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Step closer to sunbeds ban for young

6:30am Saturday 13th March 2010

AN attempt to protect teenagers against skin cancer by banning them from tanning salons moved a significant step closer to becoming law yesterday.

Tourist centre move is "madness"

6:30am Saturday 13th March 2010

A COUNCIL has been branded “absolutely mad” for proposing to move a tourist information centre – just as the season gets under way.

Bid for £50,000 grant rejected

6:30am Saturday 13th March 2010

A CONTROVERSIAL £50,000 grant application that was criticised by some members of a community has been rejected by officials.

Workers jailed for setting fire to house

LOCKED UP: Kevin McGill

8:06am Saturday 13th March 2010

TWO moonlighting workmen who set fire to a house to cover up their lack of progress on a contract job have been locked up for three years.

Mother’s Day will be so special

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE: Joanne Walters with children Thomas, six weeks, and Joshua, two. Ms Walters spent nearly a month on a ventilator in intenstive care fighting double pneumonia and kidney failure after being struck down by swine flu

8:09am Saturday 13th March 2010

A MOTHER-TO-BE who “came back from the dead” after being struck down by swine flu is preparing to celebrate Mother’s Day with the baby son she feared she would never see.

Page 3 Peta is top-off the class

PRETTY CLEVER: Peta Todd at the university last night

8:15am Saturday 13th March 2010

A PAGE 3 model showed off her brains last night as she argued the case for her chosen profession.

Terraced shop collapses into town centre street

DEVASTATION: A passer-by pauses to survey the damage in South Terrace, Seaham, yesterday

8:19am Saturday 13th March 2010

A TERRACED shop that partially collapsed into a town centre street in the early hours of yesterday will have to be demolished.

Festival cannabis charges dropped

8:23am Saturday 13th March 2010

A MUSIC festival organiser said last night the “show is back on”

Race a tram and help sick children

IN THE RUNNING: Author Terry Deary is joined by Laura Sowersby, regional fundraiser for Grace House North-East Children’s Hospice Appeal, left, and Suzanne Battersby, campaign co-ordinator at Beamish Museum, at the launch of the Beamish tram challenge

8:27am Saturday 13th March 2010

CHILDREN’S author Terry Deary aims to get people running down memory lane to help sick children.

Boxing clever to help 3 Rifles

KEEPING BUSY: Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Durham pack gift boxes for the 3rd Battalion The Rifles serving in Afghanistan

8:32am Saturday 13th March 2010

CARING women have been packing gifts to send to soldiers serving in Afghanistan.

Mayor backs band appeal

SUPPORTING CAUSE: The Mayor of Darlington, Councillor Jim Ruck, who donated £100 for his 3 Rifles wristband

8:29am Saturday 13th March 2010

ONE of the region’s mayors yesterday gave his backing to a wristband appeal for soldiers injured and killed in the line of duty.

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