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  • Quakers crash at Crawley

    Darlington's play-off aspirations are all but over after they slumped to a 1-0 defeat at Crawley Town today. The league leaders won thanks to a goal midway through the second half of a match in which Quakers rarely threatened, but they had succeeded

  • Liddle off as Pools draw

    HARTLEPOOL United had to settle for a point as they drew 1-1 at Swindon Town.  Amid an uninspiring opening half, the visitors took the lead in bizaare fashion. Home goalkeeper Paul Smith tried to set his side off on a counter attack, after gathering

  • McManus grabs last-gasp leveller for Boro

    STEPHEN McManus' stoppage-time header salvaged a point as Middlesbrough secured an entertaining 3-3 draw with Leicester. It had looked like Ayegbeni Yakubu would come back to haunt Boro when the former Teessider claimed a hat-trick to fire Leicester

  • Four-midable Magpies hit top ten

    NEWCASTLE UNITED climbed back in to the Premier League's top ten with a comprehensive display that kept Wolverhampton Wanderers in the relegation zone. Wolves were never able to come to terms with a confident and vibrant Magpies until it was

  • Cheryl Cole says Newcastle firm's tea is perfect brew

    North-East pop star Cheryl Cole has admitted that tea made by a firm based just yards from where she grew up was one of the things she missed most when thousands of miles from home. Ms Cole told the May 2011 issue of Glamour magazine that she asked her

  • Ferguson given first Premier League start

    TEENAGE left-back Shane Ferguson has been given his first Premier League start as Newcastle United look to keep ahead of the relegation zone against Wolves.Ferguson, who impressed as a substitute at Stoke City, has come in as a direct replacement for

  • Murray back for Pools

      PAUL Murray returns to the Hartlepool United side for their trip to out of form Swindon.The Robins have gone 17 games without a win – Pools have lost three of their last four. Murray replaces Fabian Yantorno from the side that lost to Rochdale

  • Terry returns for Quakers

    Paul Terry makes his first start for six months in Darlington's match today at champions-elect Crawley Town. Paul Terry makes his first start for six months in Darlington's match today at champions-elect Crawley Town. The midfielder

  • Davies and Hines return to new-look Boro defence

    ANDREW Davies and Seb Hines return to Middlesbrough's starting line-up for today's home game with Leicester City. The pair, who both missed the club's last game, a 2-1 win over Watford, will line up together at the heart of the defence. That should

  • Split in two minds over one vote

    TO AV or not to AV, that is the question of the week as today I am chairing a debate at Polam Hall School, Darlington, on whether we should vote for a new form of voting on May 5. The panel includes three local MPs, an MEP and a councillor who will

  • John Battig: Yoshiko Moss

    JOHN BATTIG is trying to locate a friend who he lost contact with 30 years ago. She is Yoshiko Noguchi, now Yoshiko Moss, in the Peterlee area. Mr Battig lives in New York. He can be contacted at thaojohn@aol.com.

  • Joy and tears over Best Mum's moving story

    TEARS of joy flowed last night as Margaret Clement was named the winner of The Northern Echo’s Best North- East Mum competition. Margaret was overcome with emotion as Tyne Tees Television presenter Pam Royle announced her as the winner and told

  • Darlington chase ends in stinger crash

    A POLICE chase came to an abrupt end when the suspect’s car crashed into a van. The car careered off the road after officers deployed a stinger device – designed to bring a vehicle to a halt by puncturing its tyres. But instead of bringing it

  • Coxhoe car death mother starts jail sentence

    A MOTHER-OF-TWO was last night starting a five-year jail sentence for killing a man beneath the wheels of her car. Naomi Myers, 22, was in a rage when she got into her Fiat Punto after receiving a phone call saying that her brother’s house had

  • Burglar jailed after Thornaby pensioner stabbed

    A BURGLAR has been jailed after a pensioner was repeatedly stabbed with a screwdriver while trying to protect his home. Teesside Crown Court heard how 66-year-old Henry Westwood suffered horrific injuries in the attack in the early hours of September

  • Oil tax puts North-East jobs at risk

    NORTH-East jobs are at risk because Chancellor George Osborne made an "ill informed" decision to introduce a £2bn tax on oil companies without consultation, it was claimed last night. George Rafferty, chief executive of Durham City-based NOF