FORMER boxing favourite Frank Bruno will turn DJ next week when he takes to the decks at the North-East's floating nightclub. The ex-world heavyweight champion will show his new-found disc-jockeying skills at the Tuxedo Princess, berthed at Gateshead
POLICE: I MUST agree with Tom Amos (HAS, Mar 22) that a 76 per cent increase in rates for the police force in North Yorkshire is beyond belief as in this area they do not appear to exist. Is the increase to enable them to have better vehicles or offices
AS little James Wilkes got into the full swing of his birthday party he was unaware of why it was such a happy sight for his parents. Four years ago Michelle Jones and Wayne Wilkes, of Sedgefield, celebrated the birth of their second child. But hours
MORE than 1,000 students have been offered the MMR vaccine after a case of mumps was confirmed at a Darlington college. Public health officials are awaiting laboratory test results on 11 other possible cases among teenagers at the Queen Elizabeth Sixth
The vanishing way of life of the North-East's coble fishermen is recorded in a two-part television documentary made, and inspired, by the father-and-son team behind The Last Horsemen. Film-maker Charles Bowden owes the inspiration for his latest series
LAST weekend would have been a very good time for getting loads of gardening done. The weather was absolutely perfect. Gloriously bright sunshine, but with just enough chill in the air to prevent it getting uncomfortable whilst undertaking hard physical
WHIPPET racing is set to return to the region when the premier event in the sport's calendar is staged next month. Organisers of the All England Whippet Derby were so impressed by the turnout last year in Newton Aycliffe, they have decided to return.
DIVERSIFICATION is proving to be the way forward for an agricultural engineering firm in Weardale. A new subcontract selling and servicing tractors has given a vital lifeline to Gardiners Agricultural Engineering in Frosterley. The small business has
DEDICATED vet Sasha Farr has been shortlisted in a national competition to find the Vet of the Year. Sasha, a senior vet at Wilson's Veterinary Surgery in Bishop Auckland, has been named as one of the three finalists in the Petplan Vet of the Year competition
Residents in Thornaby are being reminded to attend a meeting next week. The aim of the meeting is to give residents in the town a chance to have their say on whether they would like the Village Park Residents' Association to continue. The meeting will
A PROJECT which encourages people in Sedgefield borough to live a healthier life has celebrated its first anniversary. The Passport to Health project celebrated is birthday at the Pioneering Care Centre in Newton Aycliffe, with local partner agencies
CRIMEFIGHTERS in Wear Valley have recruited an invisible ally to help reduce theft and recover stolen goods. They are marking property with a coating of a clear solution called Smart Water which they hope will be thief-proof because it cannot be detected
ENVIRONMENTALLY conscious youngsters have raised money for charity through their recycling efforts. Children from St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic School, Crook, have been recycling their computer ink cartridges to support the Butterwick Hospice's recycling
A COUNCIL has returned to its roots in an attempt to clear a woodland area. Darlington Borough Council is using horses to pull felled trees out of the wooded areas on Edinburgh Drive. As part of its on-going woodland management project, the council has
IT should have been the TV event of the year for me, a quiz on the box in the corner which measured your love life. But Test The Nation - The National Relationship Test (BBC1, Saturday), the show which lasted longer than some marriages, turned out to
A FAMILY faces an agonising wait for HIV test results after a little girl pricked her hand on a hypodermic needle as she played near her home. Lauren Elizabeth Meale had to spend most of her fourth birthday in hospital undergoing health checks after falling
THE 'Jam and Jerusalem' myth that was once at the centre of the Women's Institute is long gone. The ladies from the Crook branch of the WI laughed off the image of yesteryear as they celebrated their 80th birthday with a special meal and cake at the Helme
A DARLINGTON school struck gold in a football competition. Dodmire Junior School team beat off all other competition in the Football in the Community tournament but then narrowly lost 2-1 to the Leeds Academy in the semi-finals. Their skills caught the
ALE drinkers will be taking a tipple or two during the Spring Thing folk music festival. The Darlington branch of The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has organised a beer festival in conjunction with the folk festival and is hoping to sell about 4,000 pints
