Minutes:
Councillor Moir offered the vote of thanks to the retiring Mayor and in doing so read the list of women who had been Mayor since Alderman Rushford. It had often been suggested that Councillor Blakey was the 10th woman to be Mayor but in fact she was the 11th. The record now put straight Councillor Moir then paid tribute to all the hard work of Councillor and Mr Blakey thanking them on behalf of the children who had visited the Town Hall and been visited by the Mayor, the international and local visitors received by the Mayor, and extending grateful thanks from the people of Durham for her good humour, enthusiasm, availability and commitment in making her year in office most memorable.