Newcastle Benfield gave new manager Alu Bangura a winning start with a 3-0 victory at South Shields in the FA Cup last night. Benfield took the lead after 12 minutes with a header by Chris Feasey, then Andy Hirst made it 2-0 on the half hour
THE Guisborough-based Swan Yamaha team had a mixed start to the MCE British Superbike Championship Showdown. Tommy Hill claimed a double podium finish, while Michael Laverty secured a second place in race one before a crash in the second race at Donington
Cockfield Quoits Club were crowned division 2 champions at the end of August and to celebrate, the team are holding a presentation night on Saturday 17th Sept in the Middle House. Along with the presentation of trophies to team members and
VISITORS scaled an historic landmark 160ft above the River Tees as part of the national Heritage Open Days. On Sunday, people climbed to the top of the Transporter Bridge, in Middlesbrough, the only one of its kind in the UK. They looked inside
MOTHERS facing eviction have credited no-nonsense rules imposed by a housing project for turning their lives around. Before Lisa Hunt moved into a flat for families in crisis, she was at risk of having her three children taken into care. A year
SYLVIA FILLERY wants to fill some gaps in her efforts to complete her family tree. She is looking for information about the family of Christopher Rutherford, born in Darlington in 1817. He died in 1908. He married Elizabeth Clarkson (1823 - 1857) in
AN expanding agricultural college has bought a second Salers bull for use on its dairy herd – and possibly for students to show. Askham Bryan College, York, bought its first bull from Rigel Pedigree (Messrs Pye), of Yarm, two years ago. Mike
THE NFU is committed to working with the rest of the supply chain to achieve fair contracts for dairy farmers – but it will not shy away from calling for government intervention to ensure its members get a fairer deal. Speaking at the recent
TELECOM provider BT has hardly been slow to bump up prices for long-suffering regular customers in recent years and this winter it is set to push them even higher. Although a powerful media campaign – Sunshine Deals – currently offers BT Total
SIX of the region’s auction marts are to operate a suckler calf health protection scheme in this autumn’s sales which could attract premium prices for sellers. The marts involved are Darlington, Thirsk, Hexham, Rothbury, Acklington and Scot’s
A THIRD of EU egg production will not meet new hen welfare regulations when they come into force on January 1 next year. Now an influential committee of MPs has called on the government to ban imports of non-compliant eggs and egg products, and
THE Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has called on the Government to review its TB reactor clearance policy and introduce a speedier marketbased solution. David Cotton, chairman, believes farmers currently have too long to
A HIGH-LEVEL maintenance firm responsible for the upkeep of Britain’s most historic buildings has secured £100,000 of work on some of the UK’s most stunning architecture. The work comes as family owned Stone Technical Services, which has worked
DICKINSON Dees has become the first law firm in the region to launch an initiative which gives access to quality work experience for young people from less privileged backgrounds. Prime is being supported by the law societies of England and Wales
A FAMILY-OWNED handling and storage equipment specialist is planning to expand nationally after working with some of the best-known firms in the North-East. County Durham-based Clark Handling and Storage Equipment, which provides companies with
A FAMILY-OWNED handling and storage equipment specialist is planning to expand nationally after working with some of the best-known firms in the North-East. County Durham-based Clark Handling and Storage Equipment, which provides companies with
IF my mother had been with me, God rest her soul, she would, on seeing progressive metallers Tesseract, have said: "Those boys need a good feed." New lead singer, Elliot Coleman, apart, the other three members of the Reading outfit looked like
A CENTURY BY Vikram Solanki, notable for its blend of class and good fortune, carried Worcestershire to 255 for three at tea, when they trailed Durham by only nine runs. After a wicketless morning, Durham finally made the breakthrough when left-hander
AN annual golf day has raised £5,000 for charity. Eighteen teams took part in the event at Ramside Hall Golf Club, in Durham City, on September 6 to raise money for St Cuthbert’s Hospice. Golfers started their day with coffee and a breakfast
POLICE have released a photograph of volunteer driver George Brown who died instantly after a tree crashed onto his hospice ambulance yesterday as hurricane winds pounded the region. Tributes were paid last night to the 68-year-old - described
AN anonymous nature-lover has left £250,000 in their will which will help save an endangered butterfly. The unnamed donor left the enormous legacy to the Durham Wildlife Trust, which is being spent restoring breeding grounds around the county to help
Show Boaters: Sky One, 8pm STEEL factory worker Ross Dixon’s singing had been confined to karaoke in clubs in the North- East. So no one was more surprised than him to find himself entertaining passengers on a Caribbean cruise liner.
LOCAL businesses are being asked to join in a special fund-raising drive to protect the iconic Three Peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A week of sponsored events begins on Monday, aimed at boosting support for the area, which sees more than
Lucy Richardson joins a Look Good... Feel Better workshop at one of the region’s hospitals for some female bonding over an eyebrow pencil. FOR some people, make-up is a superficial frivolity, but to the group of women sitting around a table
SO we learn that the biggest teaching unions have threatened an all-out strike against the Government’s education policy which aims to free individual schools from the bureaucratic control of Local Education Authorities. I have something of a
THE web site of Middlesbrough MP Sir Stuart Bell claims “unemployment (in the town) remains low”. Yet, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) lists Middlesbrough as the fourth worse place in England for unemployment. Who should we believe,
PEOPLE interested in becoming a special constable have one last opportunity to visit an event to learn about what the role involves. The information session for North Yorkshire Police special constables will be held at police headquarters,
BEN JOHNSON’S letter (HAS, Sept 8) makes a number of claims for the effectiveness of wind energy in cutting carbon emissions. However, I suspect that he is basing his figures on the rated output of the turbines, not the actual amount of energy
MY daughter is going to have a baby in December and we are all over the moon. We are also glad to know that it is a boy, so that we can prepare appropriately, namely blue not pink for the nursery and jumpsuits. But once again Europe is trying
I WAS amazed to read that Lord Lawson and other economists are suggesting that the top 50 per cent tax rate should be scrapped. They argue that it inhibits entrepreneurship. It is hard to accept professional footballers as entrepeneurs, though
AS the sun sets on the very moving 9/11 tribute events here and in the US, it is gratifying to read that Mayor Bloomberg banned all prayer, public expressions of faith and clergy at the New York Sunday 9/11 service. Since the World Trade Centre
A FEW weeks ago the television companies and all the newspapers got a lot of mileage out of the riots in London and the subsequent damage done to buildings. Writers to this column used such words as “criminal”, “mindless” and “animals” when describing
PETE MOLLOY (HAS, Sept 10) simply does not get it. The BNP are part of the problem and not the solution. That’s why the BNP is now disintegrating. Don’t take my word for it – just read what BNP Euro MP Andrew Brons said on his own website: “In
A MAN has been arrested for throwing racist insults at travellers facing eviction from the UK's largest illegal settlement. Anthony Balfour, 68, of Graham Park Road, Newcastle, was arrested yesterday after police officers at Dale Farm, near Basildon,
DURHAM had neither luck nor spirit on the second morning against Worcestershire as they failed to take a wicket. Knowing that if they reached 300 they would be safe from relegation, the visitors reached 118 for one at lunch with Vikram Solanki on 62
WE have heard much criticism from business leaders of the 50p tax rate. However, the average increase in take home pay for the same group has been 187 per cent over the past eight years. Moreover, it appears that 90 per cent of the pay structures
British banks face their biggest shake-up for years as a result of proposals aimed at promoting financial stability and competition. But will the proposals safeguard our savings and prevent banks running up debts so large they need governments
A MAN is to appear in court tomorrow accused of causing the death of a cyclist by careless driving. Daniel Mackay was at the wheel of a van which collided with the female cyclist on the northbound carriageway of the A189 Spine Road, in Cramlington,
POLICE today appealed for information over the whereabouts of firearms stolen in a house burglary. It follows a break in at a house in Chilton Moor, Houghton-le-Spring, on Wearside, yesterday. Police received a report of the burglary at the house,
POLICE have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a distraction burglary. A man was delivering takeaway leaflets in Surtees Street, Darlington, on Monday, August 22, when a laptop computer was stolen
THREE nine-year old girls organised a family fun day to raise money for a hospice. Tegan Hopper, Anya Harnett and Leilani Stewart held the fun day in their cul-de-sac in Spennymoor, County Durham. raising £160.38 for St Teresa's Hospice, in Darlington
TWO campaigns which have cut incidents of anti-social behaviour among young people in Darlington have received national acclaim. Summer Nights and Operation Staysafe have been hailed as national examples of good practice, with Darlington Borough Council
BRADSHAW’S 1922 railway timetable, which no home should be without, records that there were nine trains a day in each direction on the five-and-half-mile line between Durham and Waterhouses, calling at Ushaw Moor only. On Saturdays, in an
SOME of my greatest life experiences have happened by accident rather than design. On Monday night I was due to review another band, who shall remain nameless, wandered into the wrong venue and discovered The Bluetones. Despite having been around for
NICK EASTER insisted England will never take a backward step on the field, despite Courtney Lawes’ aggression placing his Rugby World Cup future in doubt. Lawes has been cited for allegedly striking Argentina hooker Mario Ledesma with his knee
A GROUP behind plans for an £184,000 sculpture commemorating a group of miners winning the first football World Cup have defended the project’s cost after plans were submitted. Campaigners have been making preparations for the statue in West Auckland
WHEN the Integral Collection Classic tees-off in Saltburn tomorrow as part of the PGA EuroPro Tour, for one Marske lad, it will be an emotional homecoming. Michael Skelton first played the Hunley golf course when he was ten years old, and
SEVEN men have been convicted of an £8m shares fraud which left thousands of victims out of pocket. Investors were persuaded to buy cut-price shares in a Newton Aycliffe-based company Worldwide Bio Refineries (WBR), which was valued at up to
Firebeam has one or two lofty options later in the season and can prepare in the best possible fashion with victory in the EBF "Multiplex" George Formby Society Golden Jubilee Conditions Stakes at Haydock. In the care of William Haggas, the lightly-raced
ON A day of billowing shirts, scudding clouds and no bails, Durham's title hopes were virtually blown away not so much be their own failings as by those of Hampshire. Needing to win at home to leaders Warwickshire to have any hope of division
Stuart Broad will miss at least England's next eight matches because of a muscle tear in his right shoulder. The Twenty20 captain was yesterday ruled out of two matches against West Indies at the end of next week, and the final fixture of five in the
Alu Bangura has been appointed the new manager of Newcastle Benfield. Bangura, who has a wealth of playing experience behind him in the Northern League, was number two to departed manager Paul Baker, and last night he accepted the manager's position
A NORTH-EAST canoe instructor who died after capsizing on a Cumbrian river was last night described as a “lovely lad, who lived life to the full”. Grant Kinnie, 24, from Darlington, died in hospital following the incident on a stretch of the
GORDON STRACHAN signed him as a goalscoring midfielder - and 36 games later, Nicky Bailey has finally carried out what he came to Middlesbrough to do. The former Boro manager signed Bailey from Charlton Athletic for £1.4m last summer after
SUNDERLAND chairman Niall Quinn yesterday hinted Asamoah Gyan could have a future at the club, despite completing a shock loan move to United Arab Emirates side Al-Ain. Quinn released a statement yesterday which outlined the reasons behind
MORE than a dozen cars were crushed when high winds ripped off the roof of a factory building and blew it on to a neighbouring car park yesterday. Emergency services initially feared people may have been trapped under the debris, but no one
TRIBUTES have been paid to two teenagers who died in a car accident over the weekend. Josh Corey Hopkins, 17, of Thornaby, and Joshua Thomas Stevenson, 17, from Ingleby Barwick, near Stockton, known by his nickname Ste, died when a grey Toyota
THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched an investigation after a leading racehorse trainer accused an RAF pilot of deliberately flying low over her horses and jockeys. Ann Duffield said the incident involving a Chinook helicopter had left
A SCHOOLGIRL was raped by a churchgoer and then frogmarched the following day to her doctor to get the morningafter pill, a court heard. Gary Leeming admits having sex with the youngster, but claims it was consensual and it was “offered on
Spennymoor have begun an autumn mini-clearout by putting three players on the transfer list. Moors boss Jason Ainsley has agreed to put summer signing from Blyth, John Alexander, plus defender Jamie Poole and striker Craig Hubbard, on the transfer list
ALAN Pardew last night hailed his side's new-found resilience after a third clean sheet in the space of four league matches enabled them to claim a point at Queens Park Rangers. On an evening that saw Joey Barton fail to sparkle as he made his QPR debut
A MOTORIST who knocked down a pedestrian on a zebra crossing, causing fatal injuries, was yesterday jailed for 16 months. Gary Swainston was said to have shown “a total disregard” for anyone using the crossing, between a Tesco store and the
GUY Wilks hopes of Intercontinental Rally Challenge success blew up, literally, in Hungary. The Darlington rally driver was in the hunt for honours on the Canon Mecsek Rallye when his Peugeot UK 207 S2000 suffered mechanical problems on Special Stage
Ryan Sidebottom has warned Yorkshire that gaining promotion back to the County Championship's top tier will be no formality. Worcestershire yesterday picked up the point needed at Durham to condemn the White Rose county to relegation for the
THE eyesore of empty shops could become a thing of the past on the regions high streets thanks to a Tees Valley firm which is on the verge of winning a major European contract. Advertising entrepreneur Steve Hale swapped London for Middlesbrough
THE airline that delivered a major blow to Durham Tees Valley Airport two years ago has been put up for sale amid soaring losses. BMI British Midland went £105m into the red in the first half of 2011, prompting German parent Lufthansa to appoint
THE Conservatives are today handed the tantalising prospect of snatching Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield, as part a dramatic rewriting of Britain's electoral map. An election expert predicted the new-look Sedgefield and Yarm seat - taking
Jonathan Trott last night pipped his fellow Ashes-winner Alastair Cook to the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy Award for the International Cricket Council's Cricketer of the Year. Trott, who alongside Cook was a bedrock of England's victory in Australia last
JOEY Barton's Twitter feed has been a source of considerable interest in recent weeks, but it's hard to imagine the self-professed philosopher having too much to say this morning. To the best of anyone's knowledge, Nietzsche didn't say anything
Ex-Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton took a lot of positives out of QPR's performance last night after making his debut against the club he left less than a fortnight ago. He captained a new-look QPR side, but his team-mates failed to convert
