The North East | Archive | 2001 | December
WORK placements thousands of miles away from home in Poland improved the job prospects of nine young people from the North-East. more...
THE Teesdale and Weardale Search and Rescue team has launched an appeal for new recruits to join them at the turn of the year. more...
SEVERAL planning applications have been received for extensions to homes in Darlington. more...
TWO Brownie leaders have said goodbye to their young members. more...
THE Teesdale and Weardale Search and Rescue team has launched an appeal for new recruits to join them at the turn of the year. more...
A GUIDE to Islam is to be circulated to all schools in Darlington to inform people about the borough's ethnic diversity. more...
A COMPETITION winner will have to wait until after a special delivery before she can enjoy her prize. more...
Darlington branch of the Workers' Educational Association has launched its January courses booklet. more...
PARENTS of disabled children will be given an opportunity to meet consultants to discuss plans for a disabled play area in Darlington. more...
TEENAGE musician Nile Hope had £1m of computer software at his fingertips during a work experience placement. more...
Work on road suspended more...
THE first deliveries of equipment arrived at Bishop Auckland's long-awaited new hospital in time for Christmas. more...
POLICE have warned thieves they will continue their successful pre-Christmas retail crime crackdown into the January sales. more...
PRIME Minister Tony Blair kept his promise to meet a group of Guides and a bright blue bug. more...
VILLAGERS are gearing up to fight to save their green patch of open space early in the New Year. more...
FREE admission helped to draw the Boxing Day crowds to a regimental museum and art gallery yesterday. more...
SECURITY is being reviewed at a North-East university where computer equipment was targeted by thieves. more...
A NORTH-EAST slimming champion enjoyed a little extra New Year cheer when she got a chance to cuddle up with TV comedian Shane Ritchie. more...
AN east Cleveland graduate is celebrating a first class honours degree, an academic prize and a job with a local technology firm. more...
SALTBURN 53 drama group is inviting people in east Cleveland to beat the January blues and take a trip to the pantomime. more...
ALAN SHEARER led Newcastle back to the top of the Premiership as Bobby Robson's men enjoyed a convincing Boxing Day victory over troubled Middlesbrough in the 100th League meeting between the sides. more...
TWO GOALS in the first half from Republic of Ireland international Niall Quinn gave Sunderland their first top-flight victory at Ewood Park for 54 years and ended a sorry run of four consecutive away defeats. more...
JUBILANT Sunderland manager Peter Reid last night dedicated a fine 3-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers to the club's travelling army of fans at Ewood Park. more...
FLORIDA Pearl became the first Irish-trained winner of the King George VI Chase for more than 25 years when powering home at Kempton Park yesterday. more...
NEWCASTLE United manager Bobby Robson continued to play down his side's title chances last night, despite a convincing 3-0 win over North-East neighbours Middlesbrough. more...
HARTLEPOOL United suffered their second freeze-off in ten days when yesterday's clash with Scunthorpe was postponed. more...
THE postponement of yesterday's game at Carlisle means the suspensions of Darlington's Barry Conlon and Mark Ford drag on, depriving manager Tommy Taylor of even more players. more...
MAGISTRATES and councillors in North Yorkshire are fighting plans to close two of the county's courts, at Pickering and Whitby. more...
A DELEGATION from London has made a 250-mile trip north to North Yorkshire - just to listen to a church organ. more...
EXTRA cars will be able to park at the Netto store in Northallerton, planners have agreed. more...
A WELL-LOVED Leyburn primary schoolteacher has died, aged 96. more...
THERE are new hopes of improvements being carried out to the A64 York to Scarborough road which carries heavy holiday and commercial traffic between the Yorkshire Coast and West Yorkshire. more...
Two police officers who halted a man's suicide attempt are to get bravery awards. more...
YOUNGSTERS at a village school are hoping plans for a new playground and classroom will be backed by councillors in the New Year. more...
THE good works of teenager Robert Cooper have put him in the running for a national title. more...
HOUSEHOLDERS have been assured that a service to dispose of old fridges and freezers will remain free of charge. more...
THE Bishop of Ripon yesterday led hundreds of pilgrims in a prayer of thanksgiving for the re-opening of footpaths hit by foot-and-mouth disease. more...
A crackdown on benefit fraudsters is being mounted by Scarborough Borough Council because the authority is losing £1m a year. more...
STUDENT Philip Putson overcame pain to graduate from university. more...
THE theft of a horse box has been linked to two similar incidences in east Cleveland during the past year. more...
AN artistic youngster has been named the overall winner of the 2002 Community Calendar Competition, organised by 13 chemical, steel and power generating companies on Teesside. more...
A FORMER Sunday league football physiotherapist is suing a Teesside councillor for damages after an alleged assault six years ago. more...
A 25-YEAR-OLD man was lucky to escape with his life after vandals set fire to a car outside his home in the early hours of Boxing Day. more...
MORE than 100 North-East jobs have been saved after a takeover deal secured the future of electronics group Joyce Loebl. more...
CHARITY and community groups on Teesside have benefited from a £2,100 windfall from one of the area's industrial oil refineries. more...
A RETHINK on plans to close two Stockton nursing homes is to take place. more...
Police are appealing for men over six feet tall to take part in an identity parade in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, in the New Year. more...
Chris Lloyd concludes his Christmas ghost story with a brutal murder and offers a few facts that may convince you that the ghost really did exist. more...
TONY BLAIR more...
DID you see Del Boy and Rodney on television on Christmas Day? You'd be in good company if you did, because at least 20 million others were watching - a third of the entire British population. more...
FROM a small corner of the North-East a group of nuns are spreading healing across the world. The Carmelite sisters, who live in a Darlington convent, have been saying prayers for war victims who are desperately in need of solace. more...
FAR BE it from actress Anne Charleston to speak ill of the dead, but you get the feeling she's glad the producers killed off her character Madge Bishop in BBC1's soap Neighbours. more...
A rock-loving vicar, who once led a pop group, is retiring from the ministry. more...
North-East MPs from the three main parties have defended ministers' rights to keep private whether their children have had the controversial MMR vaccine. more...
A LEADING figure in the once-doomed charity Relate has hailed its "staggering turnaround" in the past year. more...
CHILDREN as young as 11 are turning to a North-East drugs helpline for advice in record numbers. more...
A CITY'S pubs and clubs have been told to turn the volume down, because of potential danger to people's hearing. more...
The Queen's Golden Jubilee next year could bring a bandstand to a North Yorkshire town more...
TEENAGER Susanna McCarthy was not supposed to spend Christmas morning in labour - but she's glad she did. more...
STORES throughout the region are bracing themselves for a record-breaking start to the sales this morning, as the great British spending spree shows no signs of slowing down. more...
RAMBLERS are stepping up a campaign for a major cash investment to be made in improving footpaths which have been condemned as among the worst in the country. more...
NEW Year celebrations could literally go with a bang in North-East households when some cans of tinned hotdogs are opened. more...
A NORTH-EAST broadcaster has made a young disabled athlete's dreams come true by giving him his first taste of fame. more...
HARDY people dusted off their Christmas cobwebs yesterday to brave the North Sea in the name of charity. more...
MOBILE phone owners are being warned to stay on their guard after a spate of thefts in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire. more...
THE torment of a former Army officer has been revealed in letters sent back to North Yorkshire from his Indian jail. more...
SCORES of rail workers in the region are picking up wages of £1,000 a day to continue track repairs during the Christmas and New Year period. more...
US forces intensified their hunt for Osama bin Laden yesterday, even as Afghanistan's interim Prime Minister declared that terrorism had been "largely" beaten in his war-ravaged country. more...
Relatives of a homeless man killed in an accident with a manoeuvring taxi have come forward. more...
A greengrocer has been threatened with court action because his traditional street touting cry "Bananas of 50p a pound" is too loud. more...
The neighbour of a disabled pensioner has described the chilling screams of the man's wife when the couple became trapped in their burning home. more...
Hunting supporters were determined to maintain their Boxing Day tradition on Wednesday despite being unable to stage their annual pursuit in normal fashion. more...
THE terrible events of September 11 of course shocked everyone, created uncertainty in financial markets and caused a surge in the price of "crisis" government bonds. more...
AT last! It is now possible to avoid the requirement to buy an annuity at the age of 75 with your pension fund. more...
THE festive period is often a starting point for making resolutions and embarking on new goals. more...
The working dog is back in demand once again as farmers re-stock following the foot-and-mouth crisis. more...
A man has been seriously injured after being struck by a car on Teesside. The 32-year-old unnamed Guisborough man sustained a fractured pelvis and knee cap when he was knocked over by a Vauxhall Corsa. more...
A blaze that ripped through a North-East pub has been blamed on arsonists. more...
FURNITURE store staff backed a pioneering foster care project with a £200 donation from their fun day. more...
CHRISTMAS Day baby Brandon Thompson arrived two weeks early but his timing couldn't have been better for his delighted family. more...
AMNESTY International campaigners and an MEP have succeeded in forcing European Union chiefs to take the first steps to end conformity branding on torture items. more...
AN animal health products co-operative has accused the European Union of dealing a further blow to the North-East's rural economy by proposing a prescription-only monopoly in animal medicines. more...
Brave schoolboy Andrew Jobling was told by doctors he would never talk or walk again after a horrific car crash. more...
SKATERS are expected to take to a synthetic ice rink at Whitby Pavilion in their droves in the run-up to the New Year. more...
A FURTHER accolade could be heading for a regeneration scheme which has already scooped several awards. more...
HOME to at least one species of rare flower, the Blue Heaps on a windy edge of County Durham is a lonely beauty spot frequented only by dog walkers and ramblers. more...
Hunt supporters were determined to maintain their Boxing Day tradition yesterday, despite being unable to stage their annual pursuit in normal fashion. more...
SPECIAL school pupils have written their own soap opera and produced a magazine. more...
A FORMER brewery site has attracted interest from developers keen to revitalise it. more...
LOTTERY cash could help to put the North-East in the swim with its first Olympic-size competition facilities. more...
HOUSEHOLDERS are being urged to add a festive touch of colour to their homes by their local council next year. more...
A desperate mother is hoping the New Year will bring her fresh hope in the search for a second heart donor to save her son's life. more...
A BRIGHTER, cleaner future is envisaged in a new "green blueprint" drawn up to improve a North-East city. more...
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