A COACH driver has been hailed a hero after his quick reactions prevented a head-on collision with an overturned lorry. Thirteen people, including two with serious injuries, were taken to hospital following the accident on the A1 in Cambridgeshire
CAMPAIGNERS fighting for a theatre are set to march through the town to show their anger towards council bosses. Earthbeat, which is a theatre group for adults with learning difficulties, intend to continue their battle with Redcar and Cleveland
NEW medical equipment has been bought for a 34-year-old horse with cancer after a donation from a pet insurance company. Petplan has given £500 to the Ark on the Edge animal sanctuary in Woodland, County Durham, to buy a new tracheotomy tube for
A PREGNANT woman narrowly avoided being jailed after admitting stealing £15,000 from her aunt. Lisa Philips, who is due to give birth in December, was given a four-month suspended sentence when she appeared in Teesside Crown Court. The 36-year-old
Durham Wildcats secured their second BBL Campaign win of the 13/14 season after making the long journey south, to defeat Surrey on their home court 79-100. The Wildcats started where they left off following an emphatic win against the London Lions last
MORE than 3,500 rail enthusiasts are estimated to have visited a model railway exhibition held at a County Durham museum this weekend. There were 20 layouts for visitors to enjoy at the annual Shildon Model Railway Club display held at Locomotion
SHOPPERS on Stockton High Street are being asked to tell thespians about happy moments of their life as part of a theatre project. Leeds-based theatre company, Invisible Flock, have set up shop in a disused building on 142, High Street, Stockton
MEMBERS of the public have the chance to get involved in Teesside’s biggest multi-cultural event. The Middlesbrough Mela Association is looking for new committee members, including teenagers aged 16 to 18, to help out. The association’s annual
A NUMBER of rural roads in Hartlepool are to be temporarily closed to traffic whilst resurfacing work is carried out. The work which is part of Hartlepool Borough Council’s highways maintenance programme, will involve five separate sections of
A MAN was taken to hospital after being stabbed in the leg in the early hours of the morning. The 24-year-old was found with stab wounds to his leg at about 3.30am on Saturday, October 12, in Forber Road, Saltersgill, Middlesbrough. He was
FOUR men have now been charged following a large scale-disturbance in which armed men attacked a house. Police were called to Warwick Road in Guisborough on Monday, October 7 following reports that two car-loads of men had smashed up the home and
A HAIRDRESSING firefighter has given a grand boost to an appeal for a North-East youngster battling a rare form of cancer. Ken Ball, a district manager for Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service at the brigade’s Consett fire station, handed
VISITORS flooded into a North Yorkshire town as the streets filled with 1940s glamour for its Wartime Weekend. Pickering’s three-day wartime festival draws thousands of tourists dressed in military uniforms and forties clothing into the town every
A SCRAP dealer who teamed up with the police in the fight against metal thieves fears new government legislation could ruin his livelihood. Registered metal dealer Patrick Dowd collects scrap around the Bishop Auckland area and worked with Durham
A MUSIC festival called mimaLIVE#3 will be held at Middlesbrough art gallery, Mima on Saturday, October 26. Bands from across Teesside will perform and there will also be screenings of footage of the area’s industrial past and readings from North-East
A WOMAN aged 63 was assaulted in Sunderland’s Mowbray Park between 3.20pm and 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon (October 12). The woman suffered a cut to her eye and bruising but did not receive hospital treatment. A 15-year-old boy also suffered slight
MUSICAL acts from across the country helped a Teesside cancer charity raise £27,134 for new new equipment to help patients. The Blow Monkeys were joined by Black, Nizlopi and a host of bands and artists to put on Music v Cancer’s second ever Big
TALENTED musicians from across the region united in their love of song to help raise funds for hospices and palliative care across the North-East. Dozens of singers from Darlington Sing Community Choir, The Hadrian Singers from Haltwhistle, Morpeth
A TEESSIDER has been announced as the North-East regional winner of the Sound Barrier Star Awards for overcoming his disability. Scott Garthwaite, 33, a trained chef and TV presenter from Hartlepool who now lives in Billingham, was given with the
A MAN was attacked with a meat cleaver in a pub car park The incident happened at 4.30pm yesterday (Saturday, October 12) when several men assaulted another man outside the Bay Horse in Gateshead. The 21-year-old suffered a five inch laceration
BEST feet and paws were put forward as dog owners and their pets took part in a sponsored walk. More than 100 dogs of all shapes and sizes – and their human companions – followed one-and-a-half mile or three-mile routes through Houghall Woods on
A SOLO cyclist has just completed an incredible six-month bike ride which took him through 13 countries, from one end of Africa to the other. Jack White, 28, from Barnard Castle, set off from beneath the pyramids of Cairo in April this year and
AN 18-year-old woman was raped in a city centre alley in the early hours. The incident is believed to have happened in Wilson’s Court, an alleyway from the Groat Market to Pudding Chare in Newcastle, between 2am and 2.30am this morning (Sunday
LIFE-SAVING hospital equipment has been unveiled after a North-East man helped raise thousands of pounds in his sister’s memory. Claire Gardiner, from Heighington, near Darlington, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December after she lost the
DURHAM Cathedral started a new series of Show and Tell events on Saturday (October 12) with a session devoted to early mathematical books. Its collection of books and manuscripts includes Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
FORMER Middlesbrough captain Matthew Bates has signed a three-month deal with League One Bradford City. Bates was released by Boro around 18 months ago after suffering five separate cruciate ligament injuries during his time with the Teessiders
BUSINESS leaders will swap comfortable beds for a night living rough to highlight the plight of the region’s homeless. Up to 60 CEOs and directors will camp out in sleeping bags on Thursday night (October 17) at Newcastle United’s St James’ Park
THE North-East’s biggest scout adventure weekend has been held in Durham City this weekend. More than 1,200 scouts and explorer scouts aged ten to 18 spent three days at Moor House Adventure Centre, near West Rainton for Durham Scouts’ annual Confido
A COUPLE celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a gruelling charity bike ride from London to Paris. Mark and Lucy Herkes, of Chester-le-Street, pedalled four days to raise over £3,000 for the eating disorder charity Beat. Despite suffering
A FOOTBALL club charity’s coffers could be boosted by more than £12,000. Sunderland’s Foundation of Light, which supports more than 42,000 North-East families and youngsters every year, is getting a sizeable donation following a day of fundraising
A THEATRE group is going on a sentimental, journey through four decades of pop music. Astravaganza Entertainment, based in Chester-le-Street, is staging Time Of Our Lives – with music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s – in the town’s Park View
A MILITARY wives choir serenaded shoppers at a Darlington supermarket this weekend. Members of the Military Wives Affiliates Girlfriends and Servicewomen (Wags) Choir, from Catterick Garrison, sang to shoppers at Sainsbury’s in Victoria Road, Darlington
A HOUSING association has raised £1,350 for the homelessness charity Centrepoint. East Durham Homes staff did things including dress down days, sponsored walks, tombolas, raffles, cake sales and quizzes. Area Manager for Centrepoint, Jennifer
A YOUTH project has recruited two apprentices to help with its work. The Activity Den, at Tanfield Lea, near Stanley, provides activities for children and young people including The Woodcraft Folk, Rock the Den – a music project - and, three youth
A BUDGET hotel chain is asking council officials to help fund a new development in Chester-le-Street. Travelodge has written to Durham County Council proposing an “innovative new development partnership” to finance the construction of a hotel in
Age UK County Durham are running a new Healthy Horizons Line Dancing Class at the Belle Vue Leisure Centre, Consett, on Fridays between 1 and 2.30pm. For further details call the centre on (01207) 218151. Church music: Blackhill Baptist Church
An outline planning application seeking permission to build four houses on land east of Dairy Houses, Littlethorpe, Easington, has been submitted to Durham County Council. Bigger centre: A planning application has been lodged with Durham County
Durham Citizens Advice Bureau will hold an outreach advice session at West Rainton Jubilee Hall on Thursday (October 17) from 12.30 to 1.30pm. No appointment is needed.
NORTH Yorkshire Police have arrested a man on suspicion of being involved in a burglary, as they crack down on people travelling to the county to commit crime. The man from Redcar, east Cleveland, was arrested by officers on patrol in Scarborough
Club talk: Bill Saunders will give a talk called The Life and Work of Ralph Hedley when Sacriston Everyman’s Club meets on Tuesday October 22 at 7.30pm in St John’s Court, Front Street, Sacriston. The club meets weekly and new members are welcome.
TICKETS are on sale for one of the biggest touring car events in the North-East. Discounted tickets are available for the Dunlop British Touring Car Championship, which will be held at Croft Circuit, near Darlington, on Saturday and Sunday, June
A TELEPHONE befriending scheme for elderly and isolated people is celebrating a successful first year. Silver Talk provides regular calls to people who otherwise have little contact with the outside world. It was started by Derwentside Homes
A SHARP rise in the theft of alcohol in Chester-le-Street is being tackled by police. About half of all recorded shoplifting offences in the town over the last year involve drink. Police are now stepping up patrols and working with shop managers
CHILD RESCUE: Firefighters broke into a car to rescue a two-year-old who had been accidentally locked inside on Edward Street in Bishop Auckland. One appliance from Bishop Auckland Fire Station attended the scene at about 3pm on Saturday, and used
A MAN ended up with a beating more severe than the one he dished out to a friend who he believed had tried to kiss his girlfriend at a barbeque. Thomas Chapman punched his victim in the face and head and also kicked him in the chest as he lay on
THE issues faced by young people in the North-East were debated at a regional youth parliament event this weekend. Around 60 youngsters from across the region, aged between 11 and 18, attended the event at Rise Carr College, in Darlington, where
SINGING enthusiasts packed into a church yesterday (Saturday, October 12) to join a North-East choir as they rehearsed one of the greatest choral works ever written. About 120 people from across the region and further afield took part in a come-and-sing
AN X Factor star’s former teachers are backing her to win the show. Abi Alton, 19, from Guisborough, studied for her A Levels in the town’s Prior Pursglove College between 2010 and 2012, achieving an A in English language, B in geography and C
HORTICULTURISTS in towns and villages across the region won some of the leading Britain in Bloom awards at the weekend. Stockton won gold and came joint top of all the entrants in the City category at the award ceremony on Saturday, October 12.
A WOMAN was left shaken after a man tried to snatch her handbag while she walked home alone. The woman was approached by two young men while she walked home alone in Gladstone Street, near the junction with Greenbank Road, in Darlington, on Friday
THE Speaker of the House of Commons has urged voters to use their voice to influence Government policy by having their say on parliamentary select committees. On a whistle-stop visit to the region The Rt Hon John Bercow MP said much of the best
TOM CATTERICK spared Newcastle Falcons' blushes as his last-gasp penalty secured a 13-12 win over Bucharest Wolves in the opening round of matches in this season's Amlin Challenge Cup. Despite facing a representative side made up of players from
Shildon strengthened their status as the highest scorers in the first division with a 7-0 win over bottom club Billingham Town on Saturday, but manager Gary Forrest was more pleased with a clean sheet. The Railwaymen top the table with 42 goals
Marske United manager Ted Watts revealed that matchwinning hero Andy Jennings asked to be substituted before he scored a dramatic winner against Halesowen on Saturday. Marske retained their unbeaten record in sensational fashion and are through
Good Morning to my lovely Readers. I hope you're all keeping well and as they weather turns colder, keeping yourselves wrapped up warm. As I type this blog, I have the lovely smell of Chilli wafting in from the kitchen and it really does smell divine
COLLISION investigators are trying to piece together why a coach carrying North-East party-goers had to avoid an overturned lorry on a busy road. Forty-two Carphone Warehouse employees were heading back to Newcastle when they were involved in the
GENEROUS gun owners have raised thousands of pounds for Help For Heroes at a charity shooting day. The event was held at the Spennymoor and District Clay Pigeon Gun Club based at West House Farm in Fishburn today (October 13). Organiser Phil
A RIDER in a charity cycle event which took place across County Durham last weekend has thanked residents for their patience and apologised for litter dropped by participants. The Marie Curie Cancer Care Etape Pennines 2013 ride saw more than 1,000
WESTGATE JAZZ: An evening of jazz will be held in Westgate Village Hall on Sunday, October 20, at 8pm. Ian Millar and Dominic Spencer will play old standards, improvisations and original compositions on saxophone and piano. Tickets are £8 from Peter
A LEISURE boss, saddle fitter and security guard are among those vying to become Crook’s new county councillor. Six candidates have put themselves forward for the vacancy on Durham County Council left by the death of Geoff Mowbray in August.
PENNINE EXHIBITION: The Pennine Evolutions Exhibition, which features the work of seven artists, will run at Killhope Lead Mining Museum in Weardale, County Durham, until Sunday, November 3. The museum is open from 10.30am to 5pm. COMEDY CLUB:
A GROUP whose aim is to look after the River Wear and all its tributaries has been given a vote of confidence by a water chief. Jerry Gallop, the national manager for the DEFRA Catchment Restoration Fund at the Environment Agency said he was very
