ANOTHER finals over, another failure on penalties for England. But beneath the frustration, it's worth remembering Roy Hodgson had just a few weeks with these players to implement his tactics. Undoubtedly in the time he has had with the squad he has
AN eight-year-old boy was taken to hospital this afternoon after he was in a collision involving a car while riding his bike in Yarm Road, Darlington. He was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital but the extent of his injuries are not known
A MAN suffered severe injuries when he was crushed while unloading a container ferry. It is believed that the man was dragged for ten metres along the deck while he was working on the Bore Song ferry, which had travelled from Zeebrugge to Teesport, Teesside
AN Olympic torch bearer has visited a primary school to tell pupils about his role in the sporting event. Alan Brunksill, 65, of Spennymoor, headed to nearby Byers Green Primary School to show pupils aged four-11-years his Olympic torch. Retired nurse
A BOWLS club forced to fold due to lack of members has left a parting gift in the hope future generations will once again share its passion for the sport. Trimdon Bowls Club had been struggling to recruit new players for years and, this season
POLICE have issued descriptions of three suspects they are looking for in connection with a break-in at a chocolate shop. Thieves left empty-handed after forcing their way into Thorntons, in Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, between 1am and 2am on Thursday
Steve Pratt throws a web over the career of new Spider-Man Andrew Garfield... from bullied schoolboy to the latest crime-fighting crusader NOVEMBER 2007, a room in a London hotel. An unknown British actor is being interrogated, in the nicest
SHOCKING car crash footage has been shown to North-East teenagers to highlight the tragic results of dangerous and drunk driving. The Vehicle Education Programme at Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre also featured demonstrations of people being cut from cars
Gavin Engelbrecht and his daughter spend a week exploring the Brittany coast MY daughter Ruth has always enjoyed being taken for a drive – even if only for an aimless meander through the countryside. So when the opportunity of a dad/daughter holiday
HUNDREDS of people attended car manufacturer Nissan's first recruitment day in living memory at its Sunderland plant in the hope of securing one of the 200 available jobs. The factory is preparing for the busiest period in its 26-year history after
Titanic star Kate Winslet is a fan of Kate Van Suddese’s sea paintings. Ruth Campbell meets the petite painter who is making a big impact on the art world KATE Van Suddese’s huge oil canvases are a mass of swirling sea and crashing waves, the
Mari Hannah tells Steve Pratt how she created her North-East-set crime novels as a result of being forced to change her career HAVING her first novel published was an exciting moment for Mari Hannah, even though it was in Germany. “I was so
I’VE always been taught that mackerel is a sustainable fish but, with the mismanagement of North Sea fisheries over recent years, this may be changing. However, official guidelines are that it is still okay to eat so maybe you ought to make the most
With Poland in the spotlight as joint host of Euro 2012, we offer some experiences some of its culinary delights Ingredients Makes 120 pierogi To make the pastry 1kg (2lb 3oz) plain (all-purpose) flour 125g (4½oz) unsalted
With Poland in the spotlight as joint host of Euro 2012, we offer some experiences some of its culinary delights Ingredients Serves six Stalks and leaves of 6 beetroots 2 litres (4 pints) meat stock or bouillon (beef or chicken
Tempted by summer’s new shades? Don’t throw your old ones away, as they could be put to good use in the developing world TWO Durham venues have joined forces to launch Shade Aid, a new charity initiative fighting preventable blindness through
A NEW £4.5m general high dependency unit has opened its doors to patients at a North-East hospital. The development of the 16-bed HDU at the 1,000 bed James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough should allow medical and nursing teams to improve
FOUR former managers of a North-East bakery have bought the business out of administration and saved 85 jobs. Administrators at Tindale and Stanton in Burnopfield, County Durham, have sold the bakery as a going concern to a consortium of four former
Summer monsoon or holiday swim, make a splash without worrying about your make-up. Lisa Haynes reveals the secrets of waterproof beauty THIS summer has been a bit of a washout, but with holiday season approaching you might soon be jumping into
Milliner Joel Alexander has expanded his bespoke hat business, Quills, to include a stunning range of clothing for special occasions NORTH-EAST milliner Joel Alexander proved he’s up there with the best of them when he was asked to provide
POLICE are trying to track down relatives of a fallen colleague so they can take part in a service honouring his memory. PC Norman Garnham was an acting detective constable who had completed his shift and was actually off-duty when he was murdered in
MORE than 700 women have taken part in a hospice’s midnight walk, raising around £70,000 for the cause. The ladies gathered for St Cuthbert’s Hospice’s Midnight Walk around Aykley Heads, Durham City, late on Saturday night. The event has been run each
THERE seems to be anything and everything to be uncovered when Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs are sent to investigate a suspected cover-up of corruption involving a detective in Fife. In no time at all, Fox finds himself
PUSHING 40 and a self-confessed “runner-up” in life, the protagonist of Lionel Shriver’s novel, the disillusioned corporate lawyer Edgar Kellogg, makes the decision to chase after a job in journalism, leaving behind a promising but unfulfilling
PROBABLY the best-known image of railways in wartime is of the lines leading into the Auschwitz death camp. Christian Wolmar reveals that from “places where the Germans were keen to maintain the myth that the Jews were simply being ‘resettled in
BEFORE making his name with Discworld, the grand work of comic fantasy, Terry Pratchett wrote two science fiction novels. The long-gestating idea for another now finally comes to fruition with the help of Stephen Baxter. The Long Earth is a seemingly
A PICTURE of consumer confidence will emerge this week with updates from sectors covering restaurants, online gambling and shops. Carpetright’s annual profits could be as little as £3m tomorrow, down from £17m a year ago and £62m in better
THE GEM SHOP A little shop in Saddler Street in Durham long ago: My friend Jill and I would visit there Come rain or hail or snow. When we met up in Durham In those happy days of yore But Jill is too poorly now And we don’t go
NEW planning guidelines will help spark North-East economic growth and should be welcomed, one of the region’s business organisations has said. The North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) has urged councils to get behind the planning policy, which
Meet The Boss: David Dodd, chief executive of Darlington Building Society DAVID DODD has a bone to pick with George Osborne. The chief executive of Darlington Building Society is concerned that the Chancellor’s latest plan to hand millions
I APPLAUD Michael Gove’s proposal for the reintroduction of O Levels (Echo, June 22). Examining pupils, or should I to be politically correct and call them students, on their ability to prepare a well-reasoned, grammatically correct and structured
BRITAIN has descended into panic. Towns and cities are in tatters and it’s time to start your own survival plan. This is not the aftermath of the Government’s austerity plans – it’s actually a job vacancy. Job-seekers have been asked to apply
ALL that is missing from the comments of the Bishop Auckland MP Helen Goodman is “not me guv’nor” regarding her claims that both she and Labour are mere bystanders regarding the local job situation (Echo, June 19). Ms Goodman and her amiable,
WHILE David Cameron is absolutely correct to castigate Jimmy Carr for the comedian’s participation in the K2 tax avoidance scheme, which allows the super-rich to avoid paying an estimated £4bn a year into our economy, his selective criticism of
WELL done to CT Riley (HAS, June 19) you hit the nail on the head regarding troubled families. The ruling classes seem to think whatever their off-spring do, no matter the consequences to others, it is just high spirits and not to be punished.
ALTHOUGH official figures have shown a fall in UK unemployment of 51,000 in the three months to April 2012, this will not be a comfort for people in the North-East. Our area has sadly bucked the national trend and unemployment has risen by 8,000
THE BBC’s coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant on the Thames was a disaster, as many papers and knowledgeable people reported, let’s hope the BBC use suitably qualified people to commentate on the Olympics. I know many presenters are under
IN Northallerton recently, I saw men and boys walking around the town in German uniforms. I ask myself why? It was a slur on the men who took part in both world wars to see German uniforms in a town in the UK. Maybe the people wearing the German
ANOTHER year; another failure in a penalty shoot-out. On a night of high drama in Kiev, England’s footballers were found wanting once again. Having been second best for large periods of their Euro 2012 quarterfinal with Italy, they couldn’t really
The world’s most dynamic aerial performer is back from the brink. Liam Creedon reports on how the peregrine falcon is living among us in the heart of our toughest urban landscapes THE peregrine falcon freezes time. Or that is what it can feel like
THE North York Moors as they once were and as they are in the present is to be the theme of a “then and now” exhibition. As part of the National Park’s 60th anniversary celebrations the show is to be staged at weekends from November 24 to Janbuary
AT the end of Sunday night’s gig at the Stadium of Light, the Chili’s enigmatic bass player, Flea, delivered an impassioned plea to the fans to continue to support live music. It was rousing, almost Churchillian in its nature, and to someone standing
A MAN has been arrested in connection with a raid on a Northallerton jewellery shop earlier this month. Officers from North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire swooped on an address in The Hyde Park Road area of Leeds shortly after 11pm on Friday. A 28-year-old
THE Quakers will be called Darlington 1883 next season, the club has announced. The club has been forced to find an alternative playing name to Darlington FC by the Football Association (FA) after losing an appeal last week. Owners Darlington
JASON PLATO was not going to be denied at least one win in the Dunlop MSA Touring Car Championship at Croft, but he had to do it the hard way. The Tyneside-raised racer suffered a repeat of the bad luck that struck the MG KX Momentum Racing
CHRIS TOMLINSON admitted his performance was rusty but insisted he wouldn’t hit the panic button just yet after failing to book his Olympic place in Birmingham. Tomlinson needed a top-two finish in the long jump at the Aviva 2012 Trials and to
A PLAQUE has been unveiled in memory of a long-serving and popular councillor who served his community for almost 50 years. Alan Gibson, who died in October aged 81, was a Conservative member of Hurworth Parish Council, as well as a former member of
ORGANISERS of a community carnival that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year have urged members of the public to support the event as it faces an uncertain future. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the day of family entertainment, music
YOUNG performing arts have shown of their skills in their annual showcase event. Members of ArtSpark youth theatre and dance groups took part in their final performance at Darlington Arts Centre, which closes next month. There are nine youth theatre
THE church, in Albert Hill, was torn apart when a significant number of its congregation left earlier this year. Dozens of members of the congregation, as well as their vicar, Father Ian Grieves, left to join the Ordinariate, a structure within the
Concert plan for retiring teacher POPULAR teacher John Frankland is retiring at the end of the academic year, after 23 years as head of the music department at Hummersknott Academy. Former students are planning to stage a concert for him on
ROY Hodgson insists no amount of practice can prepare you for the trauma of a penalty shoot-out. Once again this morning, England are coming to terms with their failure from the spot. Last night's Euro 2012 quarter-final defeat to Italy
A COMMUNITY once home to five thriving churches is to lose its last one. Ferryhill Baptist Church, in the town’s Dean Bank area, will hold its final Sunday service this weekend before a farewell event next month. Members said it was sad but inevitable
WIRELESS internet is great - in theory. You just plug in your wireless router and the internet should appear on all your wireless enabled devices as if by magic. Sadly, the reality is rather different. All those walls and floors in a house provide a
The garden at Broaches Farm, Dalton, near Richmond will be open on Sunday 8th July. Open between 1:00pm and 5:00pm, admission is £3 for adults, children free. There will be plants and teas on sale. Any contributions for the plant stall or cakes
ENGLAND’S penalty shootout misery continued in Kiev last night as they crashed out of Euro 2012. After Mario Balotelli’s talk of Peter Pan, the semi-finals of a major tournament are becoming the equivalent of Never Never Land for the Three
INSOLVENCY among North- East companies rose by more than 60 per cent last month, compared with May last year, figures have shown. In contrast, the number of Yorkshire companies which failed dropped by 9.3 per cent last month compared to the
CHILDREN from the region risk being trafficked to London for sexual exploitation during the 2012 Olympic Games, a children’s charity has warned. According to Barnardo’s, anecdotal evidence shows that whenever there is a major event with what
AN investigation is continuing into the cause of a fire in an office building that needed more than 20 firefighters to bring it under control. Police are treating the blaze at Total Recycling Services, in Lingfield Way, Darlington, as suspicious
REPORTS claiming the number of carriages to be produced at Hitachi’s planned train-building factory in the region is being cut have been firmly rejected. The Department for Transport (Dft) has stamped on reports that cost-cutting will slash the
Rain-robbed Richmondshire are back in the championship hunt after winning in a hurry, making sure the weather couldn't again wreck their chances of a successful title bid. The Dalesmen, after having three of their last six matches called off and two
NORTH-EAST MPs and charities last night warned the region will be hit hard by the Prime Minister’s plans for a major welfare crackdown that would see thousands of young people stripped of housing benefit. David Cameron’s proposals include
WHEN Oliver Coatsworth was born with autism, his parents were told he would probably never be able to talk. But 11 years on, he has proved the experts wrong with his speech – and has won through to the final of a national competition designed
THE Bishop of Durham last night ruled himself out of the running to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury. The Right Reverend Justin Welby, 56, who became the fourth most senior cleric in the Church of England last September, had been tipped
THE family of a man whose body was exhumed for a DNA test a year ago have spoken of their frustration at being unable to get the results. The parents of Christopher Rochester, who died on holiday in Rhodes, Greece, in June 2000, agreed to the
EXPERTS have taken to the air and criss-crossed the region in an attempt to stop the spread of a killer tree disease. The Forestry Commission team has flown sorties over North Yorkshire and County Durham as part of wideranging measures to save
A QUAKERS fans’ group last night announced it was going to invest £40,000 in the club following a ballot of its members. Darlington Supporters’ Trust collected £50,000 during a previous crisis at the club, with £10,000 already spent helping
DEMBA Ba is growing increasingly frustrated with his representatives' attempts to tout him to alternative employers this summer, increasing hopes that he will remain at Newcastle United beyond the end of the transfer window. Ba, whose future
AIMEE Wilmott and Jemma Lowe signed off ahead of the Olympic Games in style as they were crowned national swimming champions this weekend. The North-East duo both triumphed at the British Gas ASA National Championships in Sheffield, the last
MARTIN O'Neill is set to make Carlos Cuellar his first Sunderland signing after reopening negotiations with the Spanish defender. O'Neill targeted Cuellar as a desirable free agent at the start of the summer, and discussed a possible move with
SCOTT Borthwick returns to the scene of his Durham debut this evening hoping for a similar result. In the 2008 Twenty20 match at Old Trafford the leg-spinner took three for 23 and Durham reached a target of 181 with an over to spare thanks to South African
