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• Top North East music acts awarded funding to raise global profile

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• Businessman fined £48K after nine people found sleeping in dangerous office block

  The owner of an empty office block in Peterlee has been ordered to pay a £48,000 fine after nine people were found sleeping inside the building during a fire safety check. Tarlochan Singh, 48, from Cryfield Grange Road, Coventry, was the Director of 5th Capital Limited, the owner of Ridgemount House on Bede Way, Peterlee, when concerns were raised with County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service (CDDFRS) that people were sleeping inside the “derelict” building.