A BOOKLET highlighting part of the North-East's Anglo-Saxon heritage has been launched. Anglo-Saxon Teesside has been produced by Tees Archaeology, a service funded by Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland councils. Peter Rowe,
A BUTCHER has become one of the first meat sellers on Teesside to meet new licensing standards. Morgan's Butchers, in Yarm, has met strict new regulations, introduced after an e-coli outbreak, in Scotland, which killed 21 people in 1996. The regulations
AN MP spoke of his relief last night after police dropped an investigation into a complaint that he assaulted his next-door neighbour's son. Middlesbrough MP Stuart Bell was questioned by officers in July about the allegation after Malcolm Maclure, 31
A NEW bench has been unveiled in Darlington by the Mayor of the borough, Councillor Dorothy Long. Coun Long unveiled the bench in the town's Stanhope Park on Saturday. The Victorian-style metal bench, which can seat up to six people, was bought for £500
FOOTBALL showed a united front yesterday as present-day players joined stars of the past to pay tribute to one of the region's most respected players. Members of the Middlesbrough squad, including Robbie Mustoe, Paul Ince and Gary Pallister, lined up
Labour favourite and North-East MP Mo Mowlam yesterday ended months of rumours over her future and announced that she is to leave front-line politics. But last night the reasons behind her decision remained the subject of intense speculation. The Redcar
A GLUE sniffer terrified staff at an advice centre when he fired a gun, a court heard. Andrew Lawson, 20, pointed the weapon at a woman helper's head at the First Stop Centre, in Darlington, and pulled the trigger before anyone realised it was a cap gun
MENTALLY disabled adults who once faced losing vital day care facilities will receive specialist help. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council feared that Grangetown Day Centre, Teesside, which caters for about 100 people with learning disabilities, would
NORTHUMBRIA Police Authority has launched the first website in England and Wales allowing people to have their say on how their homes are policed. The site, unveiled yesterday, carries information about the work of the authority, its members, and news
THE body of a woman motorcyclist killed in a road accident in the North-East is being flown to her native New Zealand for burial. An inquest into the death of Deborah Ann Philpott was opened and adjourned yesterday by North Durham Coroner Andrew Tweddle
THE Christian Institute will today launch a High Court bid to thwart plans for a sexually explicit exhibition in Newcastle. The institute is attacking Newcastle City Council's decision last month to grant a sex establishment licence to Xsensual Limited
LATEST statistics show the unemployment rate in Derwentside has fallen to under eight per cent, compared with the all-time high of 28 per cent in the area 20 years ago. New Derwentside District Council figures also show that the unemployment rate is dropping
A GEOGRAPHY teacher who was cleared of indecently assaulting a pupil will return to school for the start of term. Michael Pendlington, 51, has been reinstated in his old job as head of department following his acquittal at Teesside Crown Court last month
YOUNG thespians are making final preparations for a first performance of a new musical. Stanley-based group A Spanner in the Works has written and produced the work, called Spin, by themselves. They hope the theme of communities facing new challenges
A STALWART member of the clubs and institutes scene in Darlington has died after a battle against cancer. Stan Connor, 76, worked as a doorman at the Engineers Club in Northgate for six years, and had been a lifelong member. He continued to work on the
A MILITARY jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Teesside Airport after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The twin-engined RAF plane had been on a military exercise yesterday morning from RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, when the pilot radioed
PRESSURE is growing for the resurrection of plans for a bypass for the county town of North Yorkshire. Hambleton District Council is being urged to start talks with the county authority to turn Northallerton's long-awaited dream into reality. An outer
A SUPERMARKET chain has applied to extend its Darlington store. Kwik Save has asked Darlington Borough Council for permission to extend its store at Darlington Retail Park, in Yarm Road. It has asked the council to allow it to demolish the existing store
A CONTROVERSIAL farmers' market looks certain to become an established event - despite objections from High Street stallholders. Traders at Northallerton's weekly town centre markets fear they will lose business to a farmers' market if it is held on a
THE parents of three young hooligans could be ordered to attend classes to learn how to control their children. The two 14-year-olds and an 11-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been terrorising the people of Hardwick in Stockton. Now
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A 48-YEAR-OLD man remained critically ill in hospital last night after being struck by a Metro train at the weekend. The man, who has not been named, was hit by a slow-moving train and became trapped underneath it at the Monument Metro station, in Newcastle
A MAN and a teenager are being questioned by detectives about the death of a 30-year-old religious leader. Father-of-six Ali Rehman was stabbed in the chest following a row in the Middlesbrough mosque, where he was appointed secretary only days ago. He
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THE morning after the Notting Hill carnival, Mr Glen Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, declared that it had been "almost trouble free" and "comparatively peaceful". Now it is disclosed that there were two murders, nineteen stabbings
PLANS to keep an incubation facility for game bird eggs in a North-East village have met with opposition from residents and conservationists. Darlington Borough Council has received an application for planning permission to keep an incubation house and
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RIGHT-WING extremists were described as "despicable" last night for using the case of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne to promote their policies. The BNP has targeted the Cockerton East area of Darlington, where it has a candidate in a forthcoming council
AIR quality in Stockton is set to meet all national standards in the next five years, according to officials. In a report to the council's Environment Select Committee, Andy Edwards, the director of environment and technical services, said a review of
FIVE generations of a North-East family gathered together to celebrate the birth of a baby boy. Great-great grandmother Dora Highley had to wait a few weeks until members of each of the five generations, spanning 87 years, were able to get together. The
A PIZZA restaurant worker was jailed for nine months yesterday after admitting buying cocaine to share with friends. Yavuz Cakiroglu was in possession of six wraps of white powder when police searched him in Darlington in February. Yesterday, Cakiroglu
FIRST impressions: before the expansive menu even begins, a whole page is devoted to a warning that anyone taking a mobile phone into the restaurant will be eviscerated and served up with special fried rice. It's much more politely phrased, of course,
The first community warden for Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council started work yesterday. The council plans a one-month trial in the Eston area, ahead of what it hopes will be aproval for government funding to become one of a series of nationwide pilots
PARENTS in Darlington have been warned not to breach parking laws when dropping their children off at school or they face being prosecuted. Police and traffic wardens in the town warned last night that they "would begin as they planned to go on". Their
A MUSEUM nearing the end of lengthy renovation work has reopened a few weeks ahead of schedule to showcase an exhibition. Durham University's Oriental Museum is undergoing a £500,000 refit, creating new gallery space to expand the number of exhibits from
A CRUEL driver threw a cat from the window of his car as he drove along a busy road. The young male tabby had been wrapped in a plastic bag before it was discarded by the motorist on the A167 at Coat-ham Mundeville, near Darlington, on Friday night. A
A 39-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with the manslaughter of three women pedestrians who died after being struck by a car. Teacher Angela Ovington, 28, of Chester-le-Street, County Durham, and NHS worker Susan Briggs, 30, of Durham,
THE group representing victims of Richard Neale have called for free tests for women who fear they have contracted HIV from the disgraced surgeon. The call was made by Graham Maloney, spokesman for the 200-strong Action and Support Group for Medical Victims
A SURGEON said yesterday that high child mortality rates in one of Britain's most deprived areas were due, in part, to below-par medical standards. Dr Feyi Awotona said her efforts in trying to improve the clinical standards at South Tyneside Hospital
Sally Slater, the six-year-old who was given just hours to live before a heart transplant saved her life, takes another big step on the road to recovery when she returns to school today. It is more than five months since Sally, from Kirkby Malham, in
MEMBERS of a tiny religious community are breathing a collective sigh of relief as the final touches are put to a £20,000 refurbishment of their north Durham village church. Worshippers at the Methodist church in the small village of Bradley Cottages,
POLICE on Wearside believe a masked gang is responsible for street robberies in which two men were attacked. A 21-year-old man was threatened by three thugs and had a knife held to his face in The Royalty, off Chester Road, in Sunderland. He was forced
POLICE have charged or cautioned a dozen people in connection with a street disturbance in a Tyneside village. At one point 100 people were involved in the trouble, in Winlaton, Gateshead. Officers from Gateshead West had to call in reinforcements from
A PENSIONER says he is having to dress and wash his disabled daughter because the council has withdrawn her carer. But Durham County Council's social services departments says it will provide a carer if he accepts a bed adapted for use with a hoist. Walter
A FORMER betting shop could soon become home for dozens of abandoned reptiles. Members of one of the country's leading reptile specialist organisations, the Reptile Trust, have applied for permission to convert the former William Hills at Burnopfield,
UNEMPLOYED people in some areas of Teesside will be helped back to work by a £500,000 scheme - while those in others will miss out. When employment chiefs heard that the region was in line for the government's Action Team for Jobs, they assumed it would
A NORTH-EAST family are praying for an aid volunteer who may be facing police questions in Romania. Nothing has been heard of 52-year-old Rod Jones for nine days, since he left the Teesside base of Convoy Aid, the charity he founded, to take essential
A LANDLADY is appealing to The Northern Echo's readers to help her trace the history of her pub. Mandie Swales, who has run The North Eastern in Clarence Street, Spennymoor, for four years, has just held a party to celebrate its 100th birthday. Regulars
A £1m Government scheme has been launched to improve schooling in deprived areas of east Durham. Easington, Seaham and Peterlee have all been declared Education Action Zones by the Department for Education and Employment, entitling underprivileged schools
A WHOLE family took part in a sponsored swim to help raise £500 for the Bishop Auckland Diabetes Laser Appeal. Barbara Steele, from Hunwick, organised her family into two relay teams - children versus grandchildren - for the challenge at Glenholme baths
A GROUP of 15 employees from a Darlington supermarket have raised more than £2,000 for a cancer charity. The group, from the Iceland store in Yarm Road, gave the Cancer Research Campaign a cheque of £2,311 on Saturday night. The team of fundraisers based
REVAMPED waiting rooms have been unveiled at a North-East railway station. The passenger lounges - for both first class and standard passengers - between platforms one and four at Darlington's Bank Top station. Part of a £9m package of station improvements
COUNCIL chiefs plan to tighten security to clamp down on vandals who have reduced garages on a Hartlepool estate to semi-dereliction. The Wentworth Grove garages site at Clavering, has become a magnet for gangs of youths indulging in a range of anti-social
UNDERCOVER police officers involved in an investigation into the trade of heroin and cocaine in the centre of a North-East town were praised by a judge yesterday. Judge Peter Fox QC jailed six of the nine people who appeared before him, and then said
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A MAN whose dog was found whimpering and in "considerable pain" with an untreated hernia, received a life ban from keeping animals yesterday. Robert Michael Miln, 60, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his black and tan German shepherd
