The North East | Archive | 2003 | April
SURELY it must have been stage-managed. The Boat Race and a Grand Prix could not possibly have upstaged the Grand National without outside interference. more...
MIKE Newell yesterday released his first batch of players from Victoria Park. more...
Darlington midfielder Paul Campbell has admitted his frustration at the lack of first-team opportunities this season - but insists he is happy to fight for his place. more...
THE Durham Cup final will be put back 24 hours to Sunday, April 27 unless Blaydon win their National Three North match at Tynedale tomorrow. more...
Eric Alston has already been on the mark with Piccled and Johnston's Diamond in sprints in the first few weeks of the turf season. more...
SUNDERLAND manager Mick McCarthy yesterday gathered his players around him to remind them that swingeing job cuts at the club are a direct result of their failings this season. more...
MAGPIES' midfielder Gary Speed believes Newcastle United have banished the fear factor ahead of their biggest Premiership game of the season at home to Manchester United tomorrow. more...
MIDDLESBROUGH have warned they won't be held to ransom by European champions Real Madrid in pursuit of a permanent deal for Geremi. more...
SECURITY cameras are going up in a £1.4m town park that is being targeted by vandals. more...
SOPHISTICATED cannabis growing farms have been found in police raids on two homes. more...
A DARLINGTON schoolgirl has gained four regional titles in the recent cross-country season. more...
LONGFIELD School has clarified its position over the sale of playing fields at the site. more...
A DARLINGTON headteacher is in the running for an award for his leadership skills. more...
VILLAGERS are celebrating after raising enough cash for a new community play area. more...
A NORTH-EAST whistle and trolley bus plaque have been sold at one of the region's auction houses. more...
A GOVERNMENT grant of £89,000 is helping to boost the performance of Darlington Borough Council's planning team. more...
THE public are to be consulted on how best to develop a strategy to address the needs of young people in Newton Aycliffe. more...
COUNCIL officials have said they are expecting protests against plans for 32 flats to be built in Darlington. more...
OLDER people are being invited to have a check-up at a health advice drop-in centre. more...
A NETWORK of television monitors will keep the public informed about community safety and crime-fighting initiatives in their area. more...
STUDENTS at Durham and Houghall Community College, in Peterlee, were stunned when rock band Wheatus performed as part of the college's music festival. more...
CHILDREN were brim-full of ideas during an Easter bonnet contest, creating everything from Ascot-style creations to top hats with rabbit ears. more...
A MAN had to be taken to hospital with minor injuries after he lost control of his car and crashed into a lamp-post on Port Clarence Road, High Clarence, at about 4am yesterday. more...
FURTHER investigation into a proposed North-East animal incinerator has been recommended following residents' safety concerns. more...
CHILDREN are being invited to think of a name and design a logo and badge for a nature reserve in Guisborough. more...
ALMOST £7m will be given to communities across east Cleveland during the next three years, thanks to Government grants. more...
businesses are being invited to join a partnership aimed at helping fund one of Yorkshire's air ambulances. more...
PLANS for gas exploration under part of the North York Moors have been criticised by the Ramblers Association. more...
A RICHMOND museum is hoping to attract children through its doors during the Easter holiday by offering them free chocolate eggs if they can crack a puzzle that takes them into every corner of the building. more...
A ONCE-thriving theatre is now beyond repair, say engineers who have carried out a survey on what remains of the listed building. more...
POLICE have been baffled by the theft of a family's pet lurcher from its kennel at a farm in Arkengarthdale. more...
S CLUB will be hoping to make a splash at the Scarborough Sea Life Centre from today, but visitors should not expect them to sing a note. more...
THREE talented teenagers have received a cash boost from Richmondshire District Council to help further their careers in sport and the arts. more...
COUNCIL chiefs in Hambleton are getting tough on householders who send contaminated waste to compost sites. more...
THE family of a woman, whose body was found in January have expressed their thanks to the team who helped in the search. more...
CHILDREN with an eye for modern car design will be given the recognition they deserve at a ceremony in Richmond this weekend. more...
POLICE have praised school bus operators in the York area following spot checks carried out on their vehicles. more...
A VETERAN campaigner, who has consistently opposed Leyburn Town Council's acquisition of Thornborough Hall, says a letter from the District Auditor exonerates him from allegations that his crusade has cost taxpayers thousands of pounds. more...
A MAN had to be taken to hospital with minor injuries after he lost control of his car and crashed into a lamp-post on Port Clarence Road, High Clarence, at about 4am yesterday. more...
UNION chiefs are urging Middlesbrough Council employees to join a campaign for equal pay by attending a public meeting. more...
CHILDREN can take part in a programme of activities at a Hartlepool sports centre over the Easter holidays. more...
A HIGH street store has won an award for the help it offers to blind and visually impaired shoppers. more...
A RECENTLY revamped Victorian park is hosting an Easter party. more...
FOLLOWING years of unemployment, a Hartlepool man has gone from being king of the karaoke to a professional singer. more...
THE People's Centre, Hartlepool, is holding an Easter fair tomorrow. more...
VOTERS in Stockton are urged to watch out for a special delivery on Sunday. more...
WOMEN who deliver meals to elderly people yesterday held a Mad Hatter's tea party so they could raise money for charity. more...
THE winner of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's first postal election is Ms Dynamite. more...
A GROUP of residents is asking Hartlepool Borough Council to consider providing parking spaces for them next to their houses. more...
EIGHT people are packing their bags ready to take up the housing offer of a lifetime. more...
THE story of legendary smuggler John Andrew of Saltburn is being told once again in a well-loved museum. more...
TRANSPORT company boss Peter Cook has taken up an historical ceremonial role to add to his busy workload in the coming year. more...
THERE will be 151 candidates contesting 59 seats in 22 wards in Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's first postal ballot. more...
THE creation of at least 1,000 new jobs is being pledged in work hungry East Cleveland. more...
A DRIVER has tried to entice an eight-year-old boy into his car as he was leaving his village school at home time. more...
LEADING members of Durham County Council could get inflation-busting pay rises of up to £6,000. more...
THE life of the generation of people born around 1900 - complete with two world wars, a great depression and huge advances in technology - has been depicted in a new exhibition. more...
A YOUNG man got a birthday present he will never forget - a baby daughter. more...
THE body of Royal Marine Christopher Maddison, a former pupil of Laurence Jackson School in Guisborough, was flown back to Britain this week. more...
BETH Jeffrey had no idea that she would find the job of her dreams when she called in to ask art gallery owners if they would display some of her drawings. more...
A SECOND World War Royal Air Force man has finally received a service medal for his exploits - 58 years after the end of the war. more...
FIRE services in Derwentside are being stretched to breaking point, with officers forced to deal with hundreds of arson attacks. more...
A LITTLE girl with leukaemia had hopes of a dream holiday nearly dashed when a holiday company that had pledged to raise money for her disappeared. more...
A MULTI-MILLION pound public private partnership is to build five new schools on Teesside. more...
A SCHOOL cricket team is celebrating its successful achievement at a regional tournament. more...
A SERGEANT from Guisborough is leading a team of Army recruiters from the Green Howards. more...
HUNDREDS of thousands of used stamps will help a hospice to continue its vital work. more...
CANDIDATES are gearing up to fight for 51 places on Derwentside District Council, in the local elections on May 1. more...
PUPILS at a Chester-le-Street school are being awarded prizes for their hard work. more...
BRITISH soldiers fighting in Iraq have issued a plea to their County Durham relatives to send them basic essentials such as toilet roll and painkillers. more...
THE nominations are now in for Chester-le-Street District Council's forthcoming elections. more...
A SECONDARY school will open its doors to the whole community after a multi-million pound revamp to bring it into the 21st century. more...
SIXTH formers who passed their exams with flying colours and found time to help in their community have received an award. more...
A TEACHER who introduced a romantic English custom to German youngsters is to be honoured. more...
A SCHOOL has staged its own Popstars competition to find a budding star among its ranks. more...
THE campaign that will urge referendum backing for a North-East Assembly will be based in Durham City. more...
ALMOST £7m will be injected into communities across east Cleveland over the next three years thanks to Government grants. more...
A HUGE wave of protest is expected to take place later this month when steelworkers will demonstrate over the threat of redundancy which is hanging over them. more...
TRANSPORT company boss Peter Cook has taken up an historical ceremonial role to add to his busy workload in the coming year. more...
TRANSPORT company boss Peter Cook has taken up an historical ceremonial role to add to his busy workload in the coming year. more...
A WOMAN involved in a number of international adoption disputes once worked in the North-East as a council social worker - despite having no relevant qualifications. more...
LEADING members of Durham County Council could get inflation-busting pay rises of up to £6,000. more...
BANK worker Denise Lee has been praised for her part in raising more than £50,000 for charity. more...
THE company behind the Newcastle Falcons stadium has fought through difficult trading conditions to win back lost trade. more...
AS many as 800 workers could lose their jobs after furniture group Silentnight unveiled plans to close two factories and restructure another two. more...
HOUSEBUILDER Bellway was yesterday preparing investors for another record year following the news that interim pre-tax profits had surged 46 per cent to £57.1m. more...
BREWER Scottish and Newcastle has ended an 11-month search for a chief executive to take over from Sir Brian Stewart. more...
THOUSANDS of homes will be built in a £300m investment which could revolutionise the rented housing sector in the North-East. more...
THE company that created Dolly the cloned sheep has completed its withdrawal from the research for which it became famous to concentrate on more profitable markets. more...
MILLIONS of pounds of investment and hundreds of jobs are about to come to the region thanks to one of the most crucial advances in Teesside International Airport's history. more...
THE North-East construction industry has been boosted by a grant of more than £900,000 from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). more...
Bald (C4) A busy night on the telly, Tuesday. The start of a new series with people agonising about being 40 (been there, done that), and another about discarding First Wives (still got the original, no interest there). All of which meant a programme close to my heart - head, actually - was squeezed out of yesterday's column. more...
Once upon a time Albert Square was the most dangerous place in Soapland as the Mitchell brothers carved out a Kray-like criminal kingdom. more...
Extraordinary People (five); The Biggest Women In Britain (ITV1); Servants (BBC1) Somewhere between advance publicity and screening, Sharon Parker changed from The Women With No Brain to The Women With An Extraordinary Brain. more...
Multiple sclerosis is not an elderly person's disease. more...
IT is bitterly ironic that Steve Dayman's first reaction was relief when doctors said his son had meningitis. more...
SADDAM Hussein's regime may have disintegrated, but the Coalition Forces still face serious military and political dangers. more...
DEVIL MAY CRY 2, Format: PS2, Publisher: Capcom more...
THE Northern Echo has re-launched its online health website, Health Spectrum. more...
When size really is everything more...
IT is, quite simply, a book lover's heaven. more...
Scenes of liberation could soon give way to anger and distrust if the Iraqi people do not play a real role in rebuildng their country. more...
CORUS DIRECTORS: DISGUSTING and inappropriate as they are, the huge bonuses Corus bosses intend awarding themselves are no big deal. more...
THE Millionaire trial that has been taking centre stage at Southwark Crown Court has provided some light relief over recent weeks but I am at a loss as to why the public should be footing the bill. more...
DEVIL MAY CRY 2, Format: PS2, Publisher: Capcom more...
THE long-awaited inquiry into the Richard Neale scandal will get under way next month, it was revealed last night. more...
TRANSPORT company boss Peter Cook has added an extra duty to his busy workload for the next year. more...
POLICE are investigating a nationwide paedophile ring of scoutmasters after a North-East man was jailed for 11 years for abusing youngsters in his care. more...
FRESH doubts emerged last night over Zimbabwe's participation in the first Test cricket match to be staged in the North-East. more...
RESIDENTS of Tyneside and Wearside are to get six new fire stations, a new brigade headquarters and new technical services centre. more...
FURTHER investigation into a proposed North-East animal incinerator has been recommended following residents' safety concerns. more...
HUNDREDS of North-East children are to take part in a pioneering study into how music can improve learning. more...
THE Millionaire trial that has been taking centre stage at Southwark Crown Court has provided some light relief over recent weeks but I am at a loss as to why the public should be footing the bill. more...
A PROGRAMME of headline acts has been announced for a music festival in York. more...
IT girl Tara Palmer-Tompkinson kicked up a fuss in a sports store yesterday - and ended up getting the boot. more...
VOTERS in Stockton are urged to watch out for a special delivery on Sunday. more...
PLANS to build a new link road beside what is believed to be the world's oldest railway booking office have provoked anger. more...
AN exhibition is being launched which shows the more domestic side of the once-feared Vikings. more...
GLAMOUR girl Kelly Brook is bringing her talents to the North-East in the latest chapter of her blossoming acting career. more...
A DEMONSTRATION of the ancient art of horse-logging was revived for aspiring forestry workers this week. more...
ABOUT 70 North-East teenagers have flown to Hungary for a tri-nation challenge against their hosts and youngsters from France. more...
A woman who killed her father and torched his home in the deluded belief that he had caused her mother's death, has failed to have her life sentence overturned. more...
IT travelled at little more than a snail's pace, cumbersomely winding its way through the moors before tentatively venturing on to the Great North Road. more...
A FORMER town councillor at the centre of a 35-hour siege will not face charges. more...
A MAN has reported to police after a grieving family appealed to a car driver involved in a hit-and-run to step forward. more...
A PENSIONER who died after being found unconscious with his bicycle by the side of a road could have been the victim of a hit and run. more...
THE sites of some of the region's fiercest battles are being highlighted for historians and visitors alike. more...
AN elderly woman died when the car she was travelling in collided with a articulated lorry parked in a lay-by on the A19 yesterday. more...
A 60-year-old man died in a fire which swept through his home in Lindale Road, Fenham, Newcastle, at 7pm on Thursday. more...
THE region's newest shopping development opened yesterday, with the help of celebrities - both real and imitation. more...
THE true cost of war will be brought home to a Dales market town today when it witnesses the funeral of a Royal Marine who was among the first casualties of the fighting in Iraq. more...
A WOMAN inmate with a penchant for punching prison staff was yesterday sentenced to an extra six months behind bars for her latest attack. more...
A MAN faces a substantial jail sentence after taking part in a street stabbing. more...
WE wish to correct any false impression given by a report we published on Wednesday, April 2, under the headline "Abattoir meat was falsely labelled". This reported a court case involving Stockton Butchers Slaughtering Company Limited. more...
ONE of the world's rarest cars, which spent part of its life as a hen house, was back on the streets of the North-East yesterday. more...
A MAN who was involved in the violent build-up to the murder of an asylum seeker was praised by a judge yesterday. more...
MORE than 500 telephone engineers in the North-East are expected to take part in a 24-hour strike from midnight on Sunday over a controversial new performance bonus system. more...
ANIMALS and birds of the North-East will be in full focus at a nature exhibition on Teesside. more...
A GROUP of 50 North-East charities have received an Easter present - a share of £400,870 from a national foundation. more...
THE father of a North soldier serving in Iraq welcomed yesterday's Government announcement that families will now be able to send packages free of charge to their loved ones. more...
A NURSERY school's pupils have been devastated by the vandalism of garden features they spent hours creating. more...
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SURELY it must have been stage-managed. The Boat Race and a Grand Prix could not possibly have upstaged the Grand National without outside interference. more...
Offers of help are still coming through for a little girl with leukaemia, whose chance to go on a dream holiday were nearly dashed. more...
Many people paid their last respects today to Royal Marine Captain Philip Guy who died at the beginning of the Iraq war in a helicopter crash in Kuwait. more...
Other content from the Darlington & Stockton Times includes : more...
Police are warning parents to be extra vigilant after a man attempted to abduct a young girl. more...
Safety measures are to be taken on an accident blackspot, following yet another smash. more...
People on sick leave who are eager to get back to work are being urged to contact researchers. more...
The family of murdered North-East student Sara Cameron say they cannot get on with their lives while her killer is still at large. more...
The race by North-East scientists to develop a completely new type of cancer treatment has received an important boost. more...
THE company behind the Newcastle Falcons stadium has fought through difficult trading conditions to win back lost trade. more...
A 60-year-old man died in a fire which swept through his home in Lindale Road, Fenham, Newcastle, at 7pm on Thursday. more...
A MAN was airlifted to hospital with neck and back injuries when his car overturned near Sedgefield village. more...
AYCLIFFE Village residents are being urged to do their bit ahead of a visit by Northumbria in Bloom judges next week. more...
AN operation to remove unlicensed vehicles from the streets of south Durham has been hailed a great success. more...
VOLUNTEERS of all ages have painted a floral mural on a wall in Fishburn as part of their efforts to brighten up the village. more...
A SIGN language teacher has taken up a study support residency at a Newton Aycliffe school. more...
THE public are to be consulted on how best to develop a strategy to address the needs of young people in Newton Aycliffe. more...
TRIBUTE bands from around the world will be descending on the North-East later this year for a music weekend. more...
A WALL of decorative ceramic tiles has been unveiled at a Ferryhill school. more...
A NEWTON Aycliffe care centre has started running classes on the ancient Chinese art of tai chi. more...
DOG owners are being urged to stop using playing fields which are to be transformed into a town park. more...
TRIMDON schoolboy Timothy Jasper is celebrating after winning a national story writing competition. more...
CLASS REUNION: The Class of 1973 at Washington School is holding a reunion on Saturday, April 20. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Carol Holbrow (nee Teasdale) on 0191-417 0182. more...
THOUSANDS of homes will be built in a £300m investment which could revolutionise the rented housing sector in the North-East. more...
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