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Dhillon's Desserts in Stanley opens new Fencehouses store

A young County Durham businesswoman has opened her second dessert shop, aged just 21.

Simran Dhillion, owner of Dhillion's Desserts in Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)
Simran Dhillion, owner of Dhillion's Desserts in Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)

Simran Dhillon was just 16 years old when she set up her bakery business in Stanley selling a range of sweet treats.


But despite opening just a few months before lockdown her firm went from strength to strength and outgrew its original premises with takeaways booming.


And now she has opened her second site in Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring, and hopes it will be the first of many 'Dhillons Desserts' opening in the coming years.


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