Celebration tour details for Amy Tinkler revealed
The details of the home-coming tour for North East Olympian Amy Tinkler have been revealed
County Durham’s bronze medal-winning Olympian Amy Tinkler will be officially welcomed home on Saturday with an open-top bus parade.
The 16-year-old will be joined by friends and family on a journey from her home in Bishop Auckland, through the town centre and across to Spennymoor, where a red-carpet celebration party awaits.
Here are the details of where the bus tour will be:
- 11.50am Durham Road, Bishop Auckland - 12.00noon Fore Bondgate, Bishop Auckland - 12.05-12.20pm Market Place, Bishop Auckland - 12.20pm Newgate Street North, Bishop Auckland - 12.30pm Newgate Street Four Clocks Quarter, Bishop Auckland - 12.40pm Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland - 12.45pm St Andrews Road, Bishop Auckland - 1.05pm Byers Green Village Hall - 1.15pm Middlestone Moor front street - 1.20pm Kirk Merrington Village Green - 1.30pm Clyde terrace onto the High Street - 1.35pm Spennymoor Town Show Jubilee Park stops for 15 minutes - 1.50pm Tudhoe Green - 1.55 Through Cheapside - 2.00pm Spennymoor Leisure Centre
Durham County Council’s cabinet member for leisure, libraries and lifelong learning, Maria Plews, said:
“It will be a great pleasure and an honour to welcome Amy back to Spennymoor Leisure Centre, which has been her sporting home since she was two years old.
“The council is proud to support South Durham Gymnastics Club and we hope that Amy’s success will not only be the memory of a lifetime for this talented teenager, but provide the inspiration for a generation of young people to take up a sport or strive to reach their own personal goals, whatever they may be.”