The North East | Archive | 2001 | December
A SIX year-old star is treading the boards as the youngest cast member in a pantomime. more...
A REVIEW that could lead to changes in the structure of Durham Police is due to start in the New Year. more...
TIMBER THEFT: Several lengths of timber measuring 2.4 metres and worth £115 were stolen from Packing Industries, in Beaumont Way, Newton Aycliffe, at the weekend. more...
A DOG training club has produced an ambitious plan to help raise money for a trip to Crufts. more...
SEDGEFIELD Borough Council has been criticised for its handling of a grant application. more...
A GROUP which offers help to victims of rape is looking for volunteers. more...
A RECORD number of elderly people living alone are now linked to a service which can help them during an emergency. more...
THE fifth annual Giving Tree Appeal has been the most successful ever. more...
TWO puppies, nicknamed Little and Large, are looking for homes. more...
A ROTTING deer carcass dumped in a back yard has been making life unpleasant for residents of a Chilton street for two days. more...
The people of Darlington are getting right behind their very own pop idol. more...
A senior residential care worker who groomed boys before sexually abusing them and took one victim on trips to Africa has today been jailed for nine years. more...
A MAN died after choking on his lunch, a coroner was told yesterday more...
SWEET WRITES: Calligraphy and sugar flower courses will be held from next month in Barley Mow village hall. Enrolment is from 9am to 5pm on January 15 and between 6pm and 8pm on January 16. more...
POLAM Hall pupils are continuing with a festive tradition that has been going on at the school since 1901. more...
A CHRISTMAS market proved such a success that officials in Ferryhill are hoping to make it an annual event. more...
ROBIN and Carol French have been decorating their home with festive lights every Christmas for the past 20 years. more...
A TEENAGER and four children are lucky to be alive after fire broke out in a bedroom. more...
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to close old people's homes and build new accommodation for pensioners is going ahead. more...
A MAN was punched several times in the face by a mugger who grabbed a nylon zip folder he was carrying. more...
Police have launched an inquiry after a four-year-old girl tragically fell to her death from the bedroom window of her home. more...
VISITORS to Cleveland Police's headquarters in Middlesbrough are being held up to ransom this week - but it's all for a good cause. more...
CHRISTMAS CREATIONS: Guisborough Forest and Walkway Centre, at Pinchinthorpe, will hold a craft session making Christmas decorations on Sunday from 1pm until 3pm. Admission is £2. Places must be booked on (01287) 631132. more...
AN initiative to teach young parents with baby buggies road safety skills is being piloted in the North-East. more...
PEOPLE in an east Cleveland seaside town have been given the chance to see plans for a controversial sewage plant. more...
DISABLED groups and individuals in Redcar and Cleveland are being invited to have their say on a three-year plan to help and support disabled people into employment. more...
THE work of local artists is on display at the Billingham Arts Centre until the end of January. more...
A NORTH-EAST MP has revealed figures on the levels of mental illness among schoolchildren. more...
FORMER Middlesbrough favourite Juninho is up for grabs again - but Boro are likely to be priced out of the market for the £5m-rated Brazilian. more...
NEWCASTLE United manager Bobby Robson last night admitted it felt 'great' to be top of the Premiership table. more...
SUNDERLAND are to freeze season ticket prices next season - even though admission revenue at the Stadium of Light only covers two thirds of the spiralling bill for players' wages. more...
EUROPEAN record jumps purchase Magnus makes his much-awaited British debut in the Relkeel Hurdle at Newbury this afternoon. more...
WHAT a way to do it. Newcastle United ended their London jinx last night at the 30th time of asking, and in doing so took over at the top of the Premiership table. more...
Tommy Taylor was last night beginning another striker hunt after Cambridge recalled Dan Chillingworth - just hours into his second month on loan. more...
LAST year, or even earlier this year, it may have seemed the small team given the task of raising £1.1m to cover the cost of restoring a theatre had bitten off more than it could chew. more...
Walkers not out of woods more...
FISHERIES ministers have agreed deep cuts in quotas in a bid to conserve stocks. more...
A BRIDGE has been closed after a driver crashed into its structure, dislodging a nine-metre length of parapet and stone wall. more...
WHEN it comes to keeping the children entertained at Christmas, Christine and Raymond Beadle have a bigger job on their hands than most. more...
NATIONAL park chiefs have promised staff will be available to keep the public up to date on where they can walk, cycle and ride in the Yorkshire Dales, over the Christmas break. more...
NEIGHBOURS think Geoff Joyce is the king of light entertainment. more...
AN injection of more than £30m to improve school buildings throughout the region was announced yesterday. more...
PREPARATIONS are well under way for the return of the biggest event in the north's agricultural calendar. more...
STUDENTS are being paid to curb bad behaviour among schoolchildren on trains. more...
MORE than £300,000 of Government cash is being used to change the face of public transport in Hartlepool. more...
Incentive for fit resolutions more...
FLOODS of water gushed down Ormesby Bank, Middlesbrough, during rush-hour traffic yesterday morning after a water main was hit by a crane. more...
A KURDISH refugee who slashed a man's face with a Stanley knife was last night beginning a three-year jail sentence. more...
FIREFIGHTERS were called out twice in 24 hours to a blaze at the same Teesside garage in what is believed to be a double arson attack. more...
NORTH-East communities have been granted a near-£500,000 boost with the announcement of the latest Awards For All Lottery hand-outs. more...
Three men were taken to North Tees Hospital in Stockton today after a tanker leaked sulphuric acid onto the A19. more...
LET us remind ourselves of what this is all about. Measles, mumps and rubella are diseases of childhood. But they are not childish illnesses. They can have serious complications - including meningitis, brain damage, deafness, sterility, miscarriage and birth defects. Before MMR there were 76,000 cases of measles a year, many complications and 16 deaths a year. Since 1992, there have been no deaths in this country from measles. more...
THE final column before Christmas, and firstly a bum note on the carol sheet from Teesdale District Council. more...
Letters from The Northern Echo more...
As the NHS seeks to recruit doctors from abroad to solve staff shortages, Health Correspondant Barry Nelson speaks to a Spanish surgeon making her home in the region. more...
THE Christmas star, begetter of the lights that have brightened perhaps every Christmas since the first, was white and steady. It was as serene a presence over troubled old Earth as the moon herself. more...
ONE of the priorities of this Government has been the creation a socio-economic climate to foster equal opportunity and justice. more...
HISTORIANS and railway buffs have reacted with dismay to the news that a North-East icon is to be removed from an English banknote. more...
PRIME Minister Tony Blair was among those who paid tribute yesterday to a former council boss described as "one of life's true gentlemen". more...
SUPPORT is growing for Zoe Birkett's campaign to become the UK's latest pop idol. more...
COUNCIL tax payers in the North-East could be hit in the pocket again as figures reveal more Government cash is siphoned off to the affluent South. more...
CATTLE markets in the region are to reopen in February, a year after they were closed to help contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. more...
AN increased Lottery grant has helped secure the future of one of the region's theatrical gems after a campaign backed by The Northern Echo. more...
KITKAT bosses have stuck two fingers up at new figures which say the popular chocolate is no longer Britain's favourite. more...
THE boyfriend of a woman who died in a house fire more than 16 months ago has been charged by police in connection with her death. more...
THE achievements of young people in Darlington will be celebrated at an awards ceremony next year. more...
POLICE and retailers backed a scheme which will help shops across Darlington deter fraudsters last night. more...
A LIFELINE was given to brewery workers in the North-East yesterday as hopes remain high that a takeover will happen in the New Year. more...
A SYSTEM pioneered in the region for prioritising railway bridge repairs in the wake of the Selby disaster could be adopted nationally. more...
Packaging firm Kama Europe has its training needs wrapped up thanks to help from the Automotive Sector Strategic Alliance (Assa). more...
TTE Management and Technical Training is aiming to get more girls to consider a career in engineering through a series of information days. more...
RETAILER Littlewoods said its recovery was "well under way" as it showed it had cut its half-year losses and increased sales. more...
ELECTRONICS company NEC is closing one of its plants with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs. more...
CHILDREN'S character Fireman Sam has moved house in a deal worth up to £1.6m. more...
LET'S look at some companies whose prospects looked interesting 12 months ago. more...
FEARS of huge job losses at aircraft manufacturer Airbus are over-pessimistic, a Government minister has said. more...
AN award-winning North-East printing firm has designed an innovative executive desktop Christmas tree. more...
Christmas shoppers are digging deeper into their pockets during trips to a major North-East centre, according to a survey. more...
Three masked robbers burst into a Gateshead newsagent, tied up the owner and made off with cash and cigarettes early yesterday. Anyone with information about the raid, at Barrs Newsagents, is asked to call police on 0191-454 7555. more...
GURUKUL, a North-East Indian classical music centre, has been awarded a Northern Arts Lottery grant of £31,480 to help develop and expand its artistic programme in the region. more...
Sir Paul McCartney's fiance Heather Mills today denied she was a gold digger, saying the star's fortune would only have been appealing if he was much richer. more...
A refugee has become the first asylum-seeking doctor to join the region's Health Service. more...
FOUR artists have been given the task of producing ideas for street furniture in Newgate Street in Bishop Auckland. more...
PEOPLE have vowed to fight plans for supervised housing in their community. more...
FIVE teenagers have been arrested by police investigating damage to a piece of North-East railway heritage. more...
Teesdale and Weardale Search and Rescue Team is looking for recruits with basic hillcraft skills. more...
Thieves snatch leather suite more...
A MAN who stole money from his vulnerable housemate is to be considered for a drug treatment and testing order, a court heard yesterday. more...
PANTOMIME stars lined up to promote their show in swashbuckling style yesterday. more...
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