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A TIMELY memorial of the new millennium has been handed to the Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland by the town's Rotary Club.
A "FORGOTTEN" village in east Cleveland is standing up for itself in an attempt to get regeneration cash.
PROPOSALS for the future of a scheme to protect the environment are to be taken to the people of Redcar.
A NORTH-EAST prison officer has been sacked for wearing Nazi symbols to work, the Prison Service said last night.
A TOWN centre pub will not be allowed to stay open until 2am, after councillors refused an application for an extension to its entertainments licence.
TWO firefighters had to be treated for their injuries after fire ripped through a garage stacked with tyres last night.
DETECTIVES believe they are moving closer to catching a car thief who terrified a pensioner as she waited for her husband in a town centre car park.
A TOURISM group has netted a national award.
HOSPICE staff have developed yellow fever as part of their latest promotion.
PEOPLE are to get the chance to give their views on how to improve one of the region's main trunk roads.
BIRDS make their homes in the strangest of places - but few can be quite as secure as an armoured car.
PIONEERING biomedical research at a North-East university is forging ahead thanks to a £2m grant from a charity named after a home building empire.
THIEVES towed away a £10,000 asbestos decontamination caravan from a factory in Crook.
SORRY to name-drop but I was with Tony Blair - that other under-pressure father-of-four - the other day.
FRIDAY evening, 8.30pm. Just two people sup in the Gold Cup, an exceptionally attractive and meticulously kept pub in North Yorkshire, and one's a cuckoo in t'nest, any road.
WORK on a major refurbishment programme, giving greater privacy to crime suspects, will get under way next week.
FIREFIGHTERS searched a blazing house for a family they believed was trapped there yesterday morning, but found it empty.
BIRD lovers have been outraged by the slaying of a swan as she sat on her nest.
A PIONEERING scheme has left council workers with no excuses for not doing their bit for the environment.
YOUNGSTERS at a village primary are thrilled at the latest addition to their school.
PLANS to open a controversial speedway training track near Barnard Castle have been blocked by councillors.
NINE people faced charges of supplying drugs at a County Durham magistrates' court, yesterday.
With spring in the air, and the garden centres offering all sorts of goodies, many people's thoughts are turning to more earth-bound activities than surfing.
POLICE have charged a man for allegedly possessing pornographic images of children.
Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs vowed last night to return to Britain from exile in Brazil "at the earliest opportunity" after spending more than 35 years on the run.
THE National Trust has cancelled two music events planned for a stately home, following a series of problems.
SLEEPLESS nights caused by crying babies could be a thing of the past, thanks to a baby massage technique.
DESPITE the immediate gloom surrounding the loss of 1,100 steel jobs, the long-term future of the North-East economy will be more secure as a result, a leading economist predicted last night.
DRIED blood and bits of human flesh were discovered on surgical instruments supplied by Health Secretary Alan Milburn's local hospital, doctors told The Northern Echo last night.
THE Government yesterday announced a multi-million pound sweetener for the North-East as Corus finally confirmed the news that 1,100 jobs are to go in the region's steel industry.
THE passage of time has a habit of romanticising perceptions of hardened criminals.
A NORTH-EAST soldier with a fetish for stealing women's underwear from the wives of Army colleagues was punished by magistrates yesterday.
A NEW business, which aims to take the stress and pressure out of organising weddings, has been launched in County Durham.
EVERTON could throw Newcastle United striker Kevin Gallacher a Premiership lifeline.
TWO leading national shop chains are bidding to become the new tenants of shop premises in Darlington.
THE ailing US economy cast further gloom over the North-East yesterday.
THE North-East's newest theatre will be launched next year with world premieres by top playwrights.
POSTAL workers in the North-East are demanding extra cash for delivering thousands of political leaflets in the run-up to the General Election.
A BIG police operation is planned to deal with football hooligans heading for the region this weekend.
TERRY VENABLES yesterday insisted it would be "an insult'' to manage Middlesbrough on a part-time basis.
A nurse was asked to prepare a desperately-ill girl's medication - but miss out important drugs from the solution.
ABUSE of a North-East lollipop lady has died down since The Northern Echo highlighted her plight.
DURHAM face an early reunion with Greg Blewett today in the battle of the northern group's two unbeaten teams in the Benson & Hedges Cup.
ANGRY protestors say the Army has broken its promises over safeguards at a mass burial pit within hours of the site opening for business.
Richard Allan saved the lives of two young girls by catching them as they threw themselves from the upstairs window of a blazing house.
TWO police officers and a retired sergeant have appeared in court charged over alleged links with an international drugs dealer.
STEROID campaigners have warned of hidden dangers lurking in some herbal remedies.
A mayor is boycotting a farewell service to mark the closure of a university college.
A SCHEME by a community's only pre-school playgroup to install a prefab as its headquarters should be refused, say planning officials.
A LEADING Asian figure has voiced support for controversial police methods.
A MAN who doused a pregnant women in acid three years ago is finally behind bars.
A SUPPORT network for disabled youngsters and their families is stepping up a gear.
FISH that slipped through the net during a lake clean-up are being caught by more radical methods.
THE nightshift is just starting in the casualty department of Hartlepool General Hospital and we're trying to record some interviews with doctors. We've come here to ask them about the role alcohol plays in filling up their accident and emergency unit…
