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  • Controlled explosion carried out

    Bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after the discovery of a suspicious package yesterday. Several streets in York city centre were evacuated after the package was spotted in the North Street area. Police later said the package

  • Smiling Rosie attends grandfather's birthday

    ALMOST a year after the Dreamspace disaster Rosie Wright has recovered from her horrific injuries and is pictured smiling with her mother Penny and brother Jack. She was attending the birthday party of grandfather Les Richards, who feared Rosie would

  • No repreive for 20 Kwik Save stores

    THE administrators of collapsed grocery chain Kwik Save have announced that 20 stores across the region have closed. Hundreds of jobs will be lost after new owners agreed to take over only 10 of the firm's supermarkets in the North-East and North Yorkshire

  • No repeat Storm this weekend

    Graeme Storm was unable to hit the heights in the European Open in Ireland over the weekend - finishing down the leaderboard after a poor Saturday. After achieving his first aim and making Friday's cut, the winner of last week's French Open was unable

  • Hamilton can't live up to the hype

    Lewis Hamilton's hopes of a victory in the British Grand Prix were dashed after he could only secure third spot. Despite all the hype - and a pole position on the grid - he finished behind Kimi Raikkonen, who enjoyed his second successive win - and team-mate

  • Hope for kidnap girl

    THE three-year-old daughter of a North-East man could be soon released by her kidnappers in Nigeria, police said. It has also emerged that the gunmen who snatched Margaret Hill as she was being driven to school in Port Harcourt in the south of the African