Go-ahead given for film studio plan

11:51am Friday 9th May 2008

PLANS to create a multi-million film studio in the North-East have been given the go-ahead.

Empty boats spark rescue search

11:37am Friday 9th May 2008

POLICE and search teams combed a North-East riverbank this week after walkers came across three empty boats and some discarded clothing.

Anger after women locked in car park

11:24am Friday 9th May 2008

THREE women were locked in a car park for two hours after a warden slapped them with a late-night ticket, then left without letting them out.

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Benefit cheat claimed loved ones died in terror attack

10:28am Friday 9th May 2008

A BENEFIT cheat who said his loved ones had died in the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London has been jailed.

	Burma search for 17 'missing' Britons
	10:09am Fri 9 May 08
	THE Foreign Office is urgently trying to track down "a small number" of British nationals who are among the tens of thousands of people still unaccounted for in cyclone-hit Burma.
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Gulf between North and South increases

2:04am Friday 9th May 2008

A GULF in the amount of money people have to spend proves the North-South divide is widening, new figures revealed yesterday.

	Lottery charges pair may stand trial
	2:04am Fri 9 May 08
	A COUPLE alleged to have stolen money after making fraudulent National Lottery funding applications may stand trial in October.

Confession to partner over walkway assaults

5:04am Friday 9th May 2008

A STALKER convicted of a series of sex attacks along a countryside walkway, despite his continued denials, has made a behind-bars confession.

Law suit 'threatens future of unions'

6:04am Friday 9th May 2008

council workers who say they were "sold down the river" by their own trade union during tough equal pay negotiations were yesterday at the centre of a landmark test case.

Minister denies 'going soft on yobs'

4:04am Friday 9th May 2008

A LARGE fall in the use of anti-social behaviour contracts (Asbos) in the region does not mean the police are going soft on louts, the Home Secretary said yesterday.

Men face jail over heroin haul

10:43am Friday 9th May 2008

TWO men were last night facing jail for their part in the biggest heroin seizure in a North-East town's history.

Cannabis threat to drivers’ safety

10:41am Friday 9th May 2008

A DRUG expert from the North-East has warned that widespread cannabis use is putting the safety of every motorist at increased risk.

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	Accused farmer: shotgun claims ‘a total fabrication’
	10:47am Fri 9 May 08
	A FARMER accused of putting his estranged wife in fear of her life by aiming a shotgun at her has described the allegation as "a total fabrication".

	Heroic act of soldier to be recognised at battleground
	10:52am Fri 9 May 08
	A NORTH-East war hero will be honoured at the scene of his greatest act of bravery.

	Lech praises relationship between UK and Poland
	10:56am Fri 9 May 08
	FORMER Polish president Lech Walesa yesterday praised the relationship between the UK and his country and sent his greetings to his compatriots in the North-East.

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