The North East | Archive | 2000 | August
FINAL plans for new electoral boundaries in County Durham have been submitted to Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister John Prescott. more...
WEEKLY classes in creative hand stitching and machine embroidery begin at Chester-le-Street's Park View Community Association next month. more...
FINAL plans for new electoral boundaries in County Durham have been submitted to Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister, John Prescott. more...
A MAN may have been lying dead for at least a week at the home where he lived alone, an inquest was told. more...
THE headteacher at Chester-le-Street's Park View Community School said his sixth formers once again excelled in their examination achievements. more...
After eight years of operation, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which celebrates its 175th anniversary next month, fully embraced steam power. The 17th part of our history overcomes the obstacles to tell how more...
PROMPT action has been promised to improve properties on a Newton Aycliffe estate to prove the council's long-term commitment to the area. more...
A DARLINGTON mother is running a half marathon in aid of the charity which helped her seriously ill son. more...
EVERY village has a facility which acts as a focal point for the community. more...
DARLINGTON Building Society has paid out a handsome dividend from its Pool Supporter Account to Hartlepool United Football Club. more...
FOUNDER members of a mental health charity in Darlington have been rewarded for their 21 years of service. more...
DARLINGTON has been given the highest praise by a Polish exchange student. more...
DURHAM Johnston School renewed its claim to be one of the country's best performing state schools with a string of sparkling results. more...
COUNTY Durham's probation service is searching for local people to play a part in developing criminal justice in the region. more...
POLICE chiefs are being forced to look as far afield as South Africa to provide enough officers to go on the beat in County Durham. more...
EAST Durham residents have been invited to help put one of the area's favourite beauty spots firmly on the map. more...
AN intrepid group of teenage girls has set sail on an adventure that would shiver the timbers of any landlubber. more...
PENSIONERS from an Eston senior citizen's centre have been supplied with attack alarms. more...
THE search for a North-East diver missing off the west coast of Scotland was called off yesterday. more...
CHILDREN took part in a special workshop yesterday to grow their own heads. more...
WALLY Amos, who unfortunately seems only to be a cousin 5,000 miles removed, is a gentleman who clearly knows how the cookie crumbles. more...
BOYS will be boys. And sometimes that's the trouble. Girls are overtaking boys in exam results. For the first time ever, they have outperformed the lads in A-levels and rumour has it that tomorrow's GCSE results will show an even bigger gender gap. Government and experts are getting worried. more...
FAMOUSLY, Nye Bevan, architect of the NHS in Labour's immediate postwar Government, secured the agreement of hospital consultants to this most beneficial of institutions by, in his own strong phrase, "stuffing their mouths with gold". On top of generous salaries, they were allowed to keep their private practices, which Bevan had wished to abolish. more...
Darlington owner George Reynolds is determined to finish the job he started at Feethams - and after axing the 'vampires' has vowed to prove the sceptics wrong. more...
RECORD buy Paulo Wanchope repaid a huge slice of his £3.65m transfer from West Ham with a superb hat-trick which gave Manchester City their first Premiership victory of the season at Maine Road. more...
NEW boys Carl Cort and Daniel Cordone upstaged skipper Alan Shearer with a goal apiece in front of the first 50,000-plus crowd at St. James' Park for over 24 years. more...
SUNSHINE seeker Rudi's Pet will be well suited by fast underfoot conditions for today's Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes as the curtain comes down on yet another fabulous Ebor Meeting at York. more...
BOBBY ROBSON last night admitted it could take two years before Newcastle United have the team to grace their "Rolls-Royce'' stadium. more...
YOUNGSTERS are getting on their bikes in a bid to keep themselves off the streets. more...
YORK sixth formers were again celebrating some of the best A-level results in the country. more...
A FARMER has won his plea to build a grain silo after agreeing to reduce its height by 20ft to lessen its impact on the countryside. more...
SAFETY fears over a new GPs' surgery are to be tackled in proposals for a new crossing. more...
LOCKING up at night isn't in the job description for one new caretaker - who has been given responsibility for looking after moorland settlements. more...
VILLAGERS in Marton-le-Moor and Dishforth have expressed fears about light pollution from six lighting columns at the RAF Station in Dishforth, near Ripon. more...
NO ONE should underestimate the enterprise and skill of Camelot in putting together from scratch the National Lottery, and turning it into the most efficient venture of its kind anywhere in the world. more...
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GOOD fortune smiled on Camelot when its bid for the National Lottery beat all-comers in 1994. But while the first six years have seen the competition raise more than £8bn for good causes, it has not been without a run of bad luck. more...
SUPERMARKET group Sainsbury is considering selling its Homebase home improvement business. more...
FILTRATION systems group domnick hunter has unveiled record sales for the first half of the year. more...
NATIONAL loose food retailer The Food Weighouse has introduced Internet shopping to compliment its chain of outlets. more...
NORTH-East actor James Gaddas is leaving his Coronation Street role as builder Vinny Sorrell. more...
A five-year-old boy who "died" for ten minutes after being left blind and dumb by meningitis has stunned medics by making a full recovery. more...
EVEN at the terrible moment when Margaret and Richard Petch were confronted with the death of their daughter, they could not believe they would never be able to talk to her again. more...
AN animal trust has come up with a novel way of dealing with a surplus of iguanas in the North-East. more...
IT'S the news generations of children have been waiting for - chocolate is good for your teeth. more...
Sir Richard Branson was on the brink of realising his dream of running the National Lottery last night after current operator Camelot was left on the sidelines in the race to win the new licence. more...
WHISTLE-blowing former spy David Shayler will be listening for the referee's whistle this weekend. more...
FIVE hundred jobs are under threat at a North-East factory because the European Union wants to ban high tar cigarettes. more...
FORMER colleagues have paid tribute to Rod Griffith, the one-time face of Tyne Tees Television, who has died aged 74. more...
RESIDENTS who live in the Northumbria Police area have been urged to have their say in the way their area is policed. more...
DETECTIVES are questioning two youths in connection with the death of a 32-year-old man who died after being attacked and robbed of two bottles of cider. more...
A COUNCIL is celebrating a National Lottery cash boost for restoration works to its town hall. more...
DETECTIVES were last night questioning two men arrested in connection with the death of a man found with serious head injuries in a city centre street. more...
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