A TEENAGER hurt in an early morning assault has died of his injuries. Ryan Hyden, 19, from Sunderland, was taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital following the incident, near Idols Bar on High Street West, Sunderland, at 3am on Bank Holiday Monday. He was
Tees Schools League in association with Game Time & Decorative Concrete Solutions, specialists in imprinted concrete paving. Nunthorpe Lions were left with mixed emotions as Newlands Ninjas cancelled their Y8 County Cup 1/4 Final game, awarding the
POLICE tonight charged two men with the murder of 19-year-old Ross Davidson. Steven Gilbert, 22, of St Anthonys Road, Newcastle, and Graeme Duncan, also 22, of Norbury Road, Newcastle, will appear at Newcastle Magistrates Court tomorrow morning. A third
A MOTORBIKE belonging to one of the top ten young moto cross riders in the North-East has been stolen. Twelve-year-old Chris Rouse, Stanley, County Durham, rides in competitions all over the country. But between March 16 and 18 his Yamaha YZ85cc off-road
DAVID Beckham starts tonight against France in Paris, making his 100th appearance for England. The LA Galaxy player becomes only the fifth Englishman to achieve the honour joining Billy Wright, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Peter Shilton in an exclusive
Everyone should be able to remember their first ever album. I like to tell people mine was REM's Automatic For The People, so I give the impression that even as a 10-year-old, I could spot an album that would do well. Technically it was my first ever
THE COUNCIL has issued an apology after dustmen were caught emptying a recycling bin into the back of a wagon bound for landfill. A resident watched the Street Scene collectors throw his carefully sorted recycling into their lorry with rubbish collected
DETECTIVES have congratulated a shop assistant for her quick-thinking after a masked man demanded money from her at knifepoint. Police are now appealing for witnesses to help trace the man who held up the newsagents in Darlington on Tuesday(25) night
A ROCK band has reformed ten years after what they thought would be their final gig. Darlington band Discovery will play at the towns Forum Music Centre tonight with a medley of rock classics. Discovery were made up of instructor Stuie Ellerton on drums
OPPONENTS who successfully battled against an agricultural training centre have now raised their objections to a proposed farm. Plans for a traditional farm at Cherry Tree Farm, in Sadberge, near Darlington were submitted at the end of last year. It
A SIXTH form student is bidding for a place in an international tournament after coming in the top ten chemists in the country. Jagjeet Singh Hans has won through to the second round of the Chemistry Olympiad where he has a chance to earn a place in
Publisher: Oxygen Games Formats: PSP Price: £19.99 Family friendly? 12+ IF you fancy becoming a high roller but don't have more than 20 quid why not forget your dreams of Vegas glory and
Purist would say comics can't be enjoyed on the computer, but they might be convinced by Marvel's vast comic archive which has just come online DID you read netcomics when you were a kid? During my formative years I couldn't get enough of Spider-Man
NEXT time you admire some exotic species in your garden while sipping a cup of Indian tea or lounge on a tropical beach safe from the scourge of malaria thanks to quinine, send a quiet vote of thanks to the botanist explorers who made all this possible
IT was Mao Tse-tung who said that power grew out of the barrel of a gun and it was Russian inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov who made his prophecy come true. Since it was first produced in 1947, this cheap, effective, ultra-reliable and idiot-proof
THE people of the North-East are familiar with the influence of the Quakers through the likes of families such as the Peases at Darlington and the Rowntrees at York, but has their day gone, and is their role diminished? Not one bit of it, as the
THE stunning, magical, breathless mystery that is the modern marvel of India is brought vividly to life through the eyes of a tea stall vendor who is catapulted from the humble backstreets of Delhi to the verges of complete political power. As dazzling
FOLLOWING in the steps of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse's Labyrinth, white witch Titania Hardie treads the familiar trail of adventure, romance and apocalyptic revelation, as young and beautiful documentary producer Lucy King seeks to
REGINALD Hill, again, this time in short-story mode and featuring some of his best characters, including private eye Joe Sixsmith and Dalziel and Pascoe, in intriguing and tantalising circumstances. I particularly enjoyed Inspector Chislenko in Stalinist
IT'S meant to be a time of convalescence in sleepy Sandytown after Supt Dalziel survived a terrorist bomb, but trouble just seems to follow him around. Death seems always at his elbow and when the Lady of the Manor is murdered in a particularly
AFRESH and timely look at the whole field of human rights, especially in the light of the latest terrorist prosecutions and Gordon Brown's difficulties with anti-terror legislation. Griffin adroitly picks his way through this judicial and moral
THE wand is a fly rod, key to Brian Belshaw's great passion of fly fishing for trout. Here, the retired Hartlepudlian journalist brings together a selection of pieces written for magazines, celebrating what he calls "the infinite delights and enchantments
FOR reasons best known to its publisher, this adopts a 1950s format, complete with only black-and-white illustrations. Equally oddly, the author hides behind a pseudonym. Yet it works, aiming to be much less an identification manual than a lively
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ACROSS 1 Talks to value a stately home (10) 6 Examine both ends of the street (4) 10 Smashing meal without a hint of pepper (5) 11 Glass making materials bend inside cover and become encrusted on a nut (5-4) 12 Gas heater gets slightly wet (8)
The Redcar TLS/Simpson Racing UK Cubs are signing 20-year-old Australian Rider Aaron Summers as a replacement for the injured Greg Blair. Aaron made his UK debut in 2007 for the Buxton Hitmen scoring 19 points at Stoke on his debut. He also rode toward
MORE than 800 jobs are set to be created in the region after plans for a £50m import centre on Teesside were approved. PD Ports will now begin construction of the warehouse at Teesport, in Middlesbrough, after Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council gave
A MAN has gone on trial for his alleged involvement in a £5,000 contract killing, organised after a stash of drugs were stolen from a safe house more than a decade ago. Andrew Monarch left the United Kingdom and lived on a false passport after Mark
YOUNGSTERS from a music school have raised £1,000 with a charity concert. Nearly 30 pupils of the Terence Lawson School of Music presented the money to Cancer Research UK this month. The funding was raised from a concert at St John's Catholic School
MPs have praised a unique scheme to reintroduce one of Britain's rarest birds of prey to an urbanised area in the North-East. The Northern Kites Project has released red kites into one of their former strongholds in Gatesheads lower Derwent valley.
TWO defendants who joined in a 'melee' after their friend headbutted a man in a pub have been spared jail. Gary Raper, 27, and Lee Garnham, 25, had been drinking in the Angel pub, in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, on the day of an England Rugby World Cup
A PRIMARY school is teaming up with a regeneration programme to turn part of the school field into a safe play area for use during and after school hours. In the initiative, Lynnfield Primary School, in Hartlepool, will work with Hartlepool New
A DEVOTED couple are preparing to celebrate six decades of marriage with friends, family and their former wedding party. David and Jean Jamieson, who live in Romanby, Northallerton, will be joined for a restaurant lunch next week by their best
Durham's leading points scorer, Paul Elderkin, has been selected to represent English Universities at the forthcoming British University Games in Edinburgh. Paul Elderkin, from John Snow College Durham, will be part of a star studded team including players
FIGURES that reveal North Yorkshire has some of the best life expectancy rates in the county have been highlighted by critics of a proposed "supersurgery". A league table of NHS trusts has been drawn up by the Government to decide which trusts
RESIDENTS are being urged to take the plunge and join a swimathon challenge. Nationwide, 19,000 people will make a splash to help raise £1.8m in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Swimathon Foundation. With only four weeks left to register
BIKE enthusiasts have launched a scheme with police to reduce the number of accidents involving motorcyclists. The Boundary 500 Motorcycle Club promotes safer motorcycling activities, which have raised money for the Great North Air Ambulance and
A POLICE authority has invited people to become involved in a consulation to identify the priorities in future policing. The Durham Police Authority said it was committed to involving the community to help shape its direction for County Durham
A PIONEERING drive for smarter working practices is proving successful in getting lone parents in Derwentside and Chester-le-Street back into work. Every week, ten men and women are starting jobs through a Work Wise North-East campaign to change
A COOK is hanging up his ladle after providing thousands of meals to hospice patients. Former business executive Paul Carruthers is retiring after nine years working in the kitchens of St Cuthbert's Hospice, in Durham City, helping to prepare food
A SERVICE club, which has just appointed its youngest-ever president, is appealing for more young members to come forward. Paul Tallentire has become president of Stanley Lions Club at the age of 32. The club has completed a successful year of
PEOPLE with disabilities are helping police to improve the service they provide to minority communities with the formation of a new forum. Durham Police has set up the advisory group, made up of people with various disabilities, which could be
A COMMUNITY project is leading the way in trying to fill a skills shortage in the outdoor leisure industry. The West View Project, in Hartlepool, is working with Jobcentre Plus and Hartlepool Borough Council to help unemployed young people become
MOTORCYCLE enthusiasts have launched a scheme with police to reduce the number of accidents involving bikers. The Boundary 500 Motorcycle Club promotes safer motorcycling activities, which have raised money for the Great North Air Ambulance and
A COUNCIL is looking for the public's views on its plans to clamp down on irresponsible takeaway owners. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is proposing to create a policy asking owners of new premises to pay a contribution towards street cleaning
POLICE are investigating a suspected gang of robbers after they struck three times in half an hour. Last Thursday afternoon, between 4pm and 4.30pm, Middlesbrough Police received reports of three separate robberies on the footpaths at the back
A PRIMARY school is teaming up with a regeneration programme to turn part of the school field into a safe play area for use during and after school hours. In the initiative, Lynnfield Primary School, in Hartlepool, will work with Hartlepool New
There's really no way the Baby Boomer generation was going to grow old quietly... IT'S stupid to go travelling without insurance whatever your age. And drinking too much and diving into swimming pools was never the brightest thing to do. But the
A taste of Cumberland sausage at Ipswich station is the springboard for all sorts of connections IPSWICH railway station may be like any other on a bitterly cold Saturday in March. In a word, cheerless, and there's a 90 minute wait before the loose
INDIVIDUALS look at the Budget and initially react to how it is going to impact on them in the short term. All of us are aware of the economic background and though few take a detailed interest there is an instinct as to where we seem to be heading
ON behalf of The Prince's Trust in the North-East, I would like to highlight our region's achievements after we took home a quarter of the awards available at The Prince's Trust and RBS Celebrate Success ceremony in London last week. Young mother
SO Express Newspapers has paid £550,000 in libel damages for its coverage of the Madeleine McCann disappearance (Echo, Mar 20). Suggestions made by its newspapers against Madeleine's parents have been despicable. In my opinion the damages should have
CHILDHOOD obesity and dietrelated health problems are a growing issue. In 2006, 26 per cent of boys and 27 per cent of girls in Yorkshire and the Humber region and 37 per cent of boys and 28 per cent of girls in the North-East were overweight or
READY to move house? Don't forget to give TV Licensing a call. As we enter spring, always a popular time for moving house, TV Licensing would like to remind home-movers in the North-East and North Yorkshire to notify us of their change of address
IN your report about the Easter break (Echo, Mar 22) you published a photograph of road traffic emerging from what I took to be the A1 on to the A66 at Scotch Corner. The caption to this photograph stated " queues of cars and caravans build up
AS a disabled serviceman of 78 I read about war veteran Glenn Freakley whose benefits were stopped when he refused to give bank statements to Richmondshire District Council because he said it had no right to know his spending habits (Echo, Mar
THE complacency and arrogance with which many of our politicians at all levels now treat the people of this country makes me wonder at times just what they consider themselves to actually be and what they are there to do. There are plenty of them
THE village hall in Swainby, near Stokesley, was packed. Many there had already put pen to paper to protest about the issue that now brought them together - closure of the village post office. Except for a PO man, all present, including a phalanx
GORDON Brown is right to allow Labour MPs a free vote on the most controversial parts of the new embryology Bill - not that he had much choice in view of the brewing rebellion he was facing. There are many voters who would argue that part of the
Optimism is the national characteristic of Burkina Faso, but are the country's aims achievable? In her final report, Lauren Pyrah examines the future of the African state "IT is my dream in the next ten years for my district of Ouagadougou to be just
A FRESH pair of legs is never a bad thing at this late stage of the National Hunt campaign and Jontys'lass (2.30) fits neatly into that category at Newcastle. Andy Crook's Middleham raider has only seen a racetrack once so far this season, finishing
ENGLAND head coach Brian Ashton will discover his fate today when Rob Andrew presents his RBS 6 Nations review to the Rugby Football Union's management board. Ashton's position has been the subject of intense speculation as critics question his
STUART Broad laid down an important marker for his extended inclusion in England's Test plans with a long and sustained spell of hostile bowling to upset New Zealand in the deciding Test. Broad, son of former England opener Chris, has learnt all
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy has undergone pioneering surgery to stop his heart pumping blood the wrong way round his body. Alec Hutchinson was born with a rare condition that means the blood vessels in his heart are back to front. The life-threatening
A JUDGE issued a warning to people who try to smuggle drugs into prison, despite freeing a woman caught with tablets worth hundreds of pounds on the black market. Factory worker Sandra Fox hid the heroin substitute pills in her bra when she went
A POLICE authority chairman has made a final appeal to ambulance bosses not to close a control centre. The North-East Ambulance Service (NEAS) runs control rooms in Newcastle and Middlesbrough, but officials want to move their second control room
A TEENAGER'S payback for a prank that went wrong will take him the best part of ten months to complete. On February 1, Seb Green set off from Weymouth, near his home in Poole, Dorset, at the start of an attempt to walk round the entire coastline
A CHILD was left badly burned after being scalded by a cup of tea at a fast food restaurant. Shakila Khalaghe, 11 months, is battling back to health after suffering burns to her face, chest and legs when the tea was accidentally knocked over her
SWAPPING the war-torn streets of Iraq for those of a North-East town proved more dangerous for a former soldier, who was shot while working as a fire investigator. Cleveland Fire Brigade arson reduction officer Gary Mason was hit in the back with
THE City watchdog admitted that its handling of stricken North-East lender Northern Rock was unacceptable in the run-up to the bank's crisis. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said its supervision of the now-nationalised group "was not carried
A UNION is to be asked to back a campaign by a grieving mother to ensure driving bans for dangerous drivers begin after they have left prison. Jan Woodward, of Billingham, near Stockton, whose teenager daughter Kelly was killed by a drink-driver, launched
POLICE yesterday hailed neighbourhood policing as one of the key reasons behind a predicted ten per cent fall in crime. Senior officers in County Durham said the force logged just over 44,000 offences between last April and the end of February and that
RECYCLED materials from a North-East steel plant have been given a new lease of life at Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5. The demolition of the Lackenby open hearth steel plant on Teesside, in 2004, resulted in more than 20,000 tonnes of scrap steel
AN investigation has been launched after rape case evidence fell into the hands of a member of the public.A package containing a video, photographs and the victim's medical history was left at the offices of The Northern Echo, in Northallerton, North
PEOPLE fighting proposed post office closures in the region have until close of business today to state their case. A six-week period of consultation over plans to shut 37 branches in Cleveland, South Durham and Richmond ends today. The proposed closures
ONE of the region's police forces will unveil the results of an investigation into the role of police community support officers (PCSOs) in the next few weeks. The North Yorkshire force has been conducting a review of the role of PCSOs - who are intended
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy has undergone pioneering surgery to stop his heart pumping blood the wrong way round his body. Alec Hutchinson was born with a rare condition that means the blood vessels in his heart are back to front. The life-threatening abnormality
A TEENAGER'S payback for a prank that went wrong will take him the best part of ten months to complete. On February 1, Seb Green set off from Weymouth, near his home in Poole, Dorset, at the start of an attempt to walk round the entire coastline of the
A CARE home manager who stole nearly £10,000 from elderly residents' savings to fund her abusive boyfriend's gambling habit has been struck off. Allyson Smith, 39, helped herself to cash stored in the safe at the Ashton Grange Care Home, in Sunderland
POLICE have hailed neighbourhood policing as one of the key reasons behind a predicted 10.7 per cent fall in crime. Senior officers in County Durham said the force logged just over 44,000 offences between last April and the end of February and that by
THE biggest council in the North-East - whose number of councillors is due to double - will spend almost £177,000 on kitting out members' homes with computer equipment. Durham County Council has 63 councillors, but that will double to 126 at the elections
A TRADE union is to be asked to back a campaign by a grieving mother to ensure driving bans for dangerous drivers begin after they have left prison. Jan Woodward, of Billingham, near Stockton, whose teenage daughter Kelly was killed by a drink-driver,
SUNDERLAND are embroiled in a club-versus-country row which looks certain to end in two of their most influential players being unavailable for this Saturday's visit of West Ham.The Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation confirmed that they have contacted
SAM Collins could be available for the weekend's game with Swansea City, after X-rays revealed the Hartlepool United defender has not suffered any broken ribs.But Richard Barker could be missing for longer, with hamstring trouble as Pools have yet to
SIR BOBBY ROBSON has become one of Newcastle United's most high-profile supporters and suggests that Kevin Keegan needs five top quality summer additions to revive the club's fortunes.Speaking at the launch of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation yesterday
A YOUNG boy who went missing while at a Premier League football ground, sparking a massive search, was found safe and well after he walked four miles to his grandmother's house.Frankie Boynton, eight, became separated from his father towards the end of
Rio Ferdinand insists he has learnt from his past off-field mistakes as he prepares to captain England for the first time in tonight's friendly international with France in Paris. The chance of skippering his country must have seemed a distant hope for
A JUDGE issued a warning to people who try to smuggle drugs into prison, despite freeing a woman caught with tablets worth hundreds of pounds on the black market. Factory worker Sandra Fox hid the heroin substitute pills in her bra when she went to visit
SWAPPING the war-torn streets of Iraq for those of a North-East town proved more dangerous for a former soldier, who was shot while working as a fire investigator. Cleveland Fire Brigade arson reduction officer Gary Mason was hit in the back with a pellet
STEWART Downing hopes to earn his first England cap of the Fabio Capello era in Paris tonight, with Middlesbrough's George Boateng claiming his team-mate is the best left-winger in the Premier League.Downing was retained in the shortened 23-man squad
England boss Fabio Capello showed the first hint that a semblance of compassion lies beneath his steely exterior when he backed David Beckham to make it all the way to the World Cup in 2010.The Italian confirmed Beckham would win his 100th cap against
CLARK Keltie will return to the Darlington squad this weekend after successfully coming through a game for the reserves yesterday. The 24-year-old played an hour as Darlington were beaten 2-1 at Scunthorpe, and assistant manager Martin Gray revealed
A LONG-UNSUNG body of men, who played a valuable role in Britain's war effort, finally earned recognition yesterday.Prime Minister Gordon Brown formally recognised the efforts of nearly 48,000 "forgotten conscripts", known as Bevin Boys, who replaced
POLICE investigating the suspected murder of a former miner, whose body has never been found, have renewed their appeal for information.Eddie Donnelly, 53, disappeared without trace six years ago yesterday from the home in Sacriston, County Durham, he
POLICE investigating the suspected murder of a former miner whose body has never been found have renewed their appeal for information about his death. Eddie Donnelly, 53, disappeared without trace six years ago yesterday from the home in Sacriston, County
While most young people were over indulging in Easter Eggs this weekend three young and ambitious swimmers were representing Darlington at the City of Sheffield Swim Squad Premier Meet in the 50m pool at Ponds Forge. Over the three days of intense
