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Local News and Politics in Durham City, UK.

• The website of the Durham Advertiser (local newspaper for County Durham, UK)
• The Durham Times, Durham City's new newspaper.
• News from the BBC for the Wearside region.
• Durham University news and events.
• icNortheast - The latest news and sport from the North East of England
• This is the North-East - News, Sport and More from the North-East of England.
• Durham Constabulary Press Office latest news.
• Bishop Auckland Town news.
• News from the District of Chester-le-Street.
• The Darlington and Stockton Times.
• Derwentside and Consett Online Community.
• News from the District of Derwentside.
• News from the District of Easington.
• Peterlee Today - News, sport, jobs, property, cars, entertainments and more.
• SedgefieldWeb Community Website, reporting news and events in Sedgefield, Bradbury and Mordon in County Durham, UK.
• The BBC weather forecast for Durham for the next 5 days.
• Durham business news from the UK Business Park website.
• The North-East Regional Portal - business and current affairs news from North-East England.
• The news desk of Durham4Business.com, the business website for Co. Durham, England.
• Durham FM, an independent radio station based in Durham city centre.
• The official website of Roberta Blackman-Woods, MP for the City of Durham
• The website of North-West Durham, constituency of Hilary Armstrong MP
• A summary of the parliamentary record of Sedgefield MP Tony Blair (Prime Minister 1997- ) at TheyWorkForYou.com
• A summary of the parliamentary record of North-West Durham MP Hilary Armstrong (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 2001- ) at TheyWorkForYou.com
• A summary of the parliamentary record of City of Durham MP Roberta Blackman-Woods at TheyWorkForYou.com
• A summary of the parliamentary record of Easington MP John Cummings at TheyWorkForYou.com
• A summary of the parliamentary record of Bishop Auckland MP Helen Goodman at TheyWorkForYou.com
• A summary of the parliamentary record of North Durham MP Kevan Jones at TheyWorkForYou.com

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• A survey of the views of the 2005 General Election candidates in the City of Durham Constituency, conducted by Alexander Edwards for the Durham21 students website
• LoveVoting.com's overview of the positions of the 2005 General Election candidates in the City of Durham Constituency.
• Durham North West - John Wards's blog of the 2005 General Election campaign in the constituency of Hilary Armstrong MP
• The personal website of Ben Rogers, the Conservative Party's 2005 General Election candidate for the City of Durham.
• The official career biography of Carol Woods, the Liberal Democrats' 2005 General Election candidate for the City of Durham.
• The North-East of England Green Party
• The website of Tony Martin (aka "The Durham Cobbler"), Durham City's 2005 General Election candidate for the Veritas (Kilroy-Silk) party
• Contact details for the North-East regional offices of the UK Independence Party
• The website of Durham City Labour Party
• The website of the Liberal Democrat constituency party of Durham City
• The website of the Conservative constituency party of North Durham
• The website of the Conservative constituency party of North-West Durham
• The website of the Conservative constituency party of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham
• The website of the Conservative constituency party of Darlington and South Durham
• Durham University Labour Club
• Durham University Liberal Democrats Youth and Students Society.
• The blog of Mr Paul Leake, an Independent Durham City councillor originally elected as a Liberal Democrat
• The blog of Mr Nick Wallis, Labour councillor (with responsibility for Highways and Transport) for the borough of Darlington.
• The website of Mr Ian Rutland, independent candidate at the June 2006 by-election for the Framwellgate Moor ward on Durham County Council (thank you to the aforementioned Mr Paul Leake for this information).
• The blog of Mr Michael Fishwick, prospective Conservative candidate for the Durham South County Council by-election
• The official career biography and 2004 European elections campaign site of Mr Chris Foote-Wood, the LibDems' prospective parliamentary candidate for Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham at the 2005 General Election
• Latest Durham County Council press releases
• Durham City Council's website
• Contact details for all of Durham City's elected representatives, part of the Durham City section of UKVillages.co.uk
• The news archive of the media centre for Sedgefield's NETPark science park, a list of recent science-related stories of popular interest

Useful general interest websites

Featured websites and blogs about Durham, UK

• Purple Radio, a local online radio station based in Durham University Student Union, plays the latest indie music.
• Durham AltSoc - the Durham Alternative Music society. See also AltSoc's forum pages.
• NE-Alternative.com - news, information, reviews and gig listings for the North-East of England's alternative music scene.
• Durham21 - "the Durham (UK) students online newspaper and lifestyle magazine."
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  Discussion boards for North-East England, providing auction listings, classified ads and pub and bar meal reviews (among other things). As the North East Forum describes itself: "The North East Forum is County Durham's prime discussion site. We discuss everything from Politics to Restaurants, Gaming to Weather, all with a North Eastern England bias."

• The Gala Theatre and Cinema in Durham City.
• Durham Musical Theatre Company (formerly the Durham Amateur Operatic Society).
• Durham Dramatic Society.
• The website of the Durham Sinfonia orchestra.
• Durham Choral Society.
• The Durham and District Organists and Choirmasters Association.
• Latest Durham Student Theatre listings.
• Durham County Brass Band Association.
• Lanchester Choral and Operatic Society.

• Durham Photographic Society.
• The University of Durham's Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology Research Group.
• The Durham Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers.
• Durham Society of Magicians.
• Durham City Jugglers.
• The South Durham Society of Model Engineers.

• Durham County Local History Society.
• Folk Tales from the North-East of England
• The Durham and Tyneside Dialect Group.
• The Northumbrian Language Society.
• The Durham Light Infantry Museum and Durham Art Gallery.
• The Durham Mining Museum.
• Durham County Record Office.
• Beamish - the North of England Open Air Museum.
• Durham Memories - part of Echo Memories: the definitive history site for the North East.

• VINE (Visual Impairment North East) - a registered charity that supports blind and partially sighted people in the Northeast of England and Cumbria.

• Durham University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Association

• Durham County Cricket Club.
• Almo's World: a student's blog of life in Durham, North East England.
• The blog of Richard Hong, a Chinese student at Durham University's Department of East Asian Studies.

Other interesting stuff

• Streetmap.co.uk
• PEACEFIRE, an organisation that is against net censorship because censorship software doesn't do what it sets out to do (and probably can't).
• Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), an American campaign group that opposes the use of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tagging by Wal-Mart and other retailers to track their products. Among other tactics, it advocates a Tesco Boycott campaign to influence the retailer's policy. The inclusion of this link is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of CASPIAN's views or strategies: just be aware of the technology and make up your own mind what you think about it.
• The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure - an organistaion that campaigns against the patenting of software.
• webmaster forums - webmaster resources - a global online community for webmasters. Webmaster forums, resources and much more.
  
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