FIREFIGHTERS have this evening rescued a man who fell into a North Yorkshire river. The man, in his mid-fifties, fell into the River Foss at the rear of Castle car park, off Clifton Street in York, at about 8.15pm. Fire crews used a triple extension
A YORKSHIRE Dales scheme to help drivers offset their carbon footprint has been hailed a success. Last year the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust hooked up with The Fuelcard Company’s EcoPoint scheme, which makes contributions to the charity’s woodland
WORTHWHILE causes stand to benefit from a charity raffle in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee. Newton Aycliffe Rotary Club is organising the town wide event and are encouraging schools and voluntary organisations that sell tickets to keep 75 per cent of
CELEBRITY chef Rosemary Shrager has been inspiring pupils to start the day with a healthy breakfast. The television personality dropped into the Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Farmhouse Breakfast event in Harrogate today. She spoke to children at
A FARMING family has secured consent to build a cottage on its land despite officers recommending refusal of the plan. Robin and Margaret Gilson applied to Durham County Council for planning permission to build a worker’s cottage on land at Old Park
AN MP has been criticised for claiming campaigners are costing school children books and computers by fighting plans for a £26m academy. Pat Glass, Labour MP for North-West Durham, said a judicial review of Durham County Council’s plans to build a Consett
A CHILDREN'S charity received a financial boost when five men took part in a hairy experience. The men, who work for the Fabrick Housing Group, agreed to have their legs waxed to raise vital funds for the Bubble Foundation, a Newcastle-based unit
A COMMUNITY beekeeping project has been awarded a grant of more than £1,400. Four apiaries were established last year at Stewart Park and the Whitehouse, Saltersgill and Town Farm community allotment sites in a project co-ordinated by Middlesbrough
THE Mayor of Hartlepool was bombarded with questions yesterday criticising his pay and his acceptance of a second job as chairman of Cleveland Police Authority. Stuart Drummond was questioned by the public and councillors after delivering his State
A DESCENDANT of Charles Dickens is visiting a North-East museum to mark the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, will appear at Bowes Museum, in Barnard Castle, in the guise of his ancestor
A SIXTH form centre extension has received the blessing of a bishop. Bishop Seamus Cunningham, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, visited St Bede’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College, in Lanchester, County Durham, to bless a new Sixth
POLICE are trying trace a man who opened a train door as it attempted to leave Darlington railway station. British Transport Police (BTP) Officers have released an image of a man they want to speak with following the incident which happened
We’ll Take Manhattan (BBC4, 9pm) World’s Greatest Daredevils (Channel 5, 8pm) Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy (E4, 10pm) ANEURIN BARNARD’S meeting with photographer David Bailey, the man he was playing in a TV drama, sounds quite an intimidating
A BUS driver who crashed into a low bridge after becoming lost while taking dozens of students to college has been given a suspended jail term. Trevor Wilson, 51, from Stockton, ploughed into the bridge on Neasham Road, in Darlington, on September
PERMANENT traffic lights are to return to a medieval street – just months after they were removed under a £5.25m modernisation scheme. Durham County Council took signals out of narrow Saddler Street, in Durham City – opening it to two-way traffic, last
I AM astounded that Durham County has decided to spend £4.5m to introduce a fortnightly bin collection. This will inevitably lead to redundancies and an unsightly build-up of rubbish which is well documented by councils that have switched to this
I WOULD like to tell Christopher Wardell that I am one of the millions who remember the men who fought in Burma (HAS, Jan 24). I met one of them when he came out of hospital after being wounded and losing an eye. I used to sit on an upturned
YOU can’t beat a Tory Government for unemployment and total misery for the man in the street. Back in the Sixties they had a cull on rail workers and tens of thousands of good solid people lost their jobs. Move into the Eighties and they took
WHAT a wonderful chance the environmentalists have missed. Why use expensive fossil fuelled BMWs when there are much more environmentally friendly electric cars? They have been much hyped by the Government and many other non-users. Why not use
I WOULD like to add my support to the views expressed by Nick Brewster regarding Darlington Arts Centre (HAS, Jan 24). I make regular visits to what I consider to be the two jewels in the crown of Darlington, namely the Civic Theatre, which is
Physicist Professor Alan Martin, left, talks about how Durham University is playing an important role in the search for the elusive Higgs particle. AT the end of the BBC episodes of the Frozen Planet, there is a short series of images that summarise
VERY few people in the North will be affected by the “benefits cap”, that so inflamed bishops in the House of Lords, but a similar crackdown is already underway. The famous cap will impose a strict £500 weekly limit on the total benefits that can
TODAY’S front page brings positive news for those who care about Darlington Football Club. But it must be stressed that the fight to save the Quakers from going out of business is far from over. We welcome businessman Paul Wildes to the negotiating
FARMERS in the region interested in getting involved in an open day are invited to attend a free event. The Open Farm Sunday on June 17 encourages farmers to open their gates to the public to tell them what they do to produce food and look after the
SERVICES to care for and keep children safe in County Durham were rated outstanding during a recent inspection. Durham County Council is only the second local authority in the country to receive the grade from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission
A TEENAGER appeared in court today accused of killing two of his friends in a crash by driving dangerously. Joshua Stevenson and Joshua Hopkins, both 17, were among seven youths in a people carrier driven by Arseng Rashid. The Toyota
POLICE are urging shooting enthusiasts to take the greatest care when out following their hobby. Their warning follows two accidental shootings in North Yorkshire on successive days. The first occurred during an organised shoot on January 21 at Strensall
POLICE have named the man struck by a Metro train as a missing person from North Yorkshire. Matthew John Thornton, aged 45, was from Skipton, and had been reported missing from home on January 22. He had not been seen for over a week prior to his
POLICE have renewed an appeal for information following a ram-raid in which a cash machine was stolen. Thieves used a stolen JCB digger to gouge the machine from the wall of the Co-op store, in Masham, North Yorkshire, shortly before 3am on
Darlington RA are offering Darlo season ticket holders reduced admission to their Northern League Division Two home game against Crook on Friday night at Brinkburn Road. Any Darlo season ticket holder showing his season ticket book at the
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a man who fell off his bike. The incident happened on Gatherley Road in Catterick Bridge, near Richmond. Members of the public made efforts to revive the man at 7.42am this morning, but were unsuccessful. He was travelling
STAR-gazers are being encouragd to head for a North Yorkshire beauty spot - after it was officially named as a Dark Sky Discovery site. Sutton Bank, near Thirsk, has been given the accolade for its combination of low light pollution levels, clear horizons
Liverpool 2 Manchester City 2 LIVERPOOL captain Steven Gerrard led the celebrations as his side ended a near sixyear wait to qualify for a major domestic final. The Reds booked their place in the Carling Cup showpiece with Cardiff by
TRAINER Rebecca Curtis is one short of equalling her best ever total after Will Kennedy helped Scoter Fontaine leave behind a succession of unconvincing form figures at Hereford. Curtis, who is one of the rising young stars of the ranks, only
ENGLAND’S interim head coach Stuart Lancaster has confirmed his intention to apply for the full-time job. The Rugby Football Union have advertised the position and have recruited headhunters Odgers to scour the world for potential candidates.
IT WILL surprise some people to hear that Luke Donald is trying out new clubs after the year he has just had. But England’s world number one is determined to make 2012 even better, with a first major, of course, top of his wish list - as it
TITUS GENT can feel the benefit of a return to six furlongs in the Florence Moore Big Birthday Handicap at Kempton. The seven-year-old dropped back to the minimum trip at this track last time and he just looked to find the five furlongs a bit
A STREAKER who gatecrashed the Turner Prize when it was staged in the North-East will appear before magistrates today. Mark Roberts ran on stage wearing little more than a pink tutu and thong just as photographer Mario Testino was about to announce Turner
IT HAS been a long road from the valleys to the desert, but Monty Panesar kept the faith and claimed just reward with his 40th Test cap for England yesterday. There was a wicket too, albeit at the second time of asking, in 33 overs of toil
A RAGING drunk smashed his way through a bedroom door with a mallet as his partner and children cowered behind it, a court heard yesterday. Daniel McMenamin screamed at his terrified family, telling them: "I'm going to kill all of you and then the
A SPORTY 12-year-old girl has been named North-East Student of the Year by Sky Sports. Emma Cassell, of Manor Technology College, Hartlepool, joined 11 other regional finalists from all over the UK at a ceremony held at Wembley Stadium, where former
WITNESSES are being sought after a man was stabbed near a school in Thornaby last month. The 25-year-old victim suffered a leg wound in the incident in Baysdale Road, opposite St Patrick's secondary school at about 1.10pm on Friday, January 13.
A TEENAGER has been arrested after every window of a minibus was smashed while it was in the visitors' car park at the Guisborough Forest and Walkway Centre. The incident took place while the maroon van was parked there on Monday, at lunchtime.
OFFICERS are taking to the internet to keep residents up to date with neighbourhood policing in the Hutton ward of Redcar and Cleveland. The Twitter page will include updates on how priorities are being tackled in the area, what neighbourhood police
A MAN had to be rescued from a railway track after an eight tonne machine trapped him from the waist down. The incident happened at Con Mech engineering firm at Harelaw Industrial Estate, Annfield Plain, County Durham, at 1am today.
DEMBA Ba and Papiss Cisse will both be available for Newcastle United's next Premier League fixture after Senegal suffered a shock exit from the Africa Cup of Nations last night. Having lost their opening match to Zambia, Senegal had to claim at least
SUNDERLAND have inquired about signing Kevin Davies until the end of the season, but Bolton insist they will not be allowing the veteran striker to leave on loan. With Nicklas Bendtner set to be absent for two or three weeks after breaking
ALAN Pardew returned to the North-East last night pondering whether to pursue a trio of Championship targets in the final six days of the transfer window. The Newcastle United manager jetted back from his club's warm-weather training camp in Tenerife
MATTHEW Bates is hoping Sunday's Wear-Tees derby will help re-establish Middlesbrough's reputation as the North-East's cup kings. Since signing his first professional forms on Teesside eight years ago, Bates has watched Boro lift the Carling
THE police watchdog has released details of the terms of reference for its investigation into firearm licensing issues following the shootings by Michael Atherton on New Year’s Day. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) mounted
A ROOFING contractor who stole treasured jewellery from a family after being allowed to use their garage while they were away was branded despicable by a judge. Keith Skinner not only took the sentimental belongings, but also told associates
“THERE’S nowhere else to go.” That was the view of Mary Merifield as Durham County Council voted to close Dean Lodge respite care centre yesterday. Mrs Merifield’s daughter, Sarah, 31, who is severely disabled, has been visiting the
A FORMER police officer will receive at least £480,000 for being imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, and the figure could be as high as £850,000. Sultan Alam has fought for 17 years for justice after his life and career was ruined after
FRUSTRATED Darlington manager Craig Liddle has hit out at football's governing bodies for their role in "potentially damaging" the club's young players. Tuesday's defeat at Hayes & Yeading saw him use six teenagers in the starting XI with all
A BURGLAR received some summary justice when he was nabbed by a householder whose home he had just plundered, a court heard. But, the realistic criminal, Daniel Keith James McGill, yesterday conceded he had deserved the broken nose he suffered
A FORMER diplomat and prisoner of war whose life story reads like a Boys Own adventure has died. Friends and family have paid tribute to James Bourn, who was also described as a loving family man. Mr Bourn, from Darlington, died on January 2 at
A YOUNG woman remained in intensive care yesterday five days after being stabbed repeatedly in her own home. The 21-year-old remains in the intensive care unit at Sunderland Royal Hospital undergoing treatment for wounds to the head, face,
A PRIVATELY funded legal action to re-try murderer Kevan Thakrar for stabbing three prison officers could be launched in days, The Northern Echo understands. Leaders of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) are set for talks with a high-ranking
ICONS from Middlesbrough Football Club past and present attended the launch of an exhibition to mark the day the town nearly lost its football club. Twenty-five years ago, the gates were locked at the club’s Ayresome Park ground with the club
As hopes grow that a deal securing the long-term future of Darlington Football Club could soon be agreed, Joe Willis finds out more about the club’s potential new owner. SHEFFIELD-born entrepreneur Paul Wildes has interests in businessess ranging
THE frontrunner in the bid to save Darlington Football Club was unveiled last night to supporters and he told them: “I want to bring the Quakers out of administration by the weekend.” Paul Wildes, 35, a Sheffield venture capitalist, plans to
THE entrepreneur bidding to save the Quakers from extinction last night outlined his plans to supporters. Paul Wildes, 35, a Sheffield venture capitalist, plans to invest £300,000 in the club with fans contributing a further £200,000 in return
