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A PETITION has been launched by campaigners in neighbouring villages who want to put the brakes on plans for a new road. Durham County Council and MP Dehenna Davison have applied for £20m from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund for three projects across the Bishop Auckland constituency. If successful, £10.8m would go on re-routing the A68 to bypass Toft Hill, and the rest on reopening the historic Grade II listed Whorlton Bridge in Teesdale, which is currently shut because it is structurally unsafe, and towards a £15m scheme at Locomotion in Shildon. For years, community leaders, residents and businesses have agreed an A68 bypass is needed to alleviate the volume of traffic, particularly HGVs, passing through Toft Hill.

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