STUART HALL got his wish of winning the Lonsdale Belt permanently with a commanding victory over John Donnelly on Wearside tonight. Darlington's Hall fought a patient bout but his class shone through eventually, knocking his Liverpudlian opponent down
Darlington recorded a comfortable 3-1 victory at home to Bath City today and they got off to a flying start by scoring inside the first minute. Darlington recorded a comfortable 3-1 victory at home to Bath City today and they got off to a flying
ON another cloudless day at the Rose Bowl, Durham had cause for deep gloom when Steve Harmison and Mark Stoneman were both injured today. The return of last season’s jinx was not quite as serious as first feared as an X-ray on Harmison’s left forearm
The Bottom House car park has finally been re-surfaced and what a cracking job it looks. Keith Redfern and his team put the new tarmac down earlier this week so walking across it won’t be so much of an assault course anymore. Let’s face it; the old
It will seem very strange for The Northern Echo to leave Priestgate, which has been the paper's home since the first copy was published on January 1 1870. Great editors such as William Stead and Harold Evans have guided the paper from the Darlington
A dogged Middlesbrough side were involved in a typical smash and grab contest at Bramall Lane which surely goes some way to securing the club's Championship status for yet another season. It looked as if Boro were going to have to settle for a share
CONCERNS are growing on Wearside after Sunderland's winless run extended to eight matches with another sorry defeat against revitalised West Bromwich Albion. Boos and jeers greeted the final whistle at the Stadium of Light – after nearly 40,000
HARTLEPOOL United beat Yeovil for the third time this season, with a comfortable win at Victoria Park. After victory in League One at Huish Park in Ausust and knocking the Glovers out of the FA Cup, Pools made it a straight-forward triple. The
BEN Stokes, the one batsman to miss the boat as Durham amassed 473, rode to the rescue with the ball as he took two wickets to reduce Hampshire to 171 for four at tea on the second day. As Durham awaited the results of an X-ray on Steve Harmison’s suspected
DETECTIVES have admitted frustration at not having found the masked men who robbed a County Durham racehorse trainer and his wife of £100,000 a year ago. It will be 12 months on Monday since an armed duo burst into Howard Johnson’s farmhouse
Highly-rated defender Dan Burn is not in the Darlington starting line-up against Bath City today amid speculation Everton have bid for his services.Highly-rated defender Dan Burn is not in the Darlington starting line-up against Bath City today amid speculation
Middlesbrough manager Tony Mowbray made three changes to the side which drew 3-3 with Leicester City last weekend.Boro skipper, Matthew Bates, returned for the first time since limping off at Crystal Palace on February 5. Stephen McManus also started
AFTER the perfect opening day Durham’s big hope was that Steve Harmison would come out on full throttle and make swift inroads into the Hampshire batting. But the reality was somewhat different. He initially did not emerge when Durham took the field
LEADING scorer Antony Sweeney and Ritchie Humphreys return to the Hartlepool United side for the home game with Yeovil. Sweeney, back from a foot injury, replaces the suspended Gary Liddle in midfield, with Humphreys in for Colin Larkin,
CATHOLIC leaders are hopeful free transport to faith schools can be saved, following talks with council chiefs. A delegation including a friend of former Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with Durham County Council leader Simon Henig yesterday
THE future of a leading theatre is “very bright” – despite its director having walked out saying it was in limbo – the venue’s boss says. Neil Hillier, Durham County Council’s strategic manager of heritage and culture, said that while no decision
A BESOTTED lover who controlled his partner through fear and violence has been jailed, after trying to suffocate her with a pillow. Robert Peter Holliday was jailed for two years and eight months at Durham Crown Court yesterday, with Judge Brian
Former Blackburn striker Graham Fenton has quit as assistant manager of North Shields. Fenton, who enjoyed a sparkling playing career in the Premiership, joined Shields two seasons ago as player-coach to manager Anthony Woodhouse. However, the club
WITHIN days of taking over prison healthcare in the region, a private firm has confirmed there are expected to be significant job losses. In a document seen by The Northern Echo, Care UK, the large private healthcare company recently awarded a
A BIG increase in the number of operations will result if the North-East’s only child heart unit survives a round of closures, The Northern Echo can reveal. Professor Martin Elliott, one of the UK’s leading child heart surgeons, said a big expansion
THE owner of the Cornmill shopping complex, in Darlington, confirmed last night that it had agreed terms to buy The Northern Echo’s town centre building. In a move that could pave the way for an expansion of the town’s largest shopping centre
A DEVASTATED mother spoke of the tragic waste of her son’s life – killed at the hands of a drunken friend days after proudly telling his family he was to become a dad. The family of Steven Corbett, 27, spoke out after Keith Ramshaw was sentenced
COMMUNITIES secretary Eric Pickles has launched a consultation to scrap the requirement for planning consents to convert offices into residential property. The Government claims that if all the long-term office space currently available was converted
AN ELECTRONICS firm that was set up by a former County Durham mineworker has won a deal that will support the spread of democracy in Africa. Specialist teams from NTE Ltd of Easington are jetting off to Nigeria and Namibia where they will install microphone
A FOOTBALL chairman has demanded the local council provides “something concrete” to help his club overcome its latest crisis. Darlington FC chairman Raj Singh has used his programme notes for today’s fixture to urge Darlington Borough Council
A JUDGE has called for improvements to a road after he heard how a passenger was killed when a driver performed a dangerous U-turn to cross the carriageway. Mobeen Hussain’s car was hit by another and his cousin’s husband, Mohamad Mughal, was
