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• Coors ready for the big kick-off

  Coors League: The new season will open on Monday 28 June with eleven teams already entered. read more

• Quakers RC

  FIFTY-SEVEN competitors turned out to run the first of the White Horse Handicaps at Harrowgate Hill on May 6. read more

• Falcons move suits Charvis

  WALES captain Colin Charvis has consigned his nightmare 12 months to the history books after signing a two-year deal with Newcastle Falcons. read more

• Selected for the U18 RFUW England Performance Camp

  Another Darlington Mowden Park player is on the first rung of the ladder to being selected to play rugby for England. read more

• Mum and son's winning feeling

  A PENSIONER has won a big National Lottery prize after buying a ticket from the shop of one of her 28 grandchildren. read more

• Listen to the moor, says gamekeeper who is at one with the landscape

  JIMMY Shuttlewood daren't miss going to church. At least that's his way of saying he needs all the help he can get to manage a fragile corner of ecology better known as a grouse moor. read more

• Go-ahead triggers battle for Alvis

  Defence and aerospace group BAE Systems last night launched a multi-million takeover battle for tank maker Alvis. read more

• 'Why it's great to be watching my weight'

  While it is the most common genetic condition in Europe, affecting an estimated one million people in the UK alone, few people have even heard of coeliac disease. Sarah Foster meets a rare diagnosed sufferer. read more

• Camara is option for Boro

  MIDDLESBROUGH have drawn up a back-up plan if bids to sign their top targets fail to materialise. read more

• Gearing up for a rare celestial event

  STAFF and students at Guisborough's Prior Pursglove College are praying for blue skies on Tuesday so that they can witness an extremely rare celestial event. read more

• Procter and Gilby shine on Barbados rally

  LEEMING rally driver Kevin Procter and co-driver Mike Gilby, from Northallerton, notched up an impressive fifth place overall in the Rally Barbados last weekend. read more

• Money pledge and memories - need to build on both

  AN URGENT appeal has gone out for more cash towards the rebuilding and refurbishment of Hutton Rudby Village Hall. read more

• Home Front labours to aid the war effort

  Chris Webber finds out about the incredible effort of North-East industrial workers in the build up to D-Day. read more

• Dyer to make Euro impact, says Speed

  GARY Speed has tipped Newcastle team-mate Kieron Dyer to make a major impression at Euro 2004. read more

• Award for group that saved rural pool

  VOLUNTEERS who run a rural open air swimming pool that almost closed six years ago have been given an award. read more

• Chinese water torture

  IT seems a rarity that we get sufficient sunshine in our English gardens to simply lie back and enjoy the summer warmth. The body needs a good recharge of light and heat every now and again. Why else do we go away on annual holidays and block book sessions on tanning beds if not to soak up the solar rays? read more

• Weller concert

  FANS can see former Jam star Paul Weller play at a concert in Newcastle City Hall on Friday, November 12. read more

• Cricketer of the Month has split international loyalties

  Depending on which side of the world they live on, most young cricketers dream of opening the bowling at either Lord's or Melbourne's MCG. read more

• Government to 'wait and see' on fuel tax increase

  THE Government may rethink plans for a fuel tax rise of up to 2p a litre after hopes of an early cut in oil prices were dashed. read more

• Silver linings

  IT has been a week for the bulldog spirit, apart from the footballers, of course. Euro 2004 has crept up on us, ensuring that football never goes away, and the team with a captain boasting a new tattoo can't even beat Japan. read more

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