Basketball in association with Game Time Birthday Party's and Principul PSD. Game Time is looking for Colleges & Special needs schools to join two new basketball leagues to follow on from the success of the Schools League, which has been regarded by
Basketball in association with Game Time Birthday Parties & Decorative Concrete Solutions The Game Time Presentation Evening is Saturday 24th May at The Thistle Hotel in Middlesbrough from 7-11.30pm. Over 180 tickets have already been booked to make
THE emergency services were called to two-car crash at a roundabout in the centre of Darlington tonight. A silver Mercedes and a blue Chevrolet collided on Parkgate at 8pm. No-one was hurt in the accident, but the Chevrolet was badly damaged, and ended
A MAN has admitted stealing £3,000 in cash from his own mother. Patrick Corrigan today pleaded guilty to the theft of £3,000 from Olive Corrigan between March 13 2006 and April 27 2007. The 33-year-old, of Milburn Street, Sunderland, will be sentenced
A MAN has admitted stealing £3,000 in cash from his own mother. Patrick Corrigan today pleaded guilty to the theft of £3,000 from Olive Corrigan between March 13 2006 and April 27 2007. The 33-year-old, of Milburn Street, Sunderland, will be sentenced
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a woman died as she tried to cross a busy road. The 58-year-old pedestrian was involved in an accident on Marsh House Avenue, in Billingham, near Stockton, at 2.06pm today. The collision involved a Kawasaki motorcycle
A FAMILY has been left homeless after a three-year-old boy accidentally set their house on fire. Steph Ambler and her three sons could only stand and watch as their house, on Anthony Street, in Easington Colliery, County Durham, went up in flames. The
DRUGS with an estimated street value of £60,000 have been seized and five arrests made following a series of raids in Newcastle. Over the weekend four warrants were executed at homes in the Newbiggin Hall Estate, Brunton Park and Scotswood areas by officers
"You have to remember that this road is appreciably wider than it was 60 years ago, " says Major Ian English. He stands with his back against a tall, impenetrable hedge and looks across the lane to a stone wall, 8ft high and topped with
A FOUR-year-old boy is in hospital with serious head injuries after being struck by a car this afternoon. The youngster was using a pedestrian crossing on King Street, in Spennymoor, County Durham, when he was hit by a Vauxhall Corsa. He was taken to
A HI-TECH electronic approach to crimefighting in Darlington is helping to protect areas prone to problems and reduce offences in the town. Police and community agencies in the town are using the latest mapping software to target crime hotspots. The
THE mother of a child with a rare neurological disorder is hoping to raise funds for charity by taking part in a 10k race. Lynn Symonds, from Bedale, is looking to raise funds to support the Brain and Spine Foundation. It comes after her son Ben was
DRUG and alcohol abusers in North Yorkshire are being offered access to help with a series of mobile advice drop-in sessions. The Hambleton and Richmondshire Community Addiction Service (Harcas) has gone mobile to help victims of abuse. Harcas is being
A PHARMACIST who has given 30 years service to the same business has celebrated her achievement with some of her clients. Anita Deighton, has helped several generations of the same families living near the Rowlands Carmel pharmacy, in Cardinal Gardens
A WOMAN is hoping to raise £4,000 for charity by taking part in a bed race and a 300 mile bike ride from London to Paris. Christine Downing's husband, Nigel, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 44. And in appreciation of the support they
A PRIMARY care trust (PCT) has had its £34m debt slashed in half by the Government. North Yorkshire and York PCT had refused treatment to patients because of its massive debt. But patients were given fresh hope after the regional NHS funding body agreed
AN artist will be helping to add colour to a family fun day. Pupils from Alderman Leach Primary School and artist Carl Von Weller will create flags with mini beast designs ahead of the West Park Activity Day. Darlington Borough Council's countryside
OVER-50s are invited to a special event to discover what is on offer in their community. The event will be held at the Station in Richmond on June 3, when residents can find out about exercise, education, advice, social opportunities, volunteering, family
THE Dales will be alive with the sound of music this weekend, as the annual Swaledale Festival tunes up for its 28th anniversary year. The festival, which takes place from May 24 - June 7, was started by two local musicians in 1980 and has gone from
A LEISURE centre is offering courses in the American art of cheerleading. Stokesley Leisure Centre is running courses for both adults and children that are proving very popular. They are run by Tara Jane Jemson - a qualified coach who has represented
AN astonishing rescue by the Whitby lifeboat more than a century ago is deservedly regarded as one of the RNLI's most famous operations. It took place in 1881, when a small army of people and horses dragged the Robert Whitworth lifeboat six miles through
A CLIMATE action group has staged an event to try to encourage people to save energy. The Saving Energy Show was held in Northallerton Town Hall by Northallerton Climate Action (NCA) group recently. Exhibitors included nine regional suppliers and installers
AFRICAN drumming workshops and Indian food preparation are just some of the things that one school will be learning about this week. Mill Hill Primary School in Northallerton is holding a multi-cultural week and all 215 of its pupils are taking part.
A NEW weight management programme is being launched at a Northallerton leisure centre next month. Hambleton Leisure Centre's ten-week Weight and See course will offer participants professional support and motivation. In addition to an exercise session
SOCIAL care is to be made available to a wider spectrum of adults than before after a council relaxed its rules on who is eligible for its services. Previously only those whose needs were considered to be high were able to get access to North Yorkshire
ORGANISATIONS in North Yorkshire are backing a national initiative to reduce the £10bn of food wasted each year. UK households throw out 1.3 million yoghurts, 440,000 ready meals and 5,500 whole chickens each day as well as 5.1 million potatoes and 4.4
A RENEWED effort is being made to solve a tragic mystery that has baffled experts for more than a decade. On May 25, 1997, the skeletal remains of a well-dressed man were discovered by a gamekeeper on Thorny Grange Moor, Colsterdale, near Masham. Despite
A NORTH Yorkshire church has decided to abandon its £200,000 restoration appeal - and will instead move to a new home. All Saints, on Harlow Hill, Harrogate, was closed three years ago after problems with dry rot, wet rot and asbestos were detected
COUNCILLORS have agreed to increase the amount they spend on recycling in a district by more than £83,000. Hambleton District Council's cabinet approved the increase to the kerbside recycling scheme at a meeting today. The revised budget, which was
A teenage boy who shot an 11-year-old with an air rifle was given an Asbo for his persistent bad behaviour yesterday. Magistrates heard how Kieran Lee Wynn, 15, threatened a young girl at knife-point, punched a man and assaulted a woman with a fence-post
GUY Wilks believes he has a score to settle in the Jim Clark Rally this weekend. The Darlington rally ace, who drives for the Mitsubishi Motors UK Rally Team, was caught out on treacherously slippery wet roads last year, but is determined not to let
STRIKE action at airports in Norway has led to the cancellation of a brand new North-East service. The daily Eastern Airways service from Newcastle International Airport to Stavanger Sola Airport, which is aimed mainly at the business market, only launched
I found out the hard way that the Durham Constabulary, actually read their email. Yesterday was a day like any other day. I was in town wandering around somewhat aimlessly and had just exited Specsavers heading towards an ATM. A woman began staring at
NEWCASTLE United star Joey Barton has been jailed for six months after admitting charges of assault and affray. Barton, 25, of Foxbank Road, Widnes, was caught on CCTV knocking an unidentified man to the ground. He then straddled the man, and punched
HOSPICE fundraisers and supporters stepped out and pedalled at their leisure. The 11th Sunflower Cycle or Saunter attracted 87 riders and ramblers to the Deerness and Lanchester Valley Walks, west of Durham. Some chose to stroll eight miles
AN estate agent uncovered a cannabis farm in north Durham as he took a prospective tenant around. Richard Parker, 33, from Consett, was showing the man a stone-built property in Annfield Terrace, in Catchgate, on Saturday. He realised something
THERE were smiles all round yesterday when an oral health campaign was staged. County Durham Primary Care Trust (PCT) held the event in the Byron Place Shopping Mall, in Seaham. The PCT had organised the Brush For Health Campaign to coincide with
A TEACHER visiting from Bangladesh has started a tenday stint at a County Durham school. Kia Ainun took her first class at Durham Community Business College, in Ushaw Moor, yesterday. Her teaching will focus on Asian countries and impressions
HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds are to be spent in an effort to reduce the risk of flooding in a village. Northumbrian Water is investing £800,000 to upgrade 750m of sewer pipe and two combined sewer overflows in Leamside, near West Rainton.
A TOWN has another helper to get to grips with the prickly issue of congestion on the roads. Hartley the Hedgehog, the latest member of Hartlepool Borough Council's sustainable travel team, is urging families to become less reliant on their
A MAN with mental health problems launched a random attack on a group of female friends who were on a night out when his head started to go "dizzy", a court was told. Stephen Dodd had stopped taking medication and had been drinking when he started
NEWCASTLE have confirmed Steve Bates appointment as their permanent director of rugby. Bates, who has signed a three-year contract, took the post on an acting basis following John Fletcher's departure from Kingston Park in March. Although Newcastle
FOUR friends have had a hair raising experience for charity. Trainee solicitor Philip Masters and friends David Martin, Richard Dodds and Jimmy Atkinson had their legs waxed to raise money for Independence 4 Disability. The charity
THREE rehabilitated drug and alcohol abusers are offering expert support to help wean others off their addiction. Darren King, Lawrie Duffy and David Conlon are setting up a business, Hope North-East, to support others through the treatment process
MAKING A DIFFERENCE I'm lying here, don't pass me by. I've hopes, I believe I might climb high. There are numerous possiblities What I can become? But that's not going to happen If I'm left on my own. The only outcome is I'll appear untidy And
The Supersizers GoWartime (BBC2, 9pm); The World's Smallest Man And Me (C4, 10pm); ONE Life: Mum And Me (BBC1, 10.35pm) THERE are several moments when The Supersizers Go resembles out-takes from a bushtucker trial on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out
The column marches hungrily on the place where Hadrian - a big fish in Roman times - kept his armies after swapping the Tigris for the Tyne WE used to go to South Shields on the OK bus trip, about five and ninepence from outside Dowson's paper
Beth Thompson was the lucky winner of radio competition for a makeover with UK Hairdresser of the Year Andrew Barton. Julia Breen speaks to her about her stunning transformation. BETH Thompson has been blonde since she was 17, and she probably
The thorny issue of abortion will be thrown into the political spotlight today as the first vote in 18 years on the abortion law - which could see the legal limit reduced from 24 weeks - takes place in the House of Commons. Julia Breen
THE letter from A Baines questioning the necessity of statues (HAS, May 12) was a sad reflection on attitudes towards remembering the "greats" in our society. It has been a marvellous tradition in British society that we erect statues and memorials
I WOULD like to see in these pages those who ridicule Gordon Brown so mercilessly actually say what he and his Government are getting wrong. America is primarily to blame for the downturn in housing with our banks (outside government control)
ALED Jones calls for the return of the death penalty (HAS, May 17). How many of those wrongly convicted of murder would he tolerate being executed so that those who are guilty are also executed? Eric Gendle, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.
RECENTLY, on BBC Question Time, the subject of MPs' second home expenses was raised - £10,000 for this, £6,000 for that, along with the £400 per month that can be claimed for food, no receipts necessary, for the same residence. The reason given
RECENTLY, on BBC Question Time, the subject of MPs' second home expenses was raised - £10,000 for this, £6,000 for that, along with the £400 per month that can be claimed for food, no receipts necessary, for the same residence. The reason given
AS a socialist committed to gender equality, I favour more women actively participating in politics. However, New Labour's all-women shortlists for parliamentary and local authorities have nothing to do with making women equal to men in the political
MEDIA plaudits about the Conservatives' performance in this month's local elections and about how they are finally managing to make a breakthrough in the North are based on a superficial reading of results. Beneath the surface lies a less favourable
IWAS glad to hear Cardinal Cormac Murphy- OConnor tell Christians to be kind and courteous towards scientists. It would be nice if scientists such as Richard Dawkins would show the same consideration towards religious believers. For really there
Today is National Cricket Day. But with billionaires bankrolling the Indian Premier League and Twenty20 on a worldwide march, what does cricket's future hold? THE stiff, cold wind picks up, and a middle-aged couple hoist a red blanket over their
THE North-East, via scientists at Newcastle University, has had a very special role to play in the intense debate surrounding the creation of hybrid humananimal embryos for stem cell research. We fully acknowledge the inevitable complexities and
WITH several UK banks now having gone cap-in-hand to shareholders to raise cash, it is an opportune time to examine rights issues. These were relatively common place towards the end of the Nineties, but now a decade later, they are back - big
SHARES in British Airways (BA) fell sharply yesterday as City gloom deepened over the airline's trading outlook. Stark warnings were issued that if oil prices remained at present record levels, it could send BA's operating profit plunging from
A 16-YEAR-old girl who died after being hit by a police car was due to sit her GCSE English exam today. Hayley Adamson died in hospital after she was hit crossing a road at 11.20pm last night. Police in Newcastle have appealed for calm after violence
Continuing the story of Sergeant Charles Eagles, 79, from Sunderland, published in The Northern Echo, who landed at Normandy on D-Day Part 4: Saving Lieutenant Williams THE cornfield was triangular, and we were to advance through it
IS the message from the Bank of England - that the housing market can only be rescued with lower rates for borrowers - at last getting through to big lenders? When Nationwide BS started flagging a round of cuts on fixedrate loans over two and five
North-Eastern Tyre and Autocare has become a leader in its field, with further expansion planned. Deputy Business Editor Deborah Johnson looks at how the company shatters preconceptions of what a garage can offer. WALKING through the door of North-Eastern
MORALEE and Co has sold its second North-East pub in two weeks. The sale of The Croxdale, in County Durham, was agreed within three weeks of being put on the market, off an asking price of £695,000. "This was a freehold pub business in
A NORTH-EAST specialist business and property agency is celebrating a year of business growth by launching a nationwide expansion programme. Newcastle based Moralee and Co has recently opened offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford to
COMPANIES looking to protect their product names and brands can take advantage of improvements announced by the UK Intellectual Property Office in the procedure for applying to register trade marks online. The Intellectual Property Office, which
AN expanding IT company has teamed up with one of the world's leading technology companies. County Durham's Concept IT has become an accredited partner of Cisco - the global security and networking company. The accreditation comes at a time
IN our ongoing series highlighting the traits of successful exporters C vision, commitment, focus, research, planning, training, relationship building, quality, adaptation and energy C the next trait we come to is focus. According to the dictionary
A GRANTS scheme will help companies seeking to install renewable energy systems. The Bio-Energy Capital Grants Scheme, run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), will allocate £4m to businesses hoping to install biomass
DETAILS of a North-East company's attempt to treat waste in an environmentally-friendly way will be outlined at an international conference on Thursday. Mark Stouph, director of regulatory affairs at Durham company Premier Waste Management,
TREES covering an area half the size of a football ground could be saved each year if a telecoms company succeeds in persuading its customers to switch to paperless billing. Unicom, which is based in Manchester and has a regional headquarters
A NORTH-EAST business has made significant savings after conducting a review of its energy consumption. Cottam Brush saved nearly 30 per cent on its fuel bills after working with One NorthEast's Energy Resource Efficiency (Ere) to introduce
BY now everyone has heard of a carbon footprint, but do we know what we, and businesses, can do to reduce ours? In fact, the majority of the UK's waste strategy is led by the carbon agenda. Your local council has been targeted to reduce carbon footprint
DIVORCING couples should follow the examples of celebrities and settle splits amicably, a North-East family law expert has said. Recent figures released by the Office of National Statistics show that almost half of marriages in England and Wales
ONE of the best corporate lawyers in the North has put together the definitive dealmakers' guide for UK law firms. Robert Thompson, partner in the corporate finance department at Ward Hadaway, has edited an edition of Sinclair on Warranties and
NEW responsibilities have recently come into play for licensed premises where live or recorded music is played. Since April 6, licensees have had to comply with The Control of Noise At Work Regulations 2005, which aim to protect workers from excessive
THE Co-operative Group's clothing arm has moved into new premises in the North-East and unveiled plans to expand. Previously known as workwear and corporate clothing specialist Mandate, it has been renamed The Co-operative Clothing. Managing
ENTREPRENEUR Duncan Bannatyne opened his latest venture yesterday - a health and wellbeing spa in Darlington. Mr Bannatyne said the £800,000 Sensory Spa would form an important addition to his fitness club, in Haughton Road, Darlington, and
YORK St John University has opened the city's first business school. It was launched by Len Cruddas, chief executive officer of the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. The launch event was attended by members of the business community
A FAMILY-RUN stationery and gift store is celebrating its 150th anniversary by inviting former staff members to its party. T&G Allan is marking the anniversary on May 31 with in-store celebrations in its Morpeth, Northumberland, and Whitley
MANY young people are just as keen to go into business as they are to become rock stars, TV Dragon Duncan Bannatyne says. The entrepreneur, who has put his name to Bannatyne's Bright Sparks, to encourage young entrepreneurship, said youngsters
INTERNET company SBsquared has made a deal with the global leader in the traffic sign business to create two websites. SBsquared, in Ouseburn, on Tyneside, is producing the sites for Irish company MTS and its partner firm, Rennicks, to help it
WORKERS at one of the world's biggest tea manufacturers have new qualifications after a partnership was formed with Middlesbrough College. Tetley - which employs more than 600 people at a factory in Eaglescliffe, on Teesside, and a depot in
MANUFACTURING firms have sharply increased the prices of their goods in a bid to tackle the strongest cost pressures for 20 years, according to a new survey. The CBI said that despite the difficult climate, jobs were being created, especially
ALMOST a third of small businesses in the North-East have no business insurance, new research has found. A survey by Insurantz.com has discovered that 29 per cent of the region's businesses employing 50 people or less have no cover. Ten per cent
BRITISH Energy has said it received a "range of proposals" from several parties wishing to make a full offer for the nuclear power firm. The group, which owns Hartlepool Power Station, did not disclose the names of the companies involved, but
HENDERSON Insurance Brokers has recruited David Garland as an associate director. Mr Garland will work in the rapidly-growing commercial team at Henderson in the company's new offices in Newcastle. The company said: "David's 20 years of experience
SPORTS fashion retailer Bite is opening its first store outside Scotland in the Gateshead MetroCentre. The outlet is expected to be opened in the middle of next month and £150,000 will be invested by the company, creating about ten jobs. Mark McGowan
BUSINESSES that have contributed to a town's regeneration have been commended for their efforts. A record 119 entries were received for Hartlepool's third annual business awards, with 24 being shortlisted. Eight winners were selected. Steel
BUSINESSES across the North- East have a few weeks left to get involved with a James Bondthemed charity ball. The ball, which will raise money for Diabetes UK, has attracted support from Tait Walker, NatWest and AA Secretarial Services but there
BARRATT Developments has said it expects its number of sites to decline as it responds to a "significant" deterioration in market conditions. The Newcastle group said projects were only being started on a highly selective basis and where it
A £50M INDUSTRIAL park planned for Darlington will help change the face of employment in the town, the project's developer said last night. Plans have been drawn up to transform a derelict area of land in the town's Faverdale area into a 1.2
FOUR hundred North-East jobs are expected to go after the biggest US bank lost billions of pounds on sub-prime mortgages. Citigroup, which announced last month that 9,000 jobs would go worldwide in its latest round of job cuts, announced yesterday
LIGHT The Fire is a watertight selection in the EBF/Emil Adam Maiden Stakes at Leicester. Brian Meehan's charge was set a near-insurmountable task on his debut in a white-hot juvenile race at Ascot. The 95,000-guineas purchase turned in a highly
DURHAM are banking on Yorkshire to help them into the Friends Provident Trophy quarter- finals. If both teams win their remaining group games Yorkshire will finish top and Durham will join them in the last eight of the competition they won last
TEEING off in a star-studded field at Wentworth on Thursday, along with Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh, will be a local golfer intent on making the most of his opportunity. While North East trio Graeme Storm, Kenneth Ferrie and Rob Dinwiddie
YORKSHIRE'S new overseas player Rana Naved-ul-Hasan says he wants to add to his four-day medal tally with his new county. The Pakistani paceman is in line to make his debut in tomorrow's County Championship clash with Surrey at the Oval. He has
THE FA Cup Final Escape Committee (and Scotch Pie Fest) held its annual meeting on Saturday at Camelon, which should not be confused with Camelot but which - wilfully, incorrigibly - is. Camelot, it will be recalled, was the fabulous castle
GARETH SOUTHGATE wants to keep Adam Johnson at Middlesbrough, labelling the young England prospect a very special talent' worth holding on to. Everton and Tottenham are long-term admirers of the tricky left-winger and Johnson is known to have
EDWIN Van der Sar thought he was giving up nights of European glory when he moved to England. The veteran Dutchman could complete an amazing 13-year gap between Champions League wins when he faces Chelsea tomorrow. Now firmly established as
Our front page yesterday was dominated by a picture of a Darlington fan sobbing after the penalty shoot-out defeat at Rochdale. Echo SPORT tracked down 21-year-old Garry Mann who, as he explains, is still stunned Darlington are out of the play-offs
DAYS after Darlington's day of destiny ended in misery, half of the squad this week discover their own fate as manager Dave Penney decides which of his players have no further role to play. Clark Keltie, Neil Wainwright and Julian Joachim are
GALATASARAY president Adnan Polat has told Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan he can sign Arda Turan tomorrow if he tables a formal bid of around £13m. Polat has held a number of preliminary discussions with senior Newcastle representatives as he attempts
MANCHESTER United central defender Nemanja Vidic expects a battle every time he faces English opposition whether at home or in European competition. Next up are league rivals Chelsea and the formidable Didier Drogba tomorrow in the Champions
A SCHOOL classroom in the region could achieve iconic status in the music world, akin to The Beatles' Abbey Road crossing. For Room 51 at St Bede's School, in Lanchester, County Durham, is where an aspiring group of sixth-formers first began
THE region's unelected public bodies spent £664.8m of taxpayers' money last year, a survey has revealed. Regional development agencies Yorkshire Forward and One NorthEast topped the region's figures with outgoings of £339.5m and £306m a year respectively
A FIVE-HEADED tulip has been grown by a North-East gardener. Barry Gillatt, 61, says he has not seen anything like it in 20 years of gardening. The retired welder planted the flowers in October last year and could not believe his eyes when
POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a woman who has gone missing from hospital. Christine Collins, a 72-year-old, who is described as vulnerable, was last seen leaving the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, at 3.50pm on
A MARTIAL arts club from the North-East impressed judges on a television talent show with a high risk, high-energy act. Chungdokwan Taekwondo, in County Durham, performed a thrilling two-minute routine on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show. The club's
ITS a room with a view and one fit for a king. Indeed, King James I stayed here for a night on his way to London to take up the English throne more than 400 years ago C and he would have gazed up at the same ornate ceiling. Now, a lucky bidder
FAMILIES are being encouraged to leave their cars at home so more pupils walk to school. More than 140 schools in County Durham will take part in National Walk to School Week, the theme of which is reducing noise pollution. During the week of
A MAN has narrowly avoided prison after crashing his car following a high speed, booze-fuelled police chase. Martin Collins was arrested after he wrote off his car while trying to avoid being pulled over by the police in February. The 20-year-old
SCHOOL standards have "stalled" with one in five children leaving primary education unable to read, write and add up properly, Ofsted warned yesterday. The education watchdog dismissed claims by ministers that standards are rising and warned that
A SOLDIER responsible for training Army recruits has been suspended after allegations that he ordered 14 of them into a troop shelter before throwing in a live hand grenade. The officer, from 1 Rifles at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, is
RECORD levels of benefit fraud have been detected by a Government watchdog but local authorities are failing to tackle the problem, according to a report published today. The National Fraud Initiative (NFI), which is carried out every two years
A BAWDY, brash and brassy stage experience returns to the North-East later this month. The Midnight Circus and Velvet Rose Burlesque Revue gives theatregoers two spectacular and colourful shows for the price of one. Part one features a mix of
FOUR members of the same family yesterday admitted plotting to sabotage a rape trial by putting pressure on the victim to retract her statement. Kenneth Yorke was in prison on remand awaiting trial when he tried to get his relatives to talk the
MODELS of a welder and a puddler, symbolising a region's industrial heritage, have been unveiled. The larger-than-lifesize figures have been installed on the verge by the South Tees Business Centre, at the junction of Normanby Road, in South Bank
MPs last night defied stark Church warnings against "Frankenstein science" to overwhelmingly back laws offering hope to sufferers from diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and cystic fibrosis. They voted to allow the use of part-human,
THE iconic North-East Likely Lads characters of Terry Collier and Bob Ferris will take to the stage for the first time next month in a specially-written version of the Newcastle-based Seventies comedy.Rehearsals for the production of
Chelsea coach Avram Grant insists his entire squad should take a bow for a season that has exceeded all expectations. Grant will send his side out to face Manchester United in the club's first Champions League final in Moscow tomorrow in the belief that
A MARTIAL arts club from the North-East impressed judges on a television talent show with a high risk, high-energy act. Chungdokwan Taekwondo, in County Durham, performed a thrilling two-minute routine on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show. The club's demonstration
A NORTH-EAST surgeon who runs one of the best joint replacement units in the country has been accused of lacking basic surgical skills.Mr Shankar Kashyap, the orthopaedic surgeon in charge of a highly-regarded unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in
Michael Vaughan jumped to the defence of his bowling unit after England's Lord's draw hoodoo continued. The first npower Test stalemate against New Zealand was the fifth such finish in a row at the famous old ground as once again England failed to dismiss
A TEENAGER who killed his two young sisters when he set fire to his family home has been locked up indefinitely after a judge branded him a danger to society.Shane Spence, 18, was given an indeterminate sentence after he was found guilty by a jury at
THERE are new fears for the future of a North-East river crossing that has been closed because of flood problems. Durham County Council highway engineers are asking for a meeting with Stanhope Parish Council and the Environment Agency
AFTER witnessing his dream of leading Darlington to Wembley evaporate in the Lancashire air on Saturday, chairman George Houghton will take steps to ensure the club's future remains in a healthy state this week.Houghton, while revealing an intention to
POLICE have released an e-fit image of a man who tried to abduct a child walking home from school.The man tried to trick an 11-year-old boy into getting into his car, claiming the boy's mother had asked him to collect him.The boy refused, saying his mother
