POLICE are trying to solve a three-month-old mystery by turning to the public for help. In September, the body of a woman was found in a stream in the Yorkshire Dales, but despite intensive efforts, detectives have been unable to identify her. They are
Nominations for the two vacancies which will arise for elected representatives on Yorkshire's members' committee must reach Headingley by noon on New Year's Eve. Long-serving committee member, Sid Fielden, will not seek re-election at the club's annual
COOKING the Christmas dinner is actually quite straightforward. Bung the bird in the oven, baste it occasionally and try not to forget about it once you've started on the booze. It's the extras that can make life complicated. Especially in a crowded kitchen
ONE of the biggest causes of abortion in ewes may be passed down from generation to generation. Cats and their faeces have always been blamed as the main source of toxoplasma, but a meeting in Wensleydale last week heard there was now evidence that some
A FAMILIAR figure at the Great Yorkshire Show is to be the new honorary show director. Bill Cowling, associated with the Yorkshire Agricultural Society for many years, is known to many as the show's chief cattle steward. He will succeed Christopher Hall
While publicly they are expressing sympathy for the recently departed Home Secretary, I think the Conservatives will be cock-a-hoop at claiming such a prestigious scalp. But when the dust settles on the Blunkett affair, I suspect it will be the Prime
BARNARD CASTLE. - Tues. Fwd: 18 feeding bulls, 99 stores. Bulls. - Char to £625; Lim to £575; BB Blue to £525. Steers. - Lim to £750; BB Blue to £690; Blonde to £575. Hfrs. - Char to £575; Lim to £578; BB Blue to £582. Fdg bulls: S Bayles & Son £440
A HIGH quality copy of the Lindisfarne Gospels is being displayed at venues across the North-East in a collaborative touring exhibition organised by the British Library and regional museums. The full colour copy, which faithfully reproduces the intricate
While publicly they are expressing sympathy for the recently departed Home Secretary, I think the Conservatives will be cock-a-hoop at claiming such a prestigious scalp. But when the dust settles on the Blunkett affair, I suspect it will be the Prime
EASTLANDS Mighty Mark has once again qualified for the Shetland Grand National at this week's Olympia International Horse Show. The feisty little bay gelding from the Knix Stud was ridden by up and coming star Lucy Burke from Spigot Lodge, Middleham.
VITAL improvement work to the overloaded Middleton One Row sewerage system will not take place until 2006. On Monday night, Alan Tier, a works manager for Northumbrian Water, told Middleton St George Parish Council that the sewerage works had reached
A RETIRED Teesside industrialist, Dr Jim Whiston, was loudly applauded at St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough, when Bishop John Crowley presented him with an award from Pope John Paul on Sunday. The bishop said the Knighthood of St Gregory was being conferred
A young North-East soldier's target practice session ended with a police officer being wounded in the face. Brent Jessop, 22, pleaded guilty to an assault occasioning actual bodily harm. But A Judge at Durham Crown Court yesterday accepted Jessop did
Job cuts could be on the horizon for the beleaguered Cleveland police force but bosses have promised not to reduce front-line officers. Faced with the prospect of having to make nearly £4.5 million in savings in next year's budget the force is carrying
Champagne corks were popping at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, last night to mark the amazing end of a Macmillan Cancer Relief campaign. Health Editor Barry Nelson reports. WHEN Macmillan Cancer Relief considered the statistics for County Durham three
Leisure facilities in Darlington have received a major boost after a £70,000 sports complex refurbishment. MP Alan Milburn performed the official honours at the re-opening of Eastbourne Leisure Centre today. The centre was first opened by Prime Minister
PATIENTS will have been duped if a hospital trust moves any services from Northallerton to Teesside, councillors warned. Strong opposition would be lodged to any reduction in services at the Friarage Hospital following the review by South Tees Hospitals
A CHARITY is celebrating after it raised £760,000 for cancer care - far more than its original target of £600,000. Last night, officials from the Macmillan Cancer Relief charity paid tribute to the response from the people of County Durham and acknowledged
THIRSK had its own Florence Nightingale in the form of a little-known heroine, Hannah Packer. But although born and bred in the town, she is more likely to be remembered in the place where she worked and died - loved and respected - in Cunapiro, Uruguay
HARTLEPOOL United chairman Ken Hodcroft has scoffed at claims that former Newcastle chairman Sir John Hall is about to get involved with the League One club. Sir John, Newcastle's president and shareholder, has been a regular at Pool home games this season
FIFTY-NINE racecourses grace the British scene, but few have been to all and even rarer is a man who has trained a winner at each and every one. Patrick Haslam achieved that rare feat on Friday at Cheltenham, when King Revo won under champion Tony McCoy
POLICE are just "well-paid baby sitters" in villages around Darlington at weekends. This was the picture painted to members of Hurworth Parish Council this week. PC Karl Lowe said officers often spent Friday and Saturday nights "chasing around after kids
AN art club is celebrating a cash boost that will help it to enlist the services of a professional art tutor and stock up on materials. Fishburn Art Group, in County Durham, has been awarded a £2,000 community chest grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal
MARITIME pictures of the North-East coastline have gone on display. Amanda Hurst, from Tantobie, near Stanley, is exhibiting some of her photographs at Stanley Library, in the High Street. Called The Nautical Collection, it includes shots of the Northumbrian
A LIGHT show, which transformed a town centre into an open air gallery this week, finishes tomorrow. Artwork and film have been projected on to buildings in Spennymoor town centre for an art project launched on Tuesday. Images have also been projected
PUPILS and staff at High Coniscliffe Primary School, near Darlington, have plenty to smile about after another set of bumper exam results. All the schools' key stage two pupils achieved the benchmark standard of level four in English, maths and science
THE success of criminal justice schemes has been shown to a Home Office minister for the Criminal Justice System and Law Reform. Baroness Scotland visited Darlington this week to meet victims of youth crime and young offenders. Some of the crime initiatives
TRIBUTES have been paid to a primary school teacher. Maureen McPartland, who taught the upper infants class at All Saints' RC Primary School, in Lanchester, died last Thursday. The 58-year-old, who lived in Willowtree Avenue, in Gilesgate Moor, Durham
A TEESSIDE school has won £100 in a national prize draw. Egglescliffe School, near Stockton, won the money after pupils took part in a Royal Bank of Scotland finance and business skills course. Jo Richardson, a teacher at the school, said: "The Royal
THOUSANDS of steelworkers got an early Christmas present yesterday with the announcement that Corus has secured the future of its Teesside operation for the next decade. The ten-year deal to supply a consortium of overseas companies ends nearly two years
A YOUTH branded a persistent drunken nuisance has been banned from behaving like a lout. Dean Laing, 15, of Briardale, Delves Lane, near Consett, has been made the subject of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo). PC Jonathan Hamill, beat officer for
PASSENGER numbers on the Metro system on Tyneside and Wearside have risen by 150,000 since rail company Nexus introduced off-peak fares at the end of October.
A TEENAGER who caused years of misery for a businessman has been made the subject of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo). Mohan Gill and his family, who own a shop in Suffolk Street, Hendon, Sunderland, suffered years of racist abuse and insults, which
A MAN was trapped in his car for two hours after it careered off a bridge into a stream. Firefighters were called to the crash on the B6313 in Glen Terrace in Chester-le-Street, at about 7pm on Tuesday. Police said the driver, a 20-year-old man from the
PUPILS took to the stage this week for a drama club's first annual pantomime. The Performing Arts after-hours club at Cestria Primary School, Church Chare, Chester-le-Street, presented Cinders, a musical panto version of the classic Cinderella fairy tale
STEVE COTTERILL takes his Burnley side to the Stadium of Light tomorrow confessing his spell at Sunderland was the most difficult period of his life. The Burnley boss spent five ill-fated months on Wearside as Howard Wilkinson's assistant. The move turned
ALLOTMENT holders in a former pit village have been asked to down tools and not eat produce from their plots because of contamination fears. Plot holders on West Cornforth's Thrislington allotments have been urged to leave crops in the ground because
DARLINGTON'S Trinidad-born mayor says problems of racism are worse than people think. Coun Roderick Francis spoke out as a council committee considered a report on racial incidents in the town's schools. The mayor said he found the present situation "
PLANS to build a women's refuge on the outskirts of Durham City have sparked opposition from residents. Three Rivers Housing has applied to Durham City Council for permission to construct eight self-contained flats for women and children. Phillip Nixon
IT CAN almost be guaranteed that many of us will receive Christmas cards bearing images of stage coaches on backgrounds varying from rough, snow-bound rural roads to fashionable town centres. Even if the reality does not match the glamour and romance
AN APPEAL has been launched in Hartlepool for wartime items to help teach youngsters about the past. The Learning Team at the Museum of Hartlepool is asking for donations of artefacts relating to the Home Front during both world wars. Claire Munroe, of
A DELEGATION including Dr Ashok Kumar MP and Barry Parvin, the owner of Graceland nursing home in Guisborough, is to lobby Social Services Minister Stephen Ladyman. Dr Kumar has secured a meeting with Mr Ladyman to discuss the financial difficulties facing
CARLISLE. - Mrs ME Brown's Windyhill Limousins of Houserigg, Aspatria, Cumbria, took all seven leading prices at a sale of unhaltered females on Friday. 89 females (+14 on the year) sold to an average of £1185 (+£35 on the year). Topping the day's trade
FUNERAL homes across Cleveland are inviting people to pay tribute to their loved ones and help a worthy cause this Christmas. The homes, all part of the Co-op Funeral Service, have joined the Tree of Life bauble appeal in aid of Teesside Hospice. Trees
POSTPONEMENT of the planned works to upgrade the A1 from Dishforth to Scotch Corner is bad news indeed for the economy of the North-East and North Yorkshire. The inadequacies of the present dual carriageway with its myriad crossings and sub-standard junctions
HMS Richmond, the town's adopted ship, which helped in relief operations after Hurricane Ivan hit the Caribbean, returned to the UK on Wednesday. The Type 23 frigate, which is back in Portsmouth, sent medics and medical supplies to the islands of Grenada
A UNION that was backing taxi drivers opposing a council over a controversial driving test has stopped short of going to the Court of Appeal. The decision by Amicus means the two-and-a-half-year battle between taxi drivers and Darlington Borough Council
CHILDREN enjoyed the sights and sounds of a bygone Christmas when they visited Ormesby Hall last Friday. More than 80 youngsters from Ormesby Primary School were invited by the National Trust to re-create an estate family Christmas party as it would have
D-Day veteran Fred Cooper, 83, served with The Green Howards throughout the Second World War. Chris Webber met him. DOUGHTY and proud, old soldier Fred Cooper leaves no doubt about his opinions on the Government's proposals for his old regiment. "It's
PEOPLE who attend a Teesside day centre have been helping protect wildlife. Six users of the Warren Road Day Centre, in Hartlepool, teamed up with the town's Countryside Warden Service to make bird boxes for next year's nesting season. The group has produced
COFFEE AND CRAFTS: A coffee morning with craft stalls will be held in St. Peters Church, North Skelton, on Saturday, from 10am until noon. BLESSING SERVICE:A Children's service and Blessing of the Crib will be held in All Saints Church, Skelton, on Christmas
POSTMAN Kevin Bute kept more than 1,600 letters in the boot of his car because he got lost while on his rounds. Bute, 19, was arrested on September 9. He was caught with 1,607 unopened letters and 11 opened ones. Bute, of Featherstone Street, Sunderland
FATHER Christmas joined in the fun as youngsters at a Teesside school learned about how we use electricity and gas in our everyday lives. Santa Claus visited St Bede's RC Primary, in the Newtown area of Stockton, as part of an education programme by energy
NEW affordable homes are set to take the place of a former sheltered housing scheme in Norton. The disused Albany House, in Berkshire Road, will make way for the homes under a partnership between Stockton Council and the Tees Valley Housing Group. Construction
LABOUR MP Ashok Kumar will meet Health Minister Stephen Ladyman to discuss local nursing home fees. The Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP announced the meeting after the Gracelands Nursing Home, in Guisborough, came close to closure. Mr Kumar
Apprentice Ben Nicholson thought he was in the firing line in his first week at work - after accidentally ordering a £2.7m battle tank. Ben, 24, was looking for quotes for a water storage tank and was unaware his boss had slipped in a number for defence
A campaign to cut the number of motorcycle deaths in North Yorkshire is paying off, with the toll of fatalities dropping rapidly. The county's roads act as honeypot for bikers and in the past many have paid their lives. But, following a joint campaign
SOME of North Yorkshire's most spectacular countryside is in line for a facelift under plans to help restore ancient woodlands, crumbling ruined buildings and landscape features. The work is due to be carried out over the next five years as part of the
EDUCATION: REDCAR and Cleveland Borough Council is at it again. This time it wants to cut costs by reducing administration and classroom staff pay and giving them more hours - undermining the education of local children. Yet many people in Redcar and
RESIDENTS of a village in the North York Moors National Park village say its cottages should be used as permanent homes and not for holiday accommodation, Villagers at 1,000-year-old Lockton are concerned about the increasing number of holiday cottages
A MODERN-DAY Scrooge has launched a hate campaign against Christmas decorations on a plush housing estate. Families have been accused of displaying 'cheap and tacky taste' in festive lights by a mysterious letter writer, known only as The House Doctor
THE Green Howards, one of the Army's oldest regiments, is to merge with two others in one of the biggest defence shake-ups in decades. But its identity will not be lost and it will live on as one of the battalions in a new Yorkshire Regiment - destined
Sherburn Hill Salvation Army Band and Songsters, featuring guest soloist Marjorie Watt, will be joined by children from Sherburn Hill Primary School for a community carol service at 7pm tomorrow. The event takes place at the community centre, in Front
SUNDERLAND footballer John Oster spent a night in police cells following an incident outside a North-East nightclub. The 26-year-old Welsh International right midfielder, who is on loan to fellow Championship club Leeds United, was arrested with another
A PUBLIC meeting has been organised to discuss plans for 21 homes in High Coniscliffe. A planning application has been submitted to Darlington Borough Council for 16 flats and five terrace houses on the former site of Dick Lawson's garden machinery centre
GRAEME Souness cancelled Newcastle's Christmas party in Edinburgh this week and, by grinding out a 1-1 draw with Sporting Lisbon, his players last night ensured there would be no reason for the club's fans to celebrate either. The point might have earned
Two police officers were injured this morning when their car crashed into a church wall in Durham City. The officers suffered slight injuries when their marked police car smashed into the wall of St Patrick's RC Church, in Meadowfield, shortly after midnight
PEOPLE gathered in a North town yesterday to mark the 90th anniversary of a bombardment in which 120 people, including 44 children, died. At 8.10am, the Reverend Jon Goode, of St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool, read survivors' accounts at the exact time the
THE number of football banning orders imposed on hooligan fans in the region has increased by 50 per cent in six months. Police forces have used tough new powers to bring supporters before the courts and have them barred from matches at home and abroad
POLICE are trying to solve a three-month-old mystery by turning to the public for help. In September, the body of a woman was found in a stream in the Yorkshire Dales, but despite intensive efforts, detectives have been unable to identify her. They are
LONG distance councillor Stephen Gregory, who has claimed £4,500 in allowances for representing his Bishop Auckland ward while living in the Caribbean, resigned this afternoon. The former butcher walked into Crook Civic Centre and handed receptionists
DEADLOCK has been reached in a three-year saga over a new lease for the century-old community centre at Saltburn. Coun Barbara Harpham, of Saltburn, has appealed for an end to the "impasse" over a proposed lease for the theatre and hall by owners Redcar
COUNCIL planners have sparked safety fears among homeowners by backing plans to demolish a house in the middle of a terrace. Neighbours living next to the decaying 19th Century property told of their concerns that their property could collapse as the
WHO ate all the pies? It seems people at a national food fair did, for local supplier Taste Tradition, launched from a farm at Cold Kirby, near Thirsk, completely sold out the event's first day. It was the same on the firm's first outing, at the Dales
A WORKER at a poultry farm where thousands of dead and dying birds were discovered has been found guilty of animal cruelty. Ian Raw, 41, of Moor View, Cockfield, County Durham, was found guilty of 13 charges relating to the welfare of chickens at the
SEVEN of the largest companies at the Wilton International site in Teesside have announced a common policy for dealing with safety that is believed to be a world-first. SembCorp Utilities UK, Huntsman, Dow, Uniqema, DuPontSA, Invista and pxlimited have
AN inquest opens today into the death of a Teesdale pensioner in a car crash. A friend of Edward Lewis Chambers, 81, of Mount Pleasant, Cockfield, paid tribute to the man she described as a perfect neighbour. Mr Chambers, a former chiropodist, died in
PRINCE Charles made a 96-year-old woman's wish come true on his recent visit to Middleton in Teesdale. Nellie Embrey, one of the village's oldest residents, had left her front door open all day in the hope the Prince might pay her a call. Her wish was
THE Green Howards, one of the Army's oldest regiments, is to merge with two others in one of the biggest defence shake-ups in decades. But its identity will not be lost and it will live on as one of the battalions in a new Yorkshire Regiment - destined
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an elderly woman was mugged as she walked home. The 76-year-old got off a bus at about 8.15pm at the James Cook University Hospital, in Overdale Road, Middlesbrough. As she walked home, a man pushed her into bushes
HAVING tipped Boro pre-season to finish above Newcastle, I'm beginning to wish I'd had a large wager. It increasingly strikes me that the Smoggies are doing everything right, while the Geordies continue to labour under the impression that 52,000 will
IN-FORM jockey Paddy Brennan has been entrusted with partnering Benbyas (1.55) on his eagerly- anticipated fencing debut at Uttoxeter. Brennan, fresh from a fabulous four-timer at Doncaster on Saturday, need not have too many worries about the jumping
A FATHER has been found guilty of attempting to bribe a witness during a police investigation into the murder of a North-East market trader. Thomas Harrison, 62, got an associate to threaten witness Rowena Frost and handed her money so she would change
Newcastle prop Marius Hurter will leave the Falcons this month to finish his career in South Africa. Hurter, the former Springbok tight-head who joined Newcastle in 1998, wants to return home to further his law studies and his wife is expecting their
TWO hundred children treated their parents and friends to a celebration of Christmas through the ages yesterday. St Anne's Primary in Bishop Auckland, filled St Andrew's Church, South Church, for the Christmas service. A traditional nativity tableau presented
COUNCILLORS have given overwhelming backing for an £8m restoration scheme for Harrogate's crumbling Royal Hall - despite Ripon City Council's plea not to do so. At a meeting of Harrogate Borough Council on Wednesday, 36 voted in favour of the project
A PROMINENT protestor against a £55m seafront development has received an arson threat, warning him to drop his campaign. Comic Chris McGlade has rallied for support from Redcar residents opposed to the Coatham Enclosure, which will see 285 houses and
THE power company refused permission to build a windfarm near Tony Blair's house says it is disappointed by the decision. But EDF Energy has not said yet if it will appeal against the decision by LibDem-controlled Durham City Council. It wants to build
From this newspaper 100 years ago.- A sudden outbreak of typhoid fever has hit Bishop Auckland, affecting 20 people in the past week. At Darlington a furnace man working at the forge works was injured on Saturday. Albert Wedge had his right foot severely
A CHARITY is celebrating after it raised £760,000 for cancer care - far more than its original target of £600,000. Last night, officials from the Macmillan Cancer Relief charity paid tribute to the response from the people of County Durham and acknowledged
THE festive period has been marked with a real splash of colour in one North Yorkshire community. For the first time, the Victorian fountain at Masham has been given a truly seasonal look with the addition of green and white Christmas lights. The move
POLICE are searching for a lorry involved in a three-car accident in which a woman sustained suspected fractured legs. The heavy goods vehicle, believed to have been delivering Calor Gas or hazardous chemicals, left the scene of the crash, on the B1280
FOR a team ranked No 2 in the world, England will go into their Test series with South Africa today in an unusually nervy mood. Last weekend's seven-wicket defeat by South Africa A has burst some of the unbridled optimism that has coursed through English
FIRE chiefs took time out to help a community with a one-day clean-up operation. Officers joined forces with Cleveland Police and Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to tidy the streets of South Bank, Middlesbrough, yesterday. Aimed at making the area
FARMERS and police have joined forces to reduce the increasing number of thefts from farms and stables in the Stockton area. Stockton Police crime reduction department and farmers are offering to security-mark horse saddles and other equipment at a reduced
A NEW home has been found for a model of a railway carriage. Last month, owner Trans-pennine Express tried to tempt collectors by offering the 23-metre replica on the Internet auction site eBay, but failed to find any takers. Now it has been bought by
DARLINGTON'S League Two promotion hopes were given a double boost this week when striker Alun Armstrong sealed a 3-0 win over Leyton Orient and then signed on until the end of the season. The former Middlesbrough player's decision to extend his stay at
BUSINESS leaders and politicians across the region toasted the deal of the decade yesterday after steelmaker Corus secured the future of more than 6,000 jobs in the North-East. Corus announced an agreement that will see its Teesside operation supply a
Hundreds of Cleveland's court dodgers will receive a visit from the police this Christmas. Letters are being sent to people who have failed to turn up for court appearances with a message advising them to visit their nearest police station or face the
THE physiotherapy unit at the Friarage Hospital, in Northallerton, has received a early Christmas present in the form of a new cross trainer. The £700 machine was donated by Mike Medley, of Physique Training Equipment, in Colne, Lancashire. Mike donated
STEVE COTTERILL takes his Burnley side to the Stadium of Light tomorrow confessing his spell at Sunderland was the most difficult period of his life. The Burnley boss spent five ill-fated months on Wearside as Howard Wilkinson's assistant. The move turned
CHILDREN'S author Rikey Austin will be in Durham City next week to sign copies of her latest book. The Dorset-based bestselling author will be at Bear Bottoms, on Elvet Bridge, between 11am and 3pm on Monday to meet children and sign copies of her books
SCHOOLCHILDREN have raised more than £300 for a children's hospice. Youngsters in form 7MC at Bedale High School were each given a tube of Smarties by Ian Marr, of Bedale Community Education. The pupils were asked to bring the tube back full of coins
A PLAN to build two detached homes in a village has sparked objections and a strong recommendation for refusal. The plan would see the dormer bungalows being built on land at Back Lane, Kirkby Malzeard, near Ripon. But planning officer Mike Warden said
Off the field activities are again dominating, or at least rivalling, the on-pitch activities at St James' Park. If the British film industry were to capture the goings on in celluloid, it would be probably called St Pantomime Park and resemble something
THE number of football banning orders imposed on hooligan fans in the region has increased by 50 per cent in six months. Police forces have used tough new powers to bring supporters before the courts and have them barred from matches at home and abroad
PS2, Price: £104.99: PROS: A mammoth back catalogue means there is a game for every taste, lots of interesting peripherals. CONS: Getting on a bit now, expensive. IT'S ten years since Sony rocked the world of videogames with the first PlayStation. Ten
THE gleaming shell surrounding The Sage Gateshead reflects not only the music aspirations of the North-East, but acts as a symbol of a cultural resurgence in the region. It embodies a confidence that cultural and creative industries will spur an economic
MUSIC, flags and cheers welcomed the Prince of Wales to the village of Muker, in Swaledale, last Friday. Hundreds of people of all ages lined the street outside the Swaledale Woollens shop to greet Prince Charles as he paid a visit to mark the business
Today, a £70m centre for music in the North-East opens. Gavin Engelbrecht looks at what The Sage Gateshead has to offer. THE gleaming shell surrounding The Sage Gateshead reflects not only the music aspirations of the North-East, but acts as a symbol
Paul Burrell In His Own Words (C4); X Rated; The Scenes They Tried To Ban (five): HIS time as a jungle celebrity showed royal butler Paul Burrell's limited vocabulary, mainly a chorus of "ooohs" and "aarghs" as he ate live bugs or plunged his hand into
STRONG recommendations to improve out-of-hours GP services in the Dales were adopted by Richmondshire District Council. The findings of the authority's community and environment overview and scrutiny committee will now go to the county council health
FEARS have been expressed that the starting date of revived plans for a three-lane A1 motorway between Dishforth and Barton could be delayed indefinitely because of Government budget cuts. An e-mail sent by a Highways Agency project manager to the chairman
HEALTH programmes to fight child obesity and help older people to lead more active and independent lives have received a £300,000 shot in the arm. The Healthy Horizons project has won £220,000 from the Lottery-funded body, Active England. The initiative
MORE children at a North-East special school will be able to enjoy outdoor pursuits, thanks to The Northern Echo. Villa Real School, in Consett, County Durham, has received a £2,500 donation from Gannett Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the newspaper's
In what has been hailed as its most important judgement of recent years, the House of Lords yesterday ruled that the detention of foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws. Nick Morrison looks at how the Government's anti-terror
A YOUNG worker who was dragged into an unguarded machine was told by doctors he was inches from death. Darren Foley, 24, has scars and needs weekly visits to hospital after the accident, which trapped his left arm in a tyre shredding machine. An emergency
THE chief executive of Darlington Borough Council confirmed last night he was leaving his post. Barry Keel, who has been with the authority for eight years, will take up the same position at Plymouth City Council next month. The 52-year-old, who started
GRAEME SOUNESS claimed he was satisfied with his team's performance last night, despite a small section of the crowd booing as the side went off at the end. The Newcastle boss saw his young and inexperienced, under-strength side claim the point needed
Crook Town 0 Northallerton Town 1 NORTHALLERTON Town's impressive run continued with a hard-fought victory at Crook Town last Saturday. Town have taken 22 points from their last eight league games and are now equal third in division two, but they are
AFRICAN musicians will be bringing a carnival flavour to Christmas this weekend. Robert Maseko and the Congo Beat are performing at the North-East of England African Community Association Christmas party in Newcastle tomorrow. The event, in Blackfriars
IT is too often our duty to report bad news on the North-East jobs front as the manufacturing crisis eats away at the region's economy. What a pleasure it is to highlight the remarkable success story inspired by Teesside's magnificent steelworkers. When
BERNADETTE Taylor won a battle royal with Claire Simpson of Jarrow and Hebburn to take the senior women's race at last weekend's North Eastern Cross-Country Championships and help Darlington Harriers retain the team title. The Tynesider held the upper
A FRUSTRATED Joseph Job has no idea what the future holds for him on Teesside after realising goals don't guarantee a place in Middlesbrough's starting line-up. The Cameroon international scored one and had a hand in another to help Boro secure top spot
T AND R THEAKSTON has announced plans to increase production capacity at its brewery in Masham. The development is timed to coincide with the transfer of Theakston Best Bitter production from the Tyne Brewery at Newcastle to John Smiths at Tadcaster next
THROUGHOUT last month we were bombarded with advice on how to organise Christmas shopping, while most of us were trying to keep our heads in the sand until at least December 1. What to wear, what to buy, how to avoid panic, even how to finance the whole
POLICE investigating the killing of a County Durham businessman in Central America believe he may have known his killer. The body of Thomas Purvis, a 44-year-old security expert, was found by a friend in Costa Rica on Monday. He had been stabbed to death
HAVING tipped Boro pre-season to finish above Newcastle, I'm beginning to wish I'd had a large wager. It increasingly strikes me that the Smoggies are doing everything right, while the Geordies continue to labour under the impression that 52,000 will
Only 18 months ago, the writing was on the wall for Corus' Teesside steel plant, but yesterday's deal, which secures the site for the next decade, heralds a remarkable turnaround in fortunes. Business Correspondent Paul Willis reports. WHEN Corus dropped
POLICE are searching for a lorry involved in a three-car accident in which a woman sustained suspected fractured legs. The heavy goods vehicle, believed to have been delivering Calor Gas or hazardous chemicals, left the scene of the crash, on the B1280
CHILDREN from a primary school took to the stage this week to perform their own Christmas plays which will pay for a professional pantomime early in the New Year. Children at Bournmoor Primary School, near Chester-le-Street, invited parents and friends
A FRUSTRATED Joseph Job has no idea what the future holds for him on Teesside after realising goals don't guarantee a place in Middlesbrough's starting line-up. The Cameroon international scored one and had a hand in another to help Boro secure top spot
Little extras mean a lot so make sure the turkey trimmings you buy this year are up to scratch. COOKING the Christmas dinner is actually quite straightforward. Bung the bird in the oven, baste it occasionally and try not to forget about it once you've
A York man calmly sold drugs from the door of his home as two dead bodies lay just feet away, a court heard. Unemployed John Paul Marshall, 43, sold cannabis at the communal entrance to his Gillygate flat, in York, hours after killing Kevin Mulgrew and
NO amount of public relations spin concerning the reopening of the former Quality Fare store at Bedale under its new owner, United Co-operatives, could disguise the unfortunate reality in one case on the front line last Friday. An older shopper with only
A DRUG dealer has admitted killing two drug-users as they slept in the living-room of his city centre flat. A jury heard that John Paul Marshall, 43, bludgeoned Kevin Mulgrew and Daniel Wall to death with a heavy wooden lampstand at his home above a bakery
HAMBLETON councillors were yesterday to be recommended to turn down an application for a 60-bedroom residential care home at Leeming Bar. Tri-Care was seeking permission for the two-storey development on land south of Freemans Way, off Leeming Lane, next
NEARLY 3,000 children across the region will wake up homeless this Christmas, new figures have revealed. A shocking 2,167 children in Yorkshire-Humber, which includes North Yorkshire, and 831 children in the North-East will spend the festive period without
ON a cold and blustery day, the Green Howards' flag flew out high above the town that the regiment has called home since 1873. "We don't usually fly the flag in winter," said Paul Cooper, a former Green Howard and now an assistant at the regimental museum
A NORTH-EAST bred Charolais topped the Christmas Cracker female section at 7,800gns at Carlisle on November 26, at the breed society's autumn event. Mowbraypark Treasure from Mike and Margaret Atkinson of Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon, which stood reserve champion
A FATHER has been found guilty of attempting to bribe a witness during a police investigation into the murder of a North-East market trader. Thomas Harrison, 62, got an associate to threaten witness Rowena Frost and handed her money so she would change
PS2, Price: £104.99: PROS: A mammoth back catalogue means there is a game for every taste, lots of interesting peripherals. CONS: Getting on a bit now, expensive. IT'S ten years since Sony rocked the world of videogames with the first PlayStation. Ten
The new Home Secretary remained defiant yesterday in the face of a Law Lords ruling which outlawed his predecessor's emergency anti-terror measures. In an overwhelming condemnation of David Blunkett's Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the Law Lords
SUNDERLAND footballer John Oster spent a night in police cells following an incident outside a North-East nightclub. The 26-year-old Welsh International right midfielder, who is on loan to fellow Championship club Leeds United, was arrested with another
A VICTORIAN villa in Darlington's West End is to be converted into apartments. The council planning committee this week approved a scheme for nine apartments and the construction of a new building to contain 12 homes. Darlington Homes want to do the work
A MAN killed in a gyrocopter crash on Wednesday was confirmed yesterday as experienced flier Dave Chaplin. Mr Chaplin, 61, died when his aircraft crashed in woodland near the White Horse monument, at Kilburn, North Yorkshire at about 2pm. It had taken
A REVIEW of NHS services in Cleveland has been extended to take in the Friarage Hospital at Northallerton and others in the County Durham and Tees Valley area. Prof Ara Darzi is already looking at the viability of the University Hospital of Hartlepool
A NORTH-East businessman has proved that a man's word can go a long way in a landmark legal victory over a get-out clause in a supplier's small print. A judge upheld a claim by Derek Ashdown, of Ashdown Printing Machinery, that a telephone conversation
A SCHEME which helped promote and sell the work of artists and craftspeople from the Yorkshire Dales has ceased trading, leaving members out of pocket. Dalesmade, set up in 1992 with public funding, included a shop in the Watershed Mill centre at Settle
THE last time Sylvia ate at the Blue Bell in Bishopton a Mateus Rose bottle with a red candle in it was the very height of pub dining room sophistication. It was the early Seventies, a time when it was considered pretty avant-garde to have plastic vines
A BEDALE store re-opened last Friday following a £600,000 redevelopment at the hands of its new owner. The former Quality Fare store at Market Court was one of those bought in August by the Rochdale-based United Co-operatives from Leathleys, which had
A 31-year-old Merseyside man has been remanded in custody charged with a rape 15 years ago. Andrew Russell, of Arley Close, Prenton, the Wirral, faced one charge of rape and another of serious sexual assault when he appeared before Teesside Magistrates
GRAEME Souness cancelled Newcastle's Christmas party in Edinburgh this week and, by grinding out a 1-1 draw with Sporting Lisbon, his players last night ensured there would be no reason for the club's fans to celebrate either. The point might have earned
Father Christmas has joined in a toy library's celebrations of its achievements. Children and parents were treated to a party at the library in Marske, east Cleveland, and received presents from Santa. Since last December, membership has increased to
DARLINGTON residents are being urged to recycle their Christmas trees and cards. The borough council has set up collection points which will operate from January 5 to 14. Cards can be recycled at WH Smith and Tesco. Tree recycling points are: * South
A VILLAGE community association is offering free courses for the new year. In August, Evenwood and Ramshaw Community Association secured £5,000 from the National Lottery's Awards for All fund to pay for learning opportunities for people in Cockfield and
MORE than 150 students and staff at Darlington's Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College took part in a Cha Cha Christmas Slide to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Relief. The fancy dress theme attracted Santas, fairies, elves and walking Christmas presents
A planning inspector has rejected an appeal for a waste transfer station. Durham County Council had turned down an application for the change of use of a farm building at Tribley Farm, Hett Farm, Hell Hills, Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street. It said it
A WOMAN was punched twice in the face by a robber who then snatched her bag. Detectives are appealing for witnesses to the robbery in a car park in Billingham, Teesside, shortly before 5pm on Wednesday. The 28-year-old victim had returned to her Ford
PANTOMIME stars were spreading festive spirit among youngsters who will be spending Christmas in hospital. The cast of Peter Pan - this year's production at Darlington Civic Theatre - visited the Memorial Hospital's children's ward yesterday. Led by Cannon
WELSH Section C colt Neebro Rising Sun capped an excellent season for his North Yorkshire owner with a highly successful appearance at the recent Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Winter Fair. The three-year-old homebred chestnut colt was judged reserve
A MIDDLESBROUGH allotment transformed by youngsters has won an award. The land at North Ormesby Whitehouse Allotments has become a wildlife haventhanks to the 11 to 16-year-olds who have tended it, funded by a £2,000 grant from Groundwork. The garden
FURIOUS business owners have threatened to stop sponsoring council projects in Darlington after a long-running dispute over pay-parking intensified. Gallerina proprietors Richard Hindle and Gwen Brown are considering pulling out of sponsoring Darlington
POLICE in Darlington yesterday unveiled the kind of Christmas lights criminals do not want to see. All suspects taken to the town's main police station will now be scanned by ultra-violet strip lights searching for signs of Smart Water - a new chemical
A NOTICE of vacancy has been posted for a seat on Barnard Castle Town Council. The vacancy arises following the resignation of Councillor Anne Francis. Electors in the west ward of the town have until January 10 to request an election. The request must
SANTA Claus enjoyed stories about Christmases past yesterday when he handed out gifts to pensioners at their lunch club. He met Christine Elliott, 97, Margaret Harrison, 94, and Mahala Robson, 91, after they enjoyed roast turkey with all the trimmings
A SEVEN-week-old baby died as a result of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, an inquest heard yesterday. Ethan Midgley was taken to the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, when his mother awoke to find him lifeless in bed next to her. The child
A SCHEME to help the fight against crime in rural north-west Durham was launched yesterday. Police who cover the beat of Delves Lane, Crookhall and the east of Consett have launched the Crimepost project. Three metal post boxes have been installed at
WEAR Valley District Council has deferred a decision on whether to ballot its tenants over the future of its housing stock. The council has agreed to set up an arms length management organisation which, it says, is the best way to improve its 5,400 homes
CHARITIES have benefited from a safety record clocked up by workers at a Teesside chemical complex. Earlier this year, DuPontSA, at the Wilton site, near Redcar, achieved 3.5 million hours without a serious accident. To celebrate the achievement, the
Cleveland Hunt PC. - Dec 28: Christmas disco, Gt Broughton Village Hall, 7-10pm, names to Clare 01642 712948. Dec 28: junior and senior fun jumping rally 10am-1pm at Upsall, tel Shirley Hockney for times on 01642 723577. Dec 30: open Christmas show jumping
BUSINESS leaders and politicians across the region toasted the deal of the decade yesterday after steelmaker Corus secured the future of more than 6,000 jobs in the North-East. Corus announced an agreement that will see its Teesside operation supply a
A PLEDGE to farm in harmony with the environment has earned an award for Swaledale hill farmers, Clive and Amanda Owen. The couple manage a large flock of hefted Swaledale sheep and 35 suckler cows on remote moorland around Keld. They entered a competition
