The Bishop Press

21/09/2025

📷 PHOTO OF THE WEEK 📷

This week's Photo of the Week was taken by Addie Elloway and is titled 'Forever Spinning'.

Early August on a trip to Beamish Museum, Addie was struck by the colourful lights and vibrant colours of the carousel, inspiring the image to be captured.

Thanks to Addie, and to everyone for your continuing submissions.

For a chance to see your own photos featured and to enter our Photo of the Year competition, submit your images here - https://swd.news/photo-submission/

Our Photo of the Year competition is sponsored by Bondgate Gallery.

20/09/2025

Thousands of children and young people in County Durham have benefited from a scheme that provides free activities with healthy meals and snacks over the school holidays. This summer, more than 3,000 children attended almost 40,000 sessions as part of Durham County Council’s Fun and Food programme. Funded by the Department for Education, the programme funds clubs and enriching activities to help ensure that some of the county’s most vulnerable children can socialise, have fun and tuck into healthy meals or snacks on every day of the school holidays. A total of 175 projects were funded in County Durham, with […]

Thousands of children and young people in County Durham have benefited from a scheme that provides free activities with healthy meals and snacks over the school holidays.

19/09/2025

AGLOW, one of the North East’s must-see experiences, will once again dazzle visitors to Auckland Palace in Bishop Auckland this festive season, with one of the tallest Christmas trees in the North, one of the longest outdoor light tunnels in the country, as well as dozens of other breathtaking light installations.

AGLOW, one of the North East’s must-see experiences, will once again dazzle visitors to Auckland Palace in Bishop Auckland this festive season.

19/09/2025

Youth services in 42 areas in England, including County Durham, are being urged not to miss out on a share of the Government’s £30.5 million Better Youth Spaces grant funding, with the deadline for applications at the end of this week.

15/09/2025

Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen is backing a national charity’s efforts to increase reporting of drink or drug driving to save lives.

14/09/2025

People who are out of work and looking for support to get back into employment are being invited to free drop-in sessions hosted by believe housing.

14/09/2025

📷 PHOTO OF THE WEEK 📷

The Photo of the Week this week is titled 'Sisters in light' and was captured by Joe Jackson.

"Two flowers standing tall in the golden hush of evening - a quiet symbol of companionship and gentle strength." says Joe.

"This photo was taken on a quiet woodland trail where the light slipped gently between the trees. These two blooms caught the last of the day's warmth - subtly leaning together, framed by softness.

"For me, this image captures a rare moment of peace and closeness in nature. It reminds me of those still moments where connection, even in silence, is everything".

For a chance to see your own photos featured and to enter our Photo of the Year competition, submit your images here - https://swd.news/photo-submission/

Our Photo of the Year competition is sponsored by Bondgate Gallery.

13/09/2025

Baccanalia, Bishop Auckland’s events management social enterprise has announced that the brand new South West Durham Heritage Festival is now underway, running this September and October across Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland, and Aycliffe.

13/09/2025

A spate of graffiti vandalism on walls, roads and public noticeboards in Bishop Auckland’s Fore Bondgate and Newgate Street, including racist language and nationalist symbolism has shocked the Bishop Auckland community in recent days.

12/09/2025

The Pineapple Gallery in Bishop Auckland is proud to present two forthcoming exhibitions by acclaimed landscape painter John Creighton, offering audiences an intimate journey through his distinctive vision of the North York Moors.

12/09/2025

A proposal to build 70 new homes in Leeholme has been rejected after residents warned their village is being “bombarded” by housing developers.

12/09/2025

Plans to build a new town centre hotel following the demolition of former pubs are set to be approved.