A FEMALE motorist had been to be freed from her car after it left the road and went down an embankment. The accident happened shortly before 6pm tonight at Norby, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire. Firecrews tended to the victim and cut her from the wreckage
VETERAN midfielder Paul Scholes steered Manchester United into the Champions League final with a glorious victory against Barcelona at Old Trafford. It was a fitting reward for a player who missed out nine years ago when United lifted the trophy. Scholes
ALI Carter tonight created snooker history by firing a 147 break at the 888.com World Championship - the first time two maximums have been scored in the same tournament. Just a day after Ronnie O'Sullivan recorded the seventh 147 in Crucible history,
France trip 2008 Over the weekend of April 18th 21st Allstars u14's team , sponsored by Noble Self Drive , played in an u15s International Tournament in Amiens France , this meant all other teams were at least one year older than the Allstars, the games
Stockton West End VS Darlington 21st Allstars A' Final score: 5-2 Goalscorers: James Oliver, Robert West M.O.M: George Upton Report Allstars were at Stockton for this League two clash on the back of two wins. Conditions were very sticky
RESCUERS were called help recover a dog that had fallen 30ft onto rocks near St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay today. As the dog weighed more than eight stone and appeared to have spinal injuries a basket stretcher was used to retrieve the animal which was
A TEN-year-old boy from the North-East has died in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Northumbria Police said the child was from the Gateshead area and died while on holiday in Egypt. The Foreign Office confirmed that the child died on April 19
POLICE have closed the westbound carriageway of the A66 near Eaglescliffe, Teesside, following a serious road accident. The air ambulance was called in to evacuate one patient from the scene of the collision, which occurred around 7.10pm. Full details
A GIRL died after taking class A illegal drugs for just the first or second time, an inquest heard today. Kelsey Malcolm died on February 2, 2007, after being given methadone by a heroin user prescribed the medication to reduce his addiction. The
Will Super Aguri make it to the next race? Not unless a new sponsor can be found, it seems. After 18 months of helping the fledgling team out it seems Honda's patience has finally run out. On Monday the Japanese giant ruled out assisting the team any
Lewis Hamilton's team still has work to do if the Brit is to have a fighting chance against the Ferrari juggernaut. He may have finished a few seconds off Massa's pace in Spain but Kimi had plenty in reserve. In-car camera footage showed Hamilton sawing
NORTHALLERTON-based performance specialist and rally car preparation company Motoscope will be taking part in this weekend's inaugural Speed show at the Great Yorkshire Show Ground in Harrogate. Motoscope will have a variety of competition cars on display
POLICE arrested a total of nine people during a drugs raid on a North-East pub this week. The arrests followed a swoop on Keano's Bar in Thomas Street North, Monkwearmouth in Sunderland at around 4.30pm on Monday. Officers had targeted the pub and spent
DETECTIVES investigating a supermarket robbery are probing possible links to a spate of organised raids across the region. Officers are refusing to rule out the possibility that an attack at Somerfield, in Yarm, earlier today was connected to a five
A LABOUR MP has broken ranks to echo Tory warnings that plans for giant "polyclinics" across the region spell disaster for neighbourhood doctors. York MP Hugh Bayley urged ministers to rip up plans for a polyclinic - bringing together GPs, pharmacies
A COUNCILLOR has called for a new play area at a proposed revamped school to be reinstated. Plans have been launched to redevelop North Road Primary School, in Darlington, with a new £6.5 building. The school will be built on the current sites sports
THE future of a care home in Darlington is in doubt after its owners went into administration. Ashleigh House, at North Road, is home to more than 40 elderly people with mental health issues. The home offers respite breaks for people with learning disabilities
THE last hotel a famous British singer booked into before she died is to host a special tribute day. The Kings Head Hotel, at Priestgate in Darlington, is hosting an Alma Cogan day, organised by the Alma Cogan International Fan Club. The day will include
PROTESTORS opposed to proposals to build 150 homes on green belt land have submitted their formal objections to planners. Developer Yuill Homes has lodged a planning application for 150 homes at Castle Hills, in Northallerton. The town's local history
POLICE responding to a report of an intruder found their man asleep in his car - and wearing just a pink G-string. Just minutes earlier a bemused couple sitting in their own home had been confronted by the near-naked drunk. They had left the door
A dog bit two people in less than a week. The 18-month old pet, which belonged to Stephen Bates, attacked Gulam Azam on December 4 last year at Park Lane Sunderland. And just five days later on December 9 last year it bit Dr Aslam Manzoor during
PRIMARY school children have been given an insight into the world of work through a project aiming to make them better readers and writers. Year 3 boys at Prince Bishops Primary School, in Coundon Grange, have joined a Click It club to record outside
PRIMARY school children have been given an insight into the world of work through a project aiming to make them better readers and writers. Year 3 boys at Prince Bishops Primary School, in Coundon Grange, have joined a Click It club to record outside
MOTORISTS have been warned about security after a spate of thefts from cars and vans parked in Wear Valley villages. Nine vehicles were targeted in Crook, Hunwick, Sunnybrow, Sunniside and Witton-le-Wear during April, most of them overnight. Four drivers
A waste management company's revolutionary disposal system has been recommissioned following a failure which landed the firm with a £240,000 bill. Last month the Environment Agency said Premier Waste Management's compost-like output (CLO) contained too
AN investigation is underway into how a bus and a wagon came to collide, injuring 13 people. A pregnant woman was among those taken to hospital on Monday afternoon, after the bus careered into a bus stop before smashing into a tree. Fortunately, there
POLICE are looking for a naked man who was last seen carrying out an obscene act at the side of a major road. Motorists spotted the man at around 2am this morning (TUES) standing by the side of the A66 near the Surtees Bridge, Stockton. He is described
AN independent retailer says it is being forced out of a market town because of spiralling rent costs. Furniture store Eastern Origins is closing its shop in Northallerton High Street, after trading in the town for more than four years. A sign in placed
DETECTIVES are investigating an alleged sex attack in a town's beauty spot, it was revealed today. A middle-aged man was sexually assaulted by another man in Northallerton, in North Yorkshire, at about 8.30pm on Monday, April 21, Police only released
A FORMER diplomat accused of trying to smuggle military equipment to Iran is to take his fight against extradition to the US to the House of Lords. Nosratollah Tajik, who served as Iran's ambassador to Jordan from 1999 to 2003, is said by the Bush administration
AN illegal immigrant who used a false passport to get a job has been saved from jail by a moving letter written by his girlfriend. A judge yesterday told Abdourahamane Barry that people would usually be locked up for committing such serious fraud offences
HUNDREDS of residents are expected to attend a public meeting to discuss plans to introduce car parking charges in four market towns. Hambleton District Council wants to introduce the charges in Northallerton, Bedale, Thirsk and Stokesley, from July
GORDON McQUEEN has returned to Middlesbrough as part of a move to strengthen the club's recruitment team. McQueen was first team coach during Bryan Robson's days in charge and has been asked to take on a new position that will see him work alongside
A BABY will forever be reminded she was delivered in the back of a car - after her parents named her Lexus. Parents Kirsteen and Stu Vaughan chose to name their baby Madison Lexus after she entered the world in the makeshift delivery suite.
DAREDEVIL pub staff and their customers took a 200ft leap of faith to help a severely disabled boy. A bungee platform was set up high above the car park of the Durham Ox, in Northallerton, to raise funds for the Joshua Peacock Charitable Trust
VOLUNTEERS at a town centre charity shop have criticised plans to partly demolish it as part of a social housing development. Under the £850,000 proposals, the YMCA shop in Richmond's Market Place would lose about two thirds of its retail space
A THOUSAND balloons have been released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a conference - and raise funds for charity. The balloons were released to mark the anniversary of the annual conference at the Harrogate International Conference Centre.
RESIDENTS will meet quarry bosses next month to demand an end to high levels of lorry traffic through their village. Over the past few months Gilling West, near Richmond, has seen a big increase in lorry movement, after heavy building suppliers
AN anti-social nuisance was back behind bars for a random drunken attack within hours of his release from a previous prison sentence. Paul Blakelock went on a drinking spree on January 28, following his release from a sentence for assault and
A NORTH Durham market town enjoyed an international dance festival with a range of activities and events at the weekend. The festival started at Chester-le-Street's Civic Heart and the town's Chicago Rock cafe. Events included break- dancing
THE first brick of a new church for Bowburn was laid yesterday. Church warden Maureen Robinson and Mary Armstrong, from the Bowburn Parochial Church Council, helped get building work under way at the new Christ the King Church. The building
AN MP says she is "furious'' that a controversial plan to build a house that attracted more than 25 objections from residents was not put before councillors. Durham City Council used delegated powers to approve the development on land at Kepier
A YOUNG Redcar pianist stepped into the spotlight when she answered an urgent call play at a classical concert on Saturday. Ellen Haramalis showed calm nerves when she shared the stage for a specially-composed duet with international concert
A FIRM that has spent more than £500,000 refitting a Middlesbrough nightclub has been landed with the burden of additional expenditure after failing to control rubbish at the premises. Vimac Trading Limited pleaded guilty to two breaches of the
THE race is on to find a future Formula One star on Teesside. Children attending Ormesby School, Middlesbrough, have been testing their purposebuilt model cars on an indoor 25-metre test track. The school is gearing up to enter the F1 in Schools
A £300,000 project to refurbish a Teesside clock tower and bus station has begun. Work started yesterday on the prominent landmark, in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, in an effort to improve the look of the area. Structural repairs will be carried
EVERYONE likes the idea of being able to make easy money. Investing in the stock market, however, is not always as easy as it may seem, regardless of how much experience or knowledge you may feel you have. There is an old adage that says:
BREWER Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) will fall into foreign hands today after its £7.8bn takeover by rivals Heineken and Carlsberg. Shares in the Newcastle Brown Ale maker will be delisted after shareholders called time on more than 250 years
SHARES in the UK's biggest mortgage lender remained unscathed yesterday, despite speculation that it will ask shareholders for as much as £4bn this week to stabilise its finances. Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), which is said to be finalising
ALTHOUGH it might be months before they realise it, the spectacle of High Street banks in crisis as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) asks shareholders for £12bn is bad news for millions of workers in private sector pension schemes. Pension funds of
AS the sustainability agenda continues to move on, 2008 is shaping up to be a year of significant change for the commercial property industry. Along with changes to empty property relief comes the introduction of Energy Performance Certificates
A PRE-LET of 135,000 sq ft of industrial space has been agreed with seafood company Cumbrian Holdings Ltd at Foxcover Distribution Park in Seaham, County Durham. The deal, which achieved a headline rent of £4.75 per sq ft, was completed by
ONE of the UK's leading providers of out-sourced business processes is opening its second base in the North-East, at the Morton Palms Business Park in Darlington. Liberata has just signed up to two buildings totalling 6,700 sq ft in the Pioneer
Some of the most famous names in the business world will visit the North-East next month to inspire and encourage future entrepreneurs. Sarah French previews the fifth annual Entrepreneurs' Forum conference. THE Entrepreneurs' Forum conference hits
THE Yorkshire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group will look at oilseed rape as a biofuel next month. It will hold a guided tour at Veg Oil Services, Storwood Manor, Storwood, near York, on Wednesday, May 14, at 6.30pm, where Peter Rhodes diversified
THE foul smell that wafted over large parts of London and the South- East last week could have been a taste of things to come, according to the National Farmers' Union (NFU). The "London Stink" is believed to have been caused by Dutch farmers'
THE country's largest supplier of free-range eggs is recruiting more producers. Noble Foods supplies millions of eggs each day to major retailers and expects demand to grow by up to ten per cent this year. Demand for free-range chickens and
A TEAM from legal firm Eversheds has raised more than £3,000 for a charity founded by Olympic athlete Steve Cram. Four people from the Newcastle firm took part in a 134-mile coast-tocoast bike ride to raise money for Comrades of Children Overseas
A SURFER will be the youngest solicitor to stand before judges in North-East courts. Rachel Dyson, 27, has become the North-East's youngest female solicitor advocate. Her recently acquired Higher Rights of Audience allows her to defend her clients
THIS is not an easy time to be moving house. Static or falling prices and a dramatically changed fiscal environment will make many more inclined to dig in and stay put until things improve. Instead of moving, some of us may be able to alter or extend
KITCHEN-FITTER Michael Telford carried out work around the world before deciding to set up his own business in his home area. Despite initial apprehensions about becoming his own boss, over the past two years the 26-year-old's company - Lifestyle
ONE of the region's leading businessmen is backing a search for entrepreneurs to follow in his footsteps by winning office space at one of the North-East's leading business venues. Paul Callaghan, chairman of Leighton Group and a board member
A NORTH-EAST business has expanded outside the region after securing a contract to showcase its services in London and around Europe. 7Presentations helps clients win new clients by transforming their PowerPoint slides into dealclinching presentations
AS competition for customers increases, it is vital that businesses make the most of marketing options. In recent years, the traditional methods - including advertising, PR and direct mail - have been joined by e-marketing. Flexible and cost effective
PUBLIC relations, branding, marketing and design agency Cool Blue has launched an animated website - www.coolblue brand.com - which includes a virtual wrist watch and an active iPod. Visitors can also send the team an interactive virtual postcard
WESTMINSTER Business Centre, at Wynyard Park, on Teesside, is hosting an open day from noon to 2pm tomorrow in the Wellington House complex. Advisors from NStar Finance and Business, which has an office in the centre, will be available to discuss
A NORTH-EAST entrepreneur who founded a business support group that has helped more than 26,000 people across the UK has won a national award. Terry Owens, founder of InBiz, was awarded the overall champion enterprise supporter accolade at the
ANYONE wanting to enter the Yorkshire and the Humber Institute of Directors 2008 Director of the Year Awards has just over a month to submit their nomination. The awards are open to members and nonmembers of the institute, including people
FOUR civil contractors with a combined experience of 160 years have been elected the first honorary life members of the sector's main organisation. The four have been commended for their "exceptional service" to the Civil Engineering Contractors
A £20M plan to safeguard hundreds of jobs at Nestle's plant in York reached a major milestone yesterday with the opening of a £15m facility that will make Aero chocolate bars. It forms part of a three-year business plan, announced in September
LEISURE group Premium Bars and Restaurants (PBR) is to move its headquarters away from the North-East as it pushes ahead with a national expansion programme. The company said it was moving its head office from Newcastle to Manchester as a reflection
THE pace of change in the Tees Valley is nothing short of incredible. Futuristic buildings are shooting up on Middlehaven and a real buzz is going round the business community. The quantity and quality of contracts, deals and developments happening
TWO public regeneration agencies were accused of acting with "malice and bad faith" as legal action by a small North-East development company began in London's High Court. Chilli Developments, of Middlesbrough, is suing English Partnerships (EP
FABIO Capello has played down Rio Ferdinandfs chances of captaining England by claiming that his permanent skipper must set an example gon and off the pitchh. Ferdinand wore the captainfs armband in Englandfs most recent international, a 1-0
Derby County 2 Arsenal 6 SUBSTITUTE Emmanuel Adebayor struck his second hat-trick against Derby this season as Arsenal ran riot at Pride Park. The Gunners, 5-0 winners at The Emirates earlier in the season, made sure of third spot with a rousing
HAVING heightened Middlesbrough's relegation fears with a 3-2 victory at the Stadium of Light on Saturday, Craig Gordon claims Sunderland will do their North-East rivals a favour by beating Bolton this weekend. The Wearsiders travel to Lancashire
DAVID Stockdale has revealed he has yet to speak to Fulham over personal terms, despite Darlington accepting a six-figure sum for his services. But, while a deal for the 23- year-old is expected to go through at the end of the season, Stockdale's
HARBHAJAN Singh has apologised to Shanthakumaran Sreesanth after being handed an 11-match ban following the clash with his India team-mate at the end of an Indian Premier League match last Friday. The Mumbai Indians bowler was also fined 100
ANDREW Gale is backing Yorkshire to win out in yet another mouth-watering battle of the bowlers when Nottinghamshire visit Headingley Carnegie for tomorrows County Championship clash. The Tykes are on a high after a superb weekend that included
THE coach that picks me up from Scotch Corner at 7pm on Saturday has "Coundon Cons FC" in the front window and 40-odd players, officials, and supporters in the back. They're joined by quite a lot of lager. For the second successive season the
SEDGEFIELD specialist Wee Forbees (6.50) bids to win his fourth race at the track this evening by scooping the Sendrig Construction Series Final. Staging the valuable handicap chase is a feather in the cap of the go-ahead executive, who work
ROMANY MIN ELSKIN Open your window, my darling And look at the crescent moon, Watch the gypsies go riding by For morning will come too soon. The gypsy told me my true love Would come to her window this night. I crossed her palm
In traditional children's comics park keepers were always nasty, bad-tempered men wielding rakes, but Sharon Griffiths meets the modern-day version and finds the role much changed EARLIER this year, Conservative leader David Cameron pledged that in
Embarrassing Bodies (C4, 9pm) FUNNY things happen when people get in front of a TV camera. Having just said how she's felt too embarrassed for the past four years to visit the doctor about a growth on her back passage, Pauline is pulling down her
Last year the Goods Shed cafe opened at Masham's old railway station with much success. One year on it's still going strong THE ten-and-a-half mile railway from Ripon to Masham may have been the line of least resistance, more sapling than branch
HUGH Pender writes about "doctrine" as if it had a nasty smell about it (HAS, Apr 23). Life would indeed be difficult without doctrine. The word's root is the Latin "doceo" - I teach or point out. Religious, political parties, trade unions, philosophies
I URGE readers in the North-East and North Yorkshire who care about the environment to do their bit locally by volunteering in the CSV (Community Service Volunteers) Action Earth campaign, supported by Morrisons. Last year, more than 15,500
TONY Blair must be laughing up his sleeve at the predicament Gordon Brown finds himself in through not being up to the job and with too few cronies to back him up. The cosmetic touches he has undergone recently to make himself more presentable
THE big five banks are in difficulties because they have tried to make money in the US. The Government keeps saying there has been nothing like this for 60 years, and no one is to blame because no one could see it coming. Has everyone forgotten
THE visit of Princes William and Harry to the wounded of presentday conflicts at a rehabilitation centre in Surrey last week has highlighted the scandalous attitude this Government has to our Armed Forces. A young soldier who has lost his legs
IF next time teachers strike the Government sacks them, as Christopher Wardell suggests (HAS, Apr 26), who does he think are then going to teach the children? As a reader of this newspaper he surely remembers a recent article decrying the fact
THE shameless publicity stunt and hype to launch John Prescotts memoirs C sorry, I mean the distressing news about his bulimia nervosa C- came out while we were on holiday in Portugal. I immediately reached for another slice of black pork and
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation aims to raise £500,000 to equip a new North-East cancer research centre. But how does it feel to be diagnosed with cancer five times? Owen Amos talks to Sir Bobby ON Saturday, Sir Bobby Robson watched Sunderland v
THE failure of unnamed Wear Valley District Council officials, who ignored warnings about potentially-deadly asbestos at a local sports centre for five years, is clearly an extremely serious matter. Ever since the scandal came to light, when
A PAIR of schoolboys are enjoying a trip to Italy after they won a competition. Robbie Hanratty, 15, from Eston, Middlesbrough, and 14-year-old Ben Gee, from Billingham, near Stockton, jetted off for their allexpenses- paid trip on Sunday after
AN exhibition is guaranteed to take former members of an Army regiment on a trip down memory lane. Generation after generation of soldiers from The Green Howards trained at the former barracks in Gallowgate, Richmond, between 1877 and 1961.
BEEKEEPING, sheep-shearing and cheese-making will all be on the menu at an annual festival. Started in 2002 as a one-off event to help farmers recover from the footand- mouth outbreak, the Dales Festival of Food and Drink received so much support
A LARGE collection of school furniture, handmade in the region 75 years ago, is expected to raise up to £200,000 when it is sold at auction. About 120 pieces, including solid oak tables, chairs, bookcases and other library furniture, made by
A PSYCHIATRIC patient warned a doctor on his admission to hospital that he would hang himself if forced to take his medication, an inquest heard. Days later, Jonathan Ferguson, who was supposed to be checked every ten minutes, hanged himself
FAMILY and friends have paid tribute to a teenage student who died after his bicycle was in collision with a lorry while on his way to work. Jordan Louis Richards was killed just before 9am on Thursday as he rode along the B6271 Yafforth Road,
TOMATOES could be the new weapon in the fight against sun damage, research at the universities of Newcastle and Manchester has revealed. Eating tomato paste could help protect against sunburn and suninduced skin ageing. In the study, researchers
A SENIOR police officer has come under pressure for having a Nazi clock with a swastika on it at work. The brass and mahogany clock belonging to Adam Briggs, North Yorkshire Police's Deputy Chief Constable, dates from the Second World War. On
A FOOTBALL semi-final was abandoned at the weekend after a brawl broke out when two players were sent off for fighting. The abandonment of The Northern Echo Darlington Sunday Invitation League's semifinal between Haughton Workingmen's Club and
THE Conservatives made an audacious bid to be the party of the poor yesterday as the Government was forced to say "sorry" for the 10p tax rate debacle. Tory leader David Cameron exploited Gordon Brown's turmoil over tax changes that have hit millions
FOOTBALL legend Jack Charlton came face to face with his photographic portrait yesterday. Mr Charlton was at Hexham Old Gaol, where the image from the National Portrait Gallery has gone on display. North Face - Photographs from the National Portrait
A WOMAN sexually assaulted when she was a schoolgirl spoke of her relief yesterday after her attacker was sentenced to eight years in prison. But the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, voiced her frustration that Eric Stoddart was not
The asbestos scandal will have repercussions for decades to come. Reporter Neil Macfarlane looks back at the events ASBESTOS was found at Woodhouse Close Leisure Complex in 2001. The discovery was ignored, and the people who will suffer the most
FEWER than a quarter of North- East residents think we should be giving at least two per cent of our income to charity. According to figures from the Charities Aid Foundation, only 23 per cent think two per cent is "about right", compared with
A GREYHOUND trainer who flouted the law by building kennels without planning permission faces losing his licence.Ronald Paterson has been refused retrospective approval to turn agricultural buildings and land into greyhound racing kennels and a training
EVENTS took place around the region yesterday to mark International Workers' Memorial Day.In Darlington, Mayor Marian Swift planted a cherry tree in South Park to honour those who have died or been injured at work. Purple lapel ribbons were sold on the
MARK Schwarzer will be fit for Middlesbrough's relegation clash with Portsmouth this weekend, but Gareth Southgate has accepted that Robert Huth is unlikely to feature in either of the club's final two games of the season, writes SCOTT WILSON. Schwarzer
THE family of a man who died in a mining accident have today honoured a tradition that began half a century ago.Keith Barraclough, 21, was crushed between two carts at Brussleton Colliery, near West Auckland, County Durham, on April 29, 1958.A year to
Newcastle United will go into their Bank Holiday Monday clash with Chelsea defending a seven-match unbeaten run - and goalkeeper Steve Harper feels the Blues will provide a true test of how far the Tynesiders have progressed under Kevin Keegan. Prior
WHAT a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, Manchester United stood on the brink of their tenth Premier League title and a place in the final of the Champions League. Two games later, and they are close to collapse.Insipid in the Nou Camp and imploding
FURY has erupted after the publication of a damning report into the asbestos scandal at a North-East council was blocked ahead of local government elections.Wear Valley District Council was fined £18,000 after bosses ignored warnings about the dangerous
NIALL Quinn will meet Roy Keane this week to discuss the next step in Sunderland's ongoing rebuilding project and the Black Cats chairman is confident the duo's shared vision will make future contract talks a formality.Having watched his side guarantee
