One Darlington September 2022
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TICKETS NOW ON<br />
SALE FOR MAJOR<br />
RUGBY CLASH<br />
With just a handful of days until<br />
Rugby League World Cup 2021,<br />
there’s still time to snap up a ticket<br />
for one of the region’s biggest<br />
sporting events.<br />
<strong>One</strong> of the tournament’s fixtures –<br />
a clash between the Cook Islands<br />
and Tonga – is taking place at<br />
Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium<br />
on October 30.<br />
But <strong>Darlington</strong> will also be part<br />
of the action, and the Cook Islands<br />
team will stay at the town’s Rockliffe<br />
Hall and train at Mowden Park.<br />
In the lead up to the event, there will<br />
even be the chance for communities<br />
to meet the team too.<br />
For tickets, visit<br />
www.rlwc2021.com/tickets<br />
AVIATION FIRM PLANS MAJOR AIRPORT INVESTMENT<br />
A global aviation firm based at<br />
Teesside Airport has shown further<br />
confidence in our airport and our<br />
region, with plans to invest up<br />
to £25million at its base there.<br />
Willis Lease Finance Corporation,<br />
along with its subsidiary Willis<br />
Aviation Services, is currently<br />
working on the planning process<br />
for a new aircraft maintenance<br />
facility and has taken over operations<br />
of the airport’s existing Jet Centre.<br />
The plans could create 200<br />
good-quality, well-paid jobs.<br />
It is setting out to build maintenance<br />
hangars on 13 acres of land which<br />
would have become 350 homes had<br />
I not saved the airport from closure<br />
and brought it into public ownership.<br />
It will improve the Jet Centre –<br />
offering a full range of ground<br />
handling services – and expand its<br />
aircraft maintenance, storage<br />
and disassembly capabilities. The<br />
land also forms part of the Teesside<br />
Freeport, the UK’s largest and first<br />
operational Freeport, one key reason<br />
why Willis is beginning the process.<br />
Our routes and summer holiday<br />
flights are hugely important<br />
for our airport, but it’s these<br />
multimillion-pound private sector<br />
investments that will truly secure<br />
its future.<br />
@TeesValleyCA<br />
www.teesvalley-ca.gov.uk<br />
info@teesvalley-ca.gov.uk
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