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High-flier's success a feather in the cap for pigeon fanciers

NEARLY A KING: The full advertisement from the 1914 Homing Pigeon Annual, showing the Prince of Rome

2:27pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

This week, Memories recounts the adventures of arguably the region’s most famous homing pigeon and revisits the day Tudhoe received a less welcome airborne visitor.

Dispute that left society scarred

TROUBLED TIMES: Ex-miner and author David Douglass. Inset, his book, Ghost Dancers, recalling the Miners’ Strike and examining its legacy

11:45am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

The Miners' Strike came to an end on March 3, 1985. Twenty five years on, Mark Summers meets David Douglass, a miner and author who has recorded how he felt returning to the coalface after the year-long dispute.

Women, children and fit young men first

QUICK SINKER: The Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat during the First World War and sank in only 18 minutes.

10:32am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

WOMEN and children came first on the Titanic but not on the Lusitania – where selfish survival instincts took over after the ship was torpedoed by a German Uboat, research has shown.

A sleepy village by the Tees with links to Bannockburn

DROPS OF THE WHITE STUFF: Snowdrops on the village green in Stapleton, on the outskirts of Darlington

12:05pm Wednesday 24th February 2010

Stapleton is a village with history, heritage and humps. The Way to the Stars is a film with Blenheims, Bedale and a bloke called Boston. Echo Memories looks at them both and divides the rest of its time among mathematicians.

Birthday joy for engine maker

BIG DAY: Reg Moses celebrates his 100th birthday

10:49am Wednesday 24th February 2010

A RAILWAYMAN who helped build a top-secret, but ultimately unsuccessful, steam engine has celebrated his 100th birthday.

Durham Lions celebrate 40 years of helping

FELLOW MEMBERS: City of Durham Lions past president Keith Vear, president David Leigh and publicity officer Peter Oakley.

3:20pm Friday 12th February 2010

A CHARITABLE group is celebrating its 40th birthday.

£650,000 bridge keeps rail heritage on track

SPANNING YEARS: The new bridge is lowered into place on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, below, between Goathland and Grosmont, after the original bridge was removed after 145 years of service

9:20am Friday 12th February 2010

A £650,000 project to replace a 145-year-old bridge on a popular tourist railway took a major step forward yesterday.

Railways bucking the trend with increase in passengers

8:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

IT may have been financial doom and gloom for many organisations last year, but one has bucked the trend.

Pile Hitler!

discovery: museum assistant Susan Langridge with the carpet fragment from Hitler’s Berlin bunker

8:35am Monday 1st February 2010

Fragment of carpet from Adolf Hitler’s bunker found in Green Howards regimental archives.

Heritage railway to resume services after 60-year delay

9:58am Thursday 28th January 2010

DAILY passenger services are returning to a North-East heritage line this summer, nearly 60 years after they were withdrawn.



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