St Leonard’s Catholic School, in Durham Picture: GOOGLE CONCERNED parents fear they will no longer by able to send their children to school after bus fees were reportedly doubled. Parents say school bus fees at St Leonard’s Catholic School, in Durham, have risen to £4.50 a day with many fearing how they will pay. Frustrated parent Sarah Cairns, of Esh Winning, has two children enrolled in the school She said: “For my two children it’s going to go up to the £170 a month mark. I don’t know how people are going to afford it especially at a time when people are being put on furlough and being made redundant.
A PARISH clerk in wellies and a man with a hip replacement have been praised after helping thwart a street mugging. The drama unfolded in Atherton Street, Durham, while the city’s parish clerk Adam Shanley was on a walkabout on Wednesday of the area with residents and Durham County Council officers. Mr Shanley said: “I heard a young woman screaming they’ve stolen my purse and these guys ran up the hill. “The neighbourhood warden Paul Rutherford immediately ran out and caught one of them. “Myself and resident Mike Costello ran after the other man and caught him. I got a picture of him but he managed to escape before the police arrived.