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• Stranger than paradise

  THE Pitcairn Islands, way out in the Pacific Ocean, are Britain's most isolated inhabited possession, but this week they've been making headlines in the heart of the old Empire with the lurid court case involving half of the islands' males. read more

• Antiques valuation day

  ANTIQUES experts Bonhams are hosting a valuation day to raise money for hospice patients. read more

• Look Out - shopping mall sculpture unveiled

  ONE of the most eye-catching works of art to go on display in the North-East is to be officially unveiled next week. read more

• Boss fears for the future of Lawyers after pitch collapse

  Tow Law manager Geoff Young admits he is worried about the team's immediate future. read more

• Police defend role after 'dusting' attack on by-election candidate

  POLICE have hit back at criticisms that they failed to protect a candidate as the Hartlepool by-election result was announced early yesterday. read more

• 02/10/04

  REGIONAL ASSEMBLY: THE Great North Run has once again highlighted the fantastic spirit of the North-East and the cohesiveness of the area. read more

• Hodgson is content to bide his time

  CONTINUITY is not a word you would often associate with Darlington manager David Hodgson - especially when it comes down to team selection. read more

• 'Idiot' who dazzled pilot with spotlight

  A POLICE spotter plane came within seconds of disaster after a powerful light was shone into the cockpit - blinding the pilot, a court heard. read more

• Jailed breeder's hunger protest

  A BIRD breeder threatened to go on hunger strike yesterday after being jailed for failing to pay a £150,000 court order. read more

• Psalms and celebrations as Ethel gives thanks for her marvellous life

  AFTER a lifetime as a staunch Methodist, a former lay preacher had a special sermon to deliver to mark her 100th birthday. read more

• British Energy loses £115m

  BRITISH Energy blamed quarterly losses of £115m announced yesterday on operating and one-off costs. read more

• Youngsters have fun at opening of new sure start centre

  TWO toddlers became VIPs for the day when they officially opened a new £550,000 Sure Start centre. read more

• 'Tessider' Hignett more than happy to be home

  Scouser Craig Hignett sees his return to the North-East Darlington as a homecoming. The former Middlesbrough favourite tells sports writer Lee Hall of his love affair with the region. read more

• Man changes plea over death crash

  A MAN has changed his plea and denied driving a killer motorist away from the scene of a fatal crash. read more

• Mad about fashion

  WITH Fatty and Skinny, sorry Susannah and Trinny, on the case the current state of women's clothing seems to suggest that nearly all females are badly dressed. Nobody of maturity should wear bold floral patterns, lively pinks, hoops or anything with lapels ever again... and God forbid you should see a knicker-line. Poor mother-of-three Sara Waddington from York actually had her big "Bridget Jones" removed on camera in the first of a new series of What Not To Wear (BBC1, Weds). S and, most definitely, T bullied the poor woman into a blubbering heap as they changed her from a fleece-topped frump to a femme fatale. "This pair are completely mad, some of the clothes they come up with are hopelessly wrong for these women," said my own fashion guru at home. She was fetchingly attired in one of my old football shirts and a pair of sweatpants that have seen better days. To be fair to her, we'd actually broken off from a week-long struggle to redecorate a dining room which now contains the world's heaviest piano and a large dining table. Those who can remember Bernard Cribbins singing Right Said Fred are painting the right nook and cranny. My paint-splattered partner was also less than impressed with Constantine and Woodall's new TV format of inviting five youngish mums to the studio and telling three to depart unclothed, as it were. read more

• A bit of a giggle - with a serious message

  A 45ft-high picture of someone sitting on the toilet greeted workers on a North-East industrial estate yesterday. read more

• 'Idiot' who dazzled pilot with spotlight

  A POLICE spotter plane came within seconds of disaster after a powerful light was shone into the cockpit - blinding the pilot, a court heard. read more

• Angry Bernard threatens walk-out if board stall on contract

  OLIVIER Bernard last night challenged Newcastle's board to make him an improved contract offer before January. read more

• Ere the winter sales begin

  TO some of us, it should at once be admitted, a shopping centre is the approximate equivalent of hell on earth, a place of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and, quite possibly, of nervous palpitations. read more

• Market slowdown fails to rock mortgage lender

  MORTGAGE lender Northern Rock took evidence of a faltering property market in its stride yesterday after reporting a continued strong trading performance. read more

On this day: The North East Archive