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

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.

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Dispute that left society scarred

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.

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Women, children and fit young men first

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.

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A sleepy village by the Tees with links to Bannockburn

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.

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Birthday joy for engine maker

10:49am Wednesday 24th February 2010

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

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Durham Lions celebrate 40 years of helping

3:20pm Friday 12th February 2010

A CHARITABLE group is celebrating its 40th birthday.

£650,000 bridge keeps rail heritage on track

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.

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Pile Hitler!

8:35am Monday 1st February 2010

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

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