BRAVE dog lover Lissie Laws will go to any lengths to save the life of her beloved pooch, Clementine. For the determined factory trainer, from Barton-le-Willows, near Malton, North Yorkshire, will be taking on a parachute jump to raise money for a life-saving
A CAMPAIGN is to be launched to show people how to protect themselves from the worst impacts of flooding. Homes in West Auckland and South Church, County Dur-ham, were devastated by the floods that swept through the area at the beginning of June. But
PLANS for a high-tech research park on the site of a former mental hospital could bring about 5,000 jobs to County Durham. Council officials have said they hope to transform the former Winterton Hospital, at Sedgefield, into a centre dedicated to research
American Lance Armstrong clinched his second consecutive Tour de France title after Italian Stefano Zanini won a mass sprint to capture the 21st and final stage. The 28-year-old Texan, who shocked the sport's experts in 1999 by winning two years after
UNION leaders met yesterday to discuss the threat of more job losses in the North-East steel industry in the face of the strong pound. And they have warned such further losses could tear the heart out of industrial centres, such as Teesside, which has
A POLICE finance officer has been arrested and questioned over allegations that he has been operating an escort agency. Civilian worker John Dockerty, 27, was arrested early on Saturday and questioned on suspicion of living off immoral earnings. The Durham
PORT Vila, who has progressed with every outing to date, can notch the biggest win of his career by lifting the Sodexho Prestige Scottish Classic over a mile and a quarter at Ayr this afternoon. Unbeaten in his first two outings as a juvenile, John Gosden's
THE family of murdered schoolboy Wesley Neailey have demanded that full details of known paedophiles be made public. The family is backing a controversial decision by a national newspaper to publish the names and photographs of convicted sex offenders
SOME of television's best known personalities were among 4,200 people who stepped out on the 13th Great North Walk yesterday. Sir Jimmy Savile, a life-long charity campaigner, saw each of the four sets of walkers off from the starting point in Wolsingham
A VICAR had quite a baptism into the world of water sports when he was twice tipped into the River Tees while blessing the marriage of two jet-ski fanatics. The Reverend Paul Walker, the spirited Vicar of St Mary's, Norton, Stockton, managed to keep his
A POLICE investigation has been launched into claims that underground corridors and rooms containing parts of human bodies have been discovered beneath a former Victorian mental hospital. Contractors are understood to have made the discovery during the
DARLINGTON FC AT a recent Darlington fans forum, led by George Reynolds, we were given no opportunity to discuss the ticket prices, never mind vote on them. Instead Mr Reynolds spent the entire evening criticising one of the players. The ticket prices
PARENTS have launched a protest campaign after it was revealed their local education authority is considering sending 48 deaf children to mainstream schools. Middlesbrough Borough Council is proposing that the children be moved from Beverley School, Saltersgill
CAPTAIN Roger Taylor last night insisted Great Britain can bounce straight back after their ''devastating'' relegation from the Davis Cup world group. Britain lost 3-2 to unfancied Ecuador on Wimbledon's No1 court, a team that former skipper David Lloyd
