West Auckland striker John Campbell scored on his debut for his new club last night against one of his old clubs in a 3-1 win at Newcastle Benfield, and also put West on top of the league. Campbell, who arrived from Bedlington last week,
People have many different ways to lose weight, diets, exercise, saunas etc but after a chat with Mally Barnes this weekend I can tell you a couple of ways NOT to try! Since Mally’s partner Suzanne works at Darlington hospital and usually finishes
A MOTORCYCLIST has been taken to hospital with serious leg injuries after a collision with a van. The accident happened on the A67 in Merrybent village, near Darlington, at just after 7pm. Firefighters had to release the motoryclist,
Ashington's away Vase tie at Shortwood United has been moved. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday February 11th, but the Colliers have agreed to move the game to the following day to avoid a clash with their neighbours, Forest Green, who are
JULIE LEITHEISER learnt to swim in Durham baths in the Sixties and became a member of the swimming club which, as Memories 59 reported, celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. She grew up in West “Doggie” Cornforth, where she lived above
Ian Guthrie now lives in Ottawa, in Canada, but he grew up in Ferryhill more than 60 years ago, Inspired by Memories 58, he recalls “a golden age”. I GREW up in Ferryhill in the Forties and Fifties, and in many ways it was a golden age, a time
EURO MP Diana Wallis is to resign from the European Parliament following an unsuccessful bid for the presidency. The Yorkshire MEP was one of three candidates for president of the European Parliament, but missed out on the post to German Social Democrat
TWO North Yorkshire beauty spots are responsible for some of the nation’s happiest holiday memories. In a poll of UK holiday destinations which provoke the happiest memories amongst Brits, Whitby and the Yorkshire Dales made the top ten. Cornwall
A WILDLIFE habitat in north Durham is set to be restored to its former glory. Durham Wildlife Trust has bought around 7.5 hectares of land at its Stanley Moss nature reserve, near Sunniside, for a nominal £1 from the Banks Group after the developer decided
THE Castle Players are out and about touring their winter production of (The Reduced) School for Scandal in a show that’s a visual banquet of colour with the most sumptuous costumes and no cluttering props, save a few gold chairs. Wardrobe
The National Television Awards 2012 (ITV1, 7.30pm) Bigger Than Cheryl (Sky Living, 9pm) Jodie Marsh – Bullied: My Secret Past (Channel 5, 10pm) THE movie awards season is put on hold to spend two-anda- half hours finding out who’s won The National
WHAT a wonderful experience was my first and hopefully soon-to-be-repeated visit to Saltburn’s old Community theatre to see West Coast act Zoe Muth and her four-piece band. We enjoyed a beautiful sound as local act Shipcote eased through an
A MAN has been arrested after a spate of graffiti in Sunderland. The graffiti had been sprayed on items such as bus shelters, walls and playgrounds across the north of Sunderland, including Hylton Castle, Downhill, Southwick, Redhouse and Castletown
A CHANCE find in a dusty old attic has helped shed new llight on the lives of seamen from the 18th and early 19th centuries. And after painstaking conservation work by North Yorkshire’s County Records Office the story of those Whitby sailors has now
THE remains of a woman known as ‘the Sutton Bank body’ were buried for a second time today. An exhumation was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday, by police conducting a cold-case review of her death. The naked body of a woman
WASTE crime officers from the Environment Agency are appealing for information after dumped carrier bags have affected part of the Sunderland coastline. The plastic carrier bags, from various supermarkets and shops, have been deliberately cut into strips
AN MP has accused green campaigners of costing school children £100,000 in books, computers, tables and chairs by fighting plans for a £26m academy. Durham County Council wants to build a Consett academy school on the town’s Belle Vue playing fields,
TAXPAYER-owned theatres, museums, libraries and leisure centres could be improved if outsourced to a charitable trust, a council leader said today. Simon Henig, Labour leader of Durham County Council, said handing management of flagship venues such as
EIGHT students swapped their digs for the pavement as they ‘slept out’ for charity. The Durham University students staged a 24-hour sleepout in Durham Market Place from Friday to Saturday evening to raise awareness of the plight of street children in
FIREFIGHTERS helped to haul an injured man up a steep embankment after he was hurt in a freak accident. The casualty, who is thought to be aged in his early 20s, was running down the hill at speed towards a canoe on the River Gaunless, near
Dog-fired pizza A dog set fire to its owner’s home after sniffing out a pizza which had been left on top of a cooker. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by neighbours and broke down the front door of the semi-detached house in Drew
A make-up artist used to making brides dazzle on their big day has been thrust into the spotlight by the women she transforms. Lucy Richardson reports. WHETHER they want to look dewy and natural during the ceremony, like Grace Kelly, or channel
ONE of the region’s grandest stately homes is to open its doors for weddings for the first time. Previously, Sir John and Lady Ropner have only allowed family weddings to be held at Thorp Perrow, near Bedale, North Yorkshire. The couple are opening
DAVID Cameron admitted today he was "disappointed" by figures showing the UK economy shrank in the final quarter of last year. The Prime Minister said the worse-than-expected 0.2 per cent contraction showed that the country was facing "extremely
MEMBERS of a North-East arts development agency have spoken of their sadness at the closure of their company following cuts in its core funding. Durham City Arts, announced last night that it will no longer be bringing arts experiences to the people
RESIDENTS concerned by the volume of traffic passing through their village have received support from their MP. In May, people living in Toft Hill, near Bishop Auckland, recorded 40 speeding vehicles passing through their village in just one hour,
DURING the recent period of very cold weather and very little wind, caused by high pressure over the UK the many hundreds of land-based wind turbines have stood motionless producing zero electricity. When will a member of the Government have the
IN reply to Jim Tague’s recent letter (HAS, Jan 21) my dates for the closure of Rothmans in Spennymoor (now the Green Hills Business Park) was obtained from Spennymoor public library so the error is with them, but if the date is wrong I apologise
MAY I through this letter express my appreciation to all the volunteers who helped stage the game against Fleetwood at the weekend. Without them the game would not have been possible. Also a special thanks to all the fans from other clubs for
I WONDER if any of your readers could help me. I am looking for a song that was very popular in 1936, it was a song by Al Bowlly called Little Old Lady Passing By. I have tried nearly all the record shops to no avail. Marjorie Carr, West Cornforth
IF Durham County Council has £80m in reserve funds, as the chairman of Stanhope Parish Council claimed on BBC Look North, why can’t it use some of this money to bring Stanhope town hall up to date. At the moment it is under threat of closure and
I SEE that free self-help snow shovels, along with a 50kg bag of rock salt have been issued by Durham Council to 770 residents in Durham City (Echo, Jan 20). What would we do without the general public? They are always there willing to help in
I WAS looking for a new interest when my wife saw an advert in The Northern Echo for the Darlington Indoor Bowls Club inviting us to come and try our hand at the sport. That is exactly what I did, dragging my son-in-law along with me, and I am
HOW many people realised the flowers shown on page 14 of The Northern Echo, Monday, January 16, in the article by Dr Phil Gates are not lesser celadines but winter aconite? When planted with snowdrops the winter aconite forms a stunning display
THE phone hacking fiasco is a well of hypocrisy. Of course, it is wrong to pry into private affairs but it is not wicked. Phone hacking is, apparently, illegal, but as Surrey police made clear in their letter to MPs it is not a law that is generally
IN 1842 Durham coal magnate, the Marquess of Londonderry, suffered a significant setback. Parliament banned the employment underground of children under 13 and women. But the peer was defiant. In a pamphlet he not only reiterated his arguments
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague was yesterday in the Commons updating the nation on its relationship with Iran. Closer to home, the Richmond MP issued a statement about an issue that will require all of his diplomatic skills. The plans to
A controversial industry is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Health Editor Barry Nelson reports. VETERAN feminist writer Bea Campbell is deeply troubled about the growing breast implants crisis that seems to be in the headlines every
DARK CASTLE looked an animal of potential when losing his maiden tag last time and he can make a successful first foray into handicap company at Kempton. Sylvester Kirk’s charge obviously did not follow his sire Dark Angel’s example of being a very
ROGER FEDERER has dismissed suggestions his pretournament disagreement with Rafael Nadal would add spice to their Australian Open semi-final. Federer and Nadal lined up a mouthwatering last-four clash in Melbourne with wins yesterday, Federer
A modern take on the traditional game of golf, which combines social media, has secured investment from a North-East business fund as well as business angels. Net60Six offers players the chance to play 60 shots in 60 minutes on a specially-designed
ENERGY firm npower said it will recruit 200 new staff in the North-East over the next two months. npower is looking to employ full and part-time Customer Service Advisors (CSA) and Team Managers (TM) in various locations across the region including Peterlee
FUEL tanker drivers began a seven-day strike in the region yesterday. Ten workers employed by haulage firm Wincanton were at the 307-acre ConocoPhillips oil terminal at Seal Sands, near Billingham. They were joined by about 100 other drivers mainly
The future of scores of Tees Valley petrolium workers who survived a jobs cull of their colleagues less than three years ago was again plunged into doubt yesterday, with their parent company on the verge of collapse. The Teesside operation of Europe's
ONE of the great intrigues of modern life - well to me, anyway - is the pair of gatehouses on the southbound A1 just north of Catterick Bridge. They were due to be demolished as part of plans to widen the A1 into a motorway, but the spending cuts
A paedophile from the North-East whose partner is accused of murdering their two children in a Spanish hotel has been found dead in prison. Martin Smith, 46, originally from North Shields, North Tyneside, was found dead on Monday evening at HMP Manchester
TRAINEE pastry chefs have been given a confectionary masterclass by a leading chocolatier. The level three patisserie chefs at Darlington College worked with coco expert Beverley Dunkley, head of the United Kingdom Chocolate Academy, to create edible
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after fuel was stolen from a parked lorry. The articulated lorry was parked in a secure yard on Tudhoe Industrial Estate, Spennymoor, between 7pm on Saturday January 21 and 9am the following day when the theft
ALAN PARDEW last night insisted Newcastle United would not become involved in bidding wars after being rebuffed in attempts to land Watford defender Adrian Mariappa. Pardew opted against confirming or denying the Magpies’ offer for Mariappa
JULIO ARCA has described the heartache he is going through after having his hopes of playing against former club Sunderland this weekend crumble around him. The South American’s two-footed tackle, which did not make contact, on Coventry’s Sammy
MORE than 300 friends and relatives have honoured the memory of a courageous coach driver who has died 37 years after his bus was blown up by the IRA, killing 12 people. Mourners packed St Akelda’s Church, in Middleham, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire
LOCAL councils in the region paid out more than £280m in contributions to employees’ pensions last year, new figures show. The TaxPayers’ Alliance, which carried out the research, calculated that employer contributions equated to £1 out of
PEOPLE must change the way they live if the North- East is to tackle its “unacceptable” record of bad living and early death, a Government minister said. Anne Milton, the public health minister, urged people to recognise they were responsible
SIGNIFICANT progress on an investment plan that would secure the long-term future of Darlington Football Club and still give fans a stake in their club has been made, The Northern Echo understands. As fans and townspeople are urged to show
Hartlepool golfer Graeme Storm gets his 2012 off to a competitive start in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, but he reveals to Golf Writer Paul Fraser that life as a professional golfer is not as glamarous as you would imagine. IT is easy to overlook the intense
Andrew Strauss knows the best captains lead from the front, and it is time he did so again for England. Strauss, set to face Pakistan today without Chris Tremlett in his armoury because of the fast bowler's sore back, ought not to have a sleepless
MIDDLESBROUGH are yet to record their first league win of 2012, but Justin Hoyte insists the squad remain confident they can still push for promotion back to the Premier League. Having gone through the whole of December unbeaten, Boro have
THE AWARD of multi-million pound house building contracts will not be enough to prevent thousands of job losses in the North-East construction industry this year. Housing body North East Procurement, based in Newcastle, yesterday revealed the names
PROPOSALS that could lead to the downgrading of children’s and maternity services at one of the region’s hospitals were last night branded “entirely unacceptable”. Opponents vowed to fight the potential changes at the Friarage Hospital, in Northallerton
HOPE for scores of North- East families caught up in what has been described as the UK’s biggest mortgage fraud is dwindling following a court judgement yesterday. The Court of Appeal has dismissed a claim by Darlington solicitors Clark Willis
A COUNTRY hotel has been taken over by interim managers after its former landlords were unable to meet their commitments. The owners of The George Hotel in Piercebridge, near Darlington, have stressed that it is still trading and will continue
A TEENAGER has admitted fraudulently selling raffle tickets in the name of a charity set up after a girl died of epilepsy. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to conning people into believing they were supporting
ONE of the UK’s youngest open heart surgery patients is recovering in hospital following a second remarkable procedure, believed to be a world first. Jasmine Carr was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and was taken from her parents,
THREE days after celebrating their 13th hour survival, Darlington were left dispirited as they sank to a shock defeat at lowly Hayes & Yeading last night. They were 2-0 down inside the first ten minutes and then 3-0 after an hour, but a heartening
NEALE Cooper has already realised that Scott Flinders is a key component of the Hartlepool United side. In the job for just a a month, the Pools boss knows how important the goalkeeper is to his chances of success. Flinders kept back
SUNDERLAND captain Lee Cattermole has geared up for this weekend's reunion with his former club by revealing hopes that an extended FA Cup run will lead to international recognition. Cattermole has recaptured the sort of form during Martin
BUSINESSES across the region are being urged to get plugged in to the electric vehicle charging point network by taking advantage of a special 75 per cent subsidy. The funding, which represents a contribution of about £3,750, is available to firms employing
THERE’LL be a new twist to one of Teesside’s biggest sporting events in 2012 - with both the Middlesbrough 5k Road Race and 2k Fun Run set to start and finish pitchside at the Riverside Stadium. And as the main event’s new sponsor, Teesside-based SABIC
