The North East | Archive | 2000 | December
A MAN launched a poison-pen letter scam and framed his brother-in-law in a bid to be re-housed away from his family. more...
A youth theatre production of Mother Goose in County Durham could help hatch a career or two in showbiz. more...
COMMUNITY dividend grants, totalling £2,500, have been handed out by the North Eastern Co-op. more...
THE multi-million pound refurbishment of a Darlington park has moved a step closer. more...
ORGANISERS of a fundraising effort which brought in £3,000 for Children In Need have paid tribute to the tremendous efforts of those involved. more...
NINETEEN students from Darlington College of Technology received certificates at a Positive Young People Awards presentation. more...
A COUNCIL crackdown on litter louts, aimed at cleaning up Darlington's town centre streets, has achieved its first success. more...
TRADING standards officers are on the trail of rogue traders in Darlington. more...
A PROPOSED traffic calming scheme near a Darlington primary school has caused outrage among residents. more...
IT was chocs away for Durham shops staff who got into the festive spirit and donned fancy dress for the city's Christmas Festival. more...
SEDGEFIELD borough councillor David Newell raised more than £1,800 for charity by going blind for a week. more...
DURHAM University scientists are getting £3m funding for their world-class physics research. more...
POLICE musicians hope to make life better for a disabled youngsters. more...
FISHBURN is a village which is fighting back. more...
POLICE are pointing the finger at potential shoplifters to help Durham stores in the run-up to Christmas. more...
TROUBLED steel giant Corus is facing fresh turmoil after two of its joint chief executives resigned last night and left the company immediately. more...
ARTWORK and creative writing by children from across east Cleveland is to be featured as part of an exhibition in Loftus. more...
COMMUNITIES in east Cleveland will get an extra helping hand with the delivery of Christmas cards this year thanks to local Scout troops. more...
AN east Cleveland town is taking a leaf out of its neighbour's book and is attempting to spruce itself up. more...
INDUSTRIAL action by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's refuse collectors could soon be coming to an end, thanks to the intervention of Redcar MP Mo Mowlam. more...
A SPRINKLING of fairy dust Christmas madness descended on a corner of Teesside yesterday. more...
IN A debate in the House of Lords on leylandii hedges, a source of great distress to many, Earl Ferrers, a former Tory minister, said: "At the moment you have got hedgerow officers who tell you what hedges you may and may not remove. You have got tree preservation orders. You are told that you may not wear the skin of a mink on your back. more...
THOUGH it may prove akin to the youthful realisation that Santa has several billion little helpers, needs must that we recount another salutary story for Christmas. more...
HAVE you got something to sing about? Probably not. We don't sing any more. At the Choir of the Year final, composer John Rutter complained that we are no longer a singing nation. Except at football matches, of course. I bet the only songs my sons know are those questioning the parentage of referees. more...
HARTLEPOOL United boss Chris Turner tonight tries to get the better of Scunthorpe at the third time of asking. more...
DURHAM'S search for an all-rounder has put them on the trail of Danny Law, who specialises in producing his best performances against them. more...
SLICK Sunderland completed a hat-trick of Premiership victories last night to move into sixth place with a well-deserved win over Everton at the Stadium of Light. more...
Darlington manager Gary Bennett intends fielding his strongest possible team for the LDV Vans Trophy game at York City tonight. more...
Colin Cowdrey will be remembered as the fourth highest scoring batsman in English Test history. But the former England and Kent captain, who has passed away at his home at the age of 67, could have left an even greater mark on the game he loved. more...
BILLIARDS is mourning one of its top players. more...
NORTH-EAST boxing coach Gary McCrory is hoping to see one of his charges win the British Super-Middleweight Championship, on Saturday. more...
London Irish gained a psychological boost before Sunday's Tetley's Bitter quarter-finals by beating opponents Newcastle in the Zurich Premiership last night. more...
Darlington's game at York City was postponed with both sets of players standing on the waterlogged Bootham Crescent pitch. more...
TEENAGER Andrew Barkess bowled over the world's number one, when he beat the champion in his first ever proper game of indoor bowls. more...
THE Government's drugs tsar Keith Hellawell yesterday launched a pioneering scheme aiming to tackle drugs and alcohol abuse in rural areas. more...
PLANS to extend a quarry near Ripon have been opposed by city councillors. more...
A RESIDENTIAL home is celebrating a milestone after 25 years of caring for elderly people. more...
A grandmother has become a "a friend for life" to her best pal after giving her a kidney. more...
PLANS for six traffic humps on roads surrounding Ripon Market Place have been backed by the city council. more...
YOUNGSTERS are being invited to keep themselves busy over the festive holidays by taking part in activities organised by Thirsk swimming pool. more...
AN APPEAL is being made to a town today to construct a custom-built hospice. more...
PARENTS of youngsters in Hartlepool who will move up from primary to secondary school next autumn are being reminded that time has almost run out for them to make a very important decision. more...
HARTLEPOOL MP and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson faces a fight at the next General Election - from a boxing promoter. more...
A RECRUITMENT drive for hospital nurses is being launched on Teesside this week. more...
RADIO station Galaxy Radio plans more fundraising under-18 party nights on Teesside next year - following a successful event in Middlesbrough. more...
THOUGH it may prove akin to the youthful realisation that Santa has several billion little helpers, needs must that we recount another salutary story for Christmas. more...
GETTING on three decades ago, Vin Garbutt wrote a song called John North, about this grand young lad who drank the best ale in the land. Chance would be a fine thing... more...
'WE never closed" is the proud boast of Darlington Memorial Hospital. Even at the peak of last winter's horrendous beds crisis, the 450-bed hospital somehow managed to stay open to new emergency medical admissions. more...
IT is difficult to escape the hard-hitting and graphic images of the latest campaign warning of the dangers of drink-driving. more...
CHEMICALS group ICI has all but completed its massive three-year transformation by agreeing the sale of its industrial chemical operations for £325m. more...
BREWING and leisure group Scottish & Newcastle is set to continue its "significant progress" in transforming the business, after bucking the trend with an eight per cent jump in pre-tax profits. more...
TROUBLED steel giant Corus is facing fresh turmoil after two of its joint chief executives resigned last night and left the company immediately. more...
A DELEGATION from Jiangsu province, near Shanghai in the People's Republic of China, has just paid a visit to County Durham to check on the progress of the Interprise 20001 event, organised by the County Durham Development company (CDDC). more...
*The Universal Building Society has strengthened its board with the appointment of a partner from a local accountancy firm. MAXINE POTT from Newcastle-based RMT is a chartered accountant. She is also treasurer of the North-East and Cumbria German British Chamber of Commerce. more...
BRITAIN'S fastest train operator - GNER - has handed a 20 per cent pay rise to its drivers. more...
BRITAIN'S fastest train operator - GNER - gave its drivers a 20 per cent pay rise last night. more...
TERRY VENABLES finally linked up with Middlesbrough last night and admitted the fight to save the club from relegation is one of the biggest challenges he has faced in his colourful football career. more...
BIG changes have been introduced into baptism services in the North-East in a bid to give parents more choice. more...
A SEARCH and rescue dog has received a rare award for saving the life of a depressed man after he went missing from home. more...
A SPRINKLING of fairy dust Christmas madness descended on a corner of Teesside yesterday. more...
A BABY'S fight for survival has amazed her family and doctors. more...
A CANNABIS smoker who used a wood around a field to smoke joints, told a murder trial jury that he saw two people arguing on the night a man was shot dead. more...
DURHAM University scientists are getting £3m funding for their world-class physics research. more...
Angry relatives have attacked an eight-year sentence handed to a drunk kerb-crawler who killed three friends. more...
HEALTH bosses have urged the North-East public to be sensible about how they use the NHS this winter - as it emerged that operations have already been cancelled in the run-up to Christmas. more...
A WIILDLIFE campaigner admitted yesterday he had cut dozens of snares and handed them in at a police station to invite prosecution. more...
A FATHER-OF-TWO who tried to steal a car so he could kill himself with its exhaust fumes, left it ablaze in the narrow street when failed to get it started, a court heard today. more...
A FATHER, who with his son, cheated death when they became trapped in their blazing home, spoke for the first time about the ordeal last night. more...
BILLINGHAM Forum - one of the North-East's best-known leisure centres - has been earmarked for demolition to make way for a supermarket. more...
ALTHOUGH not the biggest of buildings, the Forum has dominated the skyline for more than 30 years and is one of the most recognised facilities in Billingham. more...
A FORMER Cleveland Police chief will not be facing criminal charges. more...
LOCAL authorities are forging ahead with multi-million pound road building schemes without fully assessing the dangers to the environment, according to a survey by a conservation watchdog. more...
A RAILWAY passenger has told of a nightmare journey which cost him two days' pay and a £50 taxi fare. more...
VILLAGERS have won their fight against plans for a mobile phone mast near their village green, after Prime Minister Tony Blair gave them his backing. more...
A NEW report claims the North-South divide is alive and well within the corridors of power at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). more...
MORE than a year after promising to take action, the Government has been accused of dragging its heels over ending the menace of the silent killer. more...
A RAILWAY passenger has told of a nightmare journey which cost him two days pay and to add insult to injury, a £50 taxi fare. more...
TWO men have appeared in court charged with the mugging and murder of Tyneside father David Bruce. more...
AN exhibition of watercolours of plants opens at a North-East museum this weekend. more...
A thief stole a 92-year-old woman's pension book and winter fuel allowance in the middle of a packed post office. more...
ONE of the North-East's best known music and concert venues has changed hands after its sale was agreed to a business group. more...
A GRANDFATHER whose working life was ended by a devastating fall while taking an evening walk along a North-East beach has lost an Appeal Court bid for compensation. more...
A PROLIFIC young criminal is starting his longest sentence behind bars, with a warning that stiffer stretches will follow unless he mends his ways. more...
STAFF and students at a North-East university joined forces to protest about bad pay and spiralling debts yesterday. more...
CHILDREN in Weardale will be able to meet Father Christmas on Sunday, when an old lead mine is transformed into a fairyland grotto. more...
A POLICE officer is in line for an award for his efforts in setting up a community police house on a troubled estate near Bishop Auckand. more...
A ROAD safety group will respond to complaints from the public at a meeting on accident prevention in Teesdale. more...
A MEDIEVAL fortress in Teesdale was the setting for a police road safety campaign yesterday. more...
A WEAR Valley police force has wound up its biggest ever road safety campaign. more...
THE international importance of wildlife in Weardale is to be highlighted in a new project. more...
A COMPANY that is tapping into the ever growing call centre business in the region has scooped two major prizes in the annual North-East excellence awards. more...
A WEARSIDE man has been cleared of raping a woman after she accused him of kissing her lesbian lover. more...
VETERAN Republic of Ireland international Niall Quinn - labelled "irreplaceable" by Sunderland boss Peter Reid - admitted: "I'm playing in a dream world and it's absolutely fabulous." more...
THE appeal for surgery to treat a North-East youngster now stands at £100,000. more...
NEW store openings have helped SCS Upholstery record pre-tax profits of £5.4m, up 19 per cent. more...
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