on a review platform StudentCrowd. Team Durham Community Outreach is a sports community programme aimed at giving support and opportunities through the use of sport. The instruments are currently housed in the Grade II listed Durham University Observatory. Recently a set tuned to peloghas been added meaning that Durham now has a complete Gamelan orchestra. By February David was at Durham, but an army led by King Stephen met him there. However, the first Durham treaty quickly broke down after David took insult at the treatment of his son Henry at Stephen's court. On 9 April David and Stephen's wife Matilda of Boulogne met each other at Durham and agreed a settlement. David's greatest disappointment during this time was his inability to ensure control of the bishopric of Durham and the archbishopric of York. Show More Sentences The Bruces also held substantial estates in Aberdeenshire, County Antrim, County Durham, Essex, Middlesex and Yorkshire. Their descendants Neville and Charles Eade owned it from 1931 to 1950, and then it was sold in 1950 to Durham County Council. The ceremonial county of Durham is administered by four unitary authorities. The charity operates 3 helicopters including one at Durham Tees Valley Airport covering the County Durham area. The crown regarded Durham as falling within Northumberland until the late thirteenth century. The arguments appear to have prevailed, as by the fourteenth century Durham was accepted as a liberty which received royal mandates direct. The diocese was divided into the archdeaconries of Durham and Northumberland. In 1614 a bill was introduced in parliament for securing representation to the county and city of Durham and the borough of Barnard Castle. Most of the county came under control of the newly formed Durham County Council in an area known as an administrative county. For information about public transportation and bus schedules, go to the Public Transport pages of the Durham County Council website. The University of Durham is based in Durham city and is sometimes held to be the third oldest university in England. In 1745, John Egerton, later Bishop of Durham, started taking friends on boat trips down the valley from the rectory at Ross. They then settled in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England in 1818 where Murchison made the acquaintance of Sir Humphry Davy. In 1861 the islands were sold to Charles Thorp, who was at the time Archdeacon of Durham. The pele tower was built around 1500, by or for Thomas Castell, Prior of Durham. Hexham covered County Durham and the southern part of Northumberland up to the River Coquet and eastwards into the Pennines. During this period religious art continued to flourish on Lindisfarne, and the Liber Vitae of Durham began in the priory. The Durham Report subsequently recommended responsible government and the assimilation of French Canadians into English culture. Henry's chancellors, and those of his queens, became bishops of Durham, Hereford, London, Lincoln, Winchester and Salisbury. In the final the club played Durham where they lost by 125 runs as the match went into a reserve day due to rain. Show More Sentences The club ended up finishing in third place, twelve points behind winners Durham. Upper and Lower Canada were merged into one colony, the Province of Canada, in 1841, based on the recommendations of the Durham Report. The term is associated with Tyneside, south Northumberland and northern parts of County Durham. The actress portraying her, Felicity Finch was raised in Egglescliffe, a town in the southern part of County Durham. On taking orders he was appointed secretary to John Overall, Bishop of Lichfield, and then domestic chaplain to Richard Neile, Bishop of Durham. Cosin was responsible for a style of church woodwork unique to County Durham, a sumptuous fusion of gothic and contemporary Jacobean forms. The font cover in Durham Cathedral is a splendid example of this, as are the displays in the churches at Sedgefield and elsewhere. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death. The service was at Durham Cathedral, conducted by Alington together with William Temple, Archbishop of York and Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham. Of these, Durham was practically independent, for the palatine bishops of that see were little short of sovereigns in their own jurisdiction. The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York. In the past, Bishops of Durham varied their signatures between Dunelm and the French Duresm. The bishop lived in Durham Castle from its construction in the 11th century. It does not apply to the five sees of Canterbury, York, London, Durham or Winchester, which are always represented in the House of Lords. Blair's father accepted a job as a lecturer at Durham University, and thus moved the family to Durham, England. Aged five, this marked the beginning of a long association Blair was to have with Durham. By 1870, there were 14,000 beehive ovens in operation on the West Durham coalfields, capable of producing 4,000,000 tons of coke. Although he had never married, he had a daughter, Sarah Clement, by one Agnes Esson from County Durham. Northumberland and Durham were the leading coal producers and they were the sites of the first deep pits. The oldest were in Newcastle and Durham, South Wales, the Central Belt of Scotland and the Midlands, such as those at Coalbrookdale. Show More Sentences The historic county boundaries are with Cumberland to the north, County Durham and Yorkshire to the east, and Lancashire to the south and west. In 1869, George William Kitchin, later Dean of Durham Cathedral, took up residence at Brantwood. The Whin Sill or Great Whin Sill is a tabular layer of the igneous rock dolerite in County Durham and Northumberland in the northeast of England. It underlies much of south and east Northumberland and the Durham Coalfield. It is bounded on the east by the North Sea, and has borders with Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south. Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland. Before the reorganisation of the historic English counties, the river formed the boundary between County Durham and Yorkshire. At about 14,000 years ago, retreat of the ice paused for maybe 500 years at the city of Durham. This can be established by the types of glacial deposits in the vicinity of Durham City. Its upper end runs through lead mining country, until this gives way to coal seams of the Durham coalfield for the rest of its length. Frosterley Marble was used extensively in church architecture, there are local examples in St Michael's church Frosterley and Durham Cathedral. This is shown on Ordnance Survey maps, and on the County Durham GIS online. The River Wear at Durham was featured on a television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of Northern England. The ranking is the highest Durham has been awarded in the guide's history and follows recent success in other league tables. Two weirs impede the flow of the river at Durham, both originally created for industrial activities. Teesdale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England. Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. Ooh Aah Camara finished seventh on her debut for Guest in the Albany Stakes, and the County Durham handler has been pleased with her progress. He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby. Team captain Alistair Baker from Stanley, County Durham, was 38th and Phil Wagger from Blaydon 65th. Show More Sentences The victor was young Scott Jose from Durham with an excellent net of 36lb 7oz of waggler caught with dace from the Corbridge section. In a separate case heard by the court, a County Durham pensioner was fined for kerb crawling on Teesside. Dr Pippa Whitehouse, from Durham University's department of geography, studied how land masses react to the changing weight of ice sheets. Professor Stephen Bann CBE will be at Durham City's DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery next month. Thousands of Durham soldiers who fought with distinction at a little known battlefront that claimed 300 lives are to be remembered. A PROJECT to tackle loan sharks is giving residents in County Durham the chance to win PS100 worth of shopping vouchers. Lovebirds Stefan and Beth Davies, a Durham University researcher, feared for their lives after becoming stuck up Ben Nevis. Professor Patrick Hussey, director of The Durham Centre for Bioimaging Technology, welcomed the award. Council workers Peter Fanning and Joanne Machers persuaded colleagues from across the region to take part in a dragon boat race in Durham. He will give his lecture called Making Time Team in County Durham at County Hall, Durham, on Friday, March 13 at 7pm. Age Concern in Durham will be joining up with Durham Constabulary to present a Beat The Bogeyman talk about how to handle bogus callers. Douglas McIntosh, 41, forged customers' signatures and sold their goods to a market trader, Durham Crown Court heard. About 50 jobs are to go at Dyson Refractories brickworks near Bishop Auckland in County Durham. Volunteers, young carers and budding community leaders were also recognised at the Shrievalty Awards at Durham Castle. Their flexwing microlight aircraft was involved in an incident at Durham Tees Valley Airport on Friday. Skydive Academy Ltd runs parachuting and skydiving experiences from Shotton Airfield in County Durham. Proposals for a new 42-home development in Willowtree Avenue, Gilesgate, will go before Durham County Council's central planning committee. And while her own English is faultless, her knowledge does not extend to such East Durham words as neif, oxter or thropple. The Spey brand is formally registered as being from County Durham with the Scotch Whisky Association, although it is made on Speyside. Reinnervate, a spinout company from Durham University, was established in 2002 to commercialise research in cell biology. Show More Sentences In County Durham, a museum became the calm setting for visitors to learn the ancient Chinese arts of Chi Kung and Tai Chi. Railway artist Steven, 42, lives in Esh Winning in County Durham and captures the beauty and drama of steam locomotives. Well done to Dominic Degnan from County Durham who correctly worked out that 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21 are triangular numbers in last fortnight's quiz. Currently awaiting brain surgery, Julia, of Lombard Drive, Chesterle-Street, County Durham, has suffered cluster headaches for the last 16 years. My Giant Colouring Book by controversial artists Jake and Dinos Chapman opens at the Durham Art Gallery. Being equidistant from Newcastle, Hexham and Durham makes it very commutable. The Sustainable Schools Fayre is being held at Durham University's Science Learning Centre North East in Pity Me, County Durham. Figures for Durham and Northumberland were lost with the switch to the unitary councils. Most recently Lee Bircham stepped in at short notice to outbox Port Glasgow puncher G Quigley on majority points at the South Durham show. Varley had cut the umbilical cord with scissors, dropped the placenta in a carrier bag and dumped it in a wheelie bin in Horden, Co Durham. Josh, of Darlington, Co Durham, spent two months in a germproof bubble and still needs physiotherapy for his legs. When the bride's parents booked the trip at Going Places in Durham they were given a leaflet which claimed Bolivians did NOT need a visa. School pupils were treated to a trip to Low Burnhall wood near Durham as part of a free Woodland Discovery Day. Ian Gourley, 15, died from head injuries when he was hit by a Ford Escort in Peterlee, Co Durham, nine days ago. If the Durham quickie is struggling to cope with a phoney war, how on earth is he going to cope when the real thing starts? Alexander Dobbing and Wayne Bruce were jailed for a combined total of more than 11 years at Durham Crown Court yesterday. Hallucinate or think they sense ghosts, according to research from the University of Durham. An extraordinary exhibition in County Durham invites us to walk into a dreamscape, a sumptuous landscape of the imagination. The study conducted by Northumbria Mammal Group and Durham Wildlife Trust has revealed encouraging signs of harvest mice. A COUNTY Durham teenager set to represent Great Britain in the World Duathlon Championships in Canada this summer is appealing for sponsors. Show More Sentences Another highlight was playing songs commissioned from New Writing North for Sylvia Plath anniversary and playing them at Durham Town Hall. A POPULAR 10k running event will come to Durham next March to raise money and awareness for Muscular Dystrophy. And the New Zealand-born star said he will also be showing members of the Durham Student Theatre a home movie. Ridley, from Wolsingham, County Durham, was a gold medalist at this year's UK School Games and is the current top GB junior epeeist. Since then a new ice hockey team, the Durham Dragons, was formed to play friendly fixtures, but not in Durham. But odds-compilers are wary of the County Durham track, which will be represented by Sedge The Fieldmouse, Ramside Ram and Freddie The Fox. The school has attended interschool events organised by the Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sport Partnership. Jules Fosset won the Durham University heat of the Blueprint competition with her plan for her company Amoralia. Donald was four months old at the time of departure, PO Durham had already returned to the Brisbane area of Australia to finish his RAAF service. Mr Bell has also claimed that Aircraftman Ronald Maddison, from Consett, County Durham, died in May 1953, at the age of 20, when a nerve agent was dripped on to his arm. Elsewhere in County Durham, a dead dog tested positive for Aldicarb, a pesticide commonly used to lace bait which is often implicated in poisoning incidents. A parliamentary bill proposed in 1907 would have fixed the seat of the university in Durham for only ten years, allowing the Senate to choose to move to Newcastle after this. Ali was originally arrested in 2003 following a major police operation codenamed Yacca which targeted the supply of class-A drugs in Grange Villa, County Durham. Until the mid 19th century, University of Durham degrees were subject to a religion test and could only be taken by members of the established church. Under the arrangements the two colleges became affiliated colleges of the university with their students sitting examinations for and receiving Durham degrees. The university's ownership of the World Heritage Site includes Durham Castle, Palace Green, and the surrounding buildings including the historic Cosin's Library. Dave Merrington, a retired miner from South Hetton, County Durham, fashioned an aspiring trophy in 1975 from a lump of coal hewn from the Haig Colliery in Cumbria. The campus is home to East Durham College's landbased training, offering courses in horticulture, floristry, arboriculture and forestry and environmental conservation. The clock is a memorial to the airmen operating from bases in Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland who were killed in action during the Second World War. Workington is linked by the A596 road to Maryport, to Whitehaven via A595 road, by the A66 road to Penrith and continues to Scotch Corner in County Durham. Show More Sentences They are found throughout the more mountainous areas of Great Britain, but particularly in the Yorkshire Dales, County Durham, and around the pennine fells of Cumbria. In 1897 Walpole senior was appointed principal of Bede College, Durham, and Hugh was moved again, to be a day boy for four years at Durham School. Though Walpole was no admirer of the schools he had attended there, the cathedral cities of Truro, Canterbury and Durham made a strong impression on him. But rather than actually battling up Cap Ventouse, they will be completing their own personal Tours at the Elvet Bridge office in aid of Durham Hospital Radio. The Lobster Charity Ball, which takes place at Hardwick Hall Hotel in County Durham, on May 2, will raise funds for Daisy Chain, which supports families affected by autism. The northernmost county of England, it borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and the Scottish Borders to the north. When he stood down in 1921 he became honorary reader in paleography at Durham University and honorary librarian to the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral. The highest point in historic County Durham is Burnhope Seat. Just north of Easington is one of the deep coastal denes cut into the magnesian limestone which add to the special character of the County Durham coast. In 1846, together with Charles Lyell, he produced a lengthy and detailed report on a serious explosion in the colliery at Haswell County Durham, which killed 95 miners. But builders restoring a cottage near to the famous landmark unearthed the hidden gem and handed it into bosses at Ding Dong Vintage at The Gates Shopping Centre, in Durham. They include The Quick, a Gothic thriller written by Durham author Lauren Owen and Suffragette by award-winning graphic novelists Bryan and Mary Talbot. On the edge of Bishop Auckland the Wear passes below Auckland Park and Auckland Castle, the official residence of the Bishop of Durham and its deer park. When it reaches the city of Durham the River Wear passes through a deep, wooded gorge, from which several springs emerge, historically used as sources of potable water. Work was transferred to a new purpose built facility in Peterlee, Durham. In June each year, the Durham Regatta, which predates that at Henley, attracts rowing crews from around the region for races along the river's course through the city. There are 14 boathouses and 20 boat clubs based on the Wear in Durham. The club's first Football League tenure began in 1928 when it was elected to the northern section of the Football League Third Division, replacing Durham City. Since then, however, interest has exploded, the most recent Hackathon involving more than 40 students from Durham University's Computer Science degree course. Stainmore Forest stretches further east into County Durham, towards Bowes. Show More Sentences The Scots went on to invade England, occupying Northumberland and Durham. The Durham team studied the impacts of climate on the Alpine Chamois, a species of mountain goat, and the effects that domestic sheep had on the goats' movements. Guy Wilks has dramatically transformed Karting North East, which sits just off the A690 near Houghtonle-Spring, Co Durham, since taking on the business almost three years ago. Deborah Wilkinson, of Whitehouse Stud in Waskerly, County Durham, is proudly showing off Woiwode, a graded Hanoverian imported from the state-stud in Celle in Germany. Inside, its walls provide a potted history of his 16-year professional career with Durham, England's newest firstclass county Killeen has served almost from day one. In later years, Lowry spent holidays at the Seaburn Hotel in Sunderland, County Durham, painting scenes of the beach and nearby ports and coal mines. At the age of 16 he earned his diploma as Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and at 18 he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music by the University of Durham. The first experimental work on UCG was planned to start in 1912 in Durham, the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Nobel Prize winner Sir William Ramsay. This section includes the rivers of County Durham and Northumberland. But one November day in 2010 he found what he first thought was a lager can ring-pull in the field of farmer Tony Wilson, near Wheatley Hill, County Durham. Prof Elliott, who teaches at Durham University, said poor readers wanted to be called dyslexic because of a perception that dyslexics were generally intellectually bright. The snowstorm, which was the cause of their misfortune, happened in the middle of January, corresponding to our July, and in the latitude of Durham! Nevertheless, the source material shows that it was sung in York Minster as well as Durham, Worcester and Cambridge, in the early seventeenth century. The Orwells spent some time in the North East, near Carlton, County Durham, dealing with matters in the adoption of a boy whom they named Richard Horatio Blair. It is little known that the nine Georgian Bishops of Durham displayed to varying degrees all the debauchery and rumbustiousness of their non-religious contemporaries. Meanwhile, there is a local derby at the Arnott Stadium with Durham City hosting Newcastle Blue Star in the Second Round of the UniBond League Challenge Cup. Several possible locations have been mooted, including Durham Cathedral, Lindisfarne itself or one of the museums in Newcastle upon Tyne or Sunderland. Carilef was made Bishop of Durham, and was also given the powers of Earl for the region south of the rivers Tyne and Derwent, which became the County Palatine of Durham. Chris Hopkinson, 45, who works as a peripatetic music teacher for Durham County Council, wants to finish the Race Across America in under 10 days. The Durham all-rounder has a fractured scaphoid in his right hand and has been ruled out of the World T20 after thumping the locker at the Kensington Oval. Find more words! 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