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‘We have to stem this tide’

‘We have to stem this tide’

12:29pm Thursday 9th July 2009

With the future of steelmaking on Teesside shrouded in uncertainty, questions over the future of the £10bn chemical industry were raised last night after the closure of two key plants. Deborah Johnson reports.

Evening stars

Enthusiasts at their Mutual Improvement Class

12:36pm Thursday 9th July 2009

UNNAMED but by no means anonymous, engine No 20 provided a sidings sideshow last Friday evening for those with a one-track mind.

It's too late - after all these years

12:32pm Thursday 9th July 2009

SHOULD we be happy when the Government finally comes up with the correct policy – or furious that, with the General Election clock ticking, it is now too late to implement it?

Getting it in the neck from granny

Getting it in the neck from granny

12:44pm Thursday 9th July 2009

THE 17-year-old was due to do work experience the other week. William was lucky enough to land a journalistic placement in Northern Ireland and had arranged to stay with his auntie.

Company exposure

NAKED ETHICS: The majority of staff removed their clothes for Naked Friday

12:46pm Thursday 9th July 2009

STAFF at Newcastle marketing and advertising agency onebestway were surprised when boss Mike Owen told them about the company’s new bonding scheme. They were going to build up team spirit by removing their clothes.

A fight for survival

12:31pm Thursday 9th July 2009

impending closures of the Dow and Croda chemical plants on Teesside is terrible news for the 200 employees directly affected and our thoughts are with them.

Talk unearths a long-lost cousin

WORTHWHILE: Ray Thompson at Fawcett’s grave

12:40pm Thursday 9th July 2009

WE wrote on June 4 about the remarkable James Fawcett (1862-1942) from Satley, near Tow Law.

Film not big enough to contain hundreds of years of village tales

VIEW FROM ON HIGH: The village of Aycliffe seen from the top of 12th Century St Andrew’s Church’s 85ft tower in 1954

11:05am Wednesday 8th July 2009

Brimming over with history, the village of Aycliffe has too many tales to tell. Chris Lloyd savours a few and passes another milestone in his life

‘We’re not making babies’

INFERTILITY BREAKTHROUGH: Professor Karim Nayernia,  of Newcastle University, who has developed a technique to create human sperm using embryonic stem cells

10:16am Wednesday 8th July 2009

The Price of success

10:10am Wednesday 8th July 2009

WHEN Sean Price became Chief Constable of Cleveland six years ago, he inherited a force in crisis.


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