The North East | Archive | 2003 | September
YOUNG artists have produced two feathered friends to brighten up their school. more...
FIELD WALK: A 3.5 mile walk, skirting Waldridge Fell, will leave the Plawsworth and Kibblesworth Community Centre at 11am, on Sunday. more...
ONE of the region's best-loved comics is lifting the lid on his 50-year career, in a new book. more...
A LEISURE centre due to open this year is facing a 12- month delay, following a string of problems at the site. more...
CHAMPION leek growers were rewarded for their efforts at an annual show in Darlington yesterday. more...
PEOPLE on a Darlington estate have been reassured that a specialist police unit will be deployed to help them tackle the problem of anti-social youths. more...
A DARLINGTON student has followed in the footsteps of his older sister by winning a trophy for the best GCSE grades in his year. more...
GIFTS galore will be on sale at a charity Christmas craft fair in Darlington next month. more...
CHILDCARE in Darlington is poised to receive a big boost with the opening of a 41-place nursery. more...
A YOUNG footballer will travel to the US next month to take up a university sports scholarship, thanks to local businesses. more...
SHOPS and businesses committed to making their premises accessible to disabled people could be in line for an award. more...
A PARKING scheme for people living near Darlington Football Club's stadium has been hailed a success. more...
FIRE destroyed a metal silo at a chipboard factory in Shildon yesterday. more...
STUDENTS from Darlington College of Technology have won prizes in an art and photography competition. more...
WALKERS are being helped to get out into the County Durham countryside over the next few months. more...
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is offering a basketball course for girls, aged 12 to 14, with qualified coaching at Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough, every Wednesday, from 5pm to 6pm, until November 26. more...
YOUNG Nerhys Clayphan heard Jason Shipman, of the Anmod Dracan Medieval Re-enactment Society, tells her a story at Margrove Heritage Centre yesterday. more...
A SPECIAL church service was held yesterday for animals from around east Cleveland. more...
SOMETHING fishy is going on in the kitchens of a North Yorkshire school - and budding chefs and a well-known charity both stand to benefit. more...
WORK by Freud has been torn to shreds, thrown out of a car travelling at 90mph while words describing the performance have been scattered on the floor of an old North Yorkshire factory - all in the name of art. more...
seven new recruits have been getting used to life at a Dales school since the new academic year got under way - and that's only among the staff. more...
A COUNCIL is reviewing its policy on photography at its swimming pools, in light of new mobile phone technology. more...
A series of exhibitions to explain how health chiefs plan to spend £18m on a new-look Friarage Hospital, at Northallerton, starts this week. more...
A WOMEN'S health awareness day will take place next week. more...
A NEW way of offering crime prevention advice and support to people has been hailed a success. more...
A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE has pledged to fund up to two sixth form science scholarships a year at a North-East school. more...
THE first ever countryside festival in Hartlepool was held yesterday. more...
PEOPLE in Hartlepool are being urged to demonstrate their commitment to the environment by supporting efforts to promote and protect a local wildlife haven. more...
A PRIMARY school in Billingham has been found to be making good progress following an Ofsted report. more...
A COUNCIL has given permission for an incinerator to burn large animal carcasses. more...
AN MP has won his bid for an investigation into the plans of steel maker Corus. more...
A MOTHER is campaigning for the flats where her 17-year-old son died of stab wounds to be pulled down. more...
A THIEF has been targeting wedding guests at a Guisborough church. more...
RESIDENTS who are being terrorised by gangs on a Guisborough estate are appealing for action to stop their lives from being made a misery. more...
A US court will decide this week if controversial plans to dispose of condemned US warships in a North-East yard can go ahead. more...
AN entrepreneur invited the man who inspired him to succeed to open his latest venture. more...
A black-tie dinner in Ripon Cathedral was such a success it could lead to the building being used for more corporate functions. more...
BUILDING firms are being urged to attend a series of breakfast seminars to find out about grants for businesses improvement. more...
A NORTH-EAST arts centre which made headlines more for the debts it ran up than the productions it staged has begun a new era. more...
The Deal (C4) Byron (BBC2): Monarch Of The Glen (BBC1): The Deal might well have been subtitled When Tony Met Gordon. more...
Amerigo de Santis was a member of the paparazzi when it was fairly honourable trade in the 1950s and 1960s. more...
REGIONAL GOVERNMENT: IT is interesting, not to say ominous, that the site of a proposed regional government is being discussed without there being a convincing case put for its institution, or indeed a vote for it as yet. more...
We lock more children up than any other country in Europe, but what good does it do them? more...
TONY Blair embarks on a crucial conference week with criticism over his handling of the war in Iraq ringing in his ears and suggestions from perilously close to home that his Government has lost its way. more...
IT was a bad week to be a woman last week. more...
The Deal (C4) Byron (BBC2): Monarch Of The Glen (BBC1): The Deal might well have been subtitled When Tony Met Gordon. more...
THE World Onion Growing championships has been won by Billy Lamb - for the sixth year running. more...
A 75-YEAR-OLD priest appeared in court today charged with four counts of indecent assault on boys. more...
MYSTERY surrounds a drop in the number of seals at a North colony. more...
VILLAGERS living in the shadow of a redundant cement works are calling it for it to be demolished. more...
THE Government has rejected calls for stringent new regulations on carbon monoxide checks in a bid to avoid more fatalities this winter. more...
A HUSH fell over a small Northvillage shortly after 10pm on Saturday. more...
ANOTHER biker died and two more were injured as accidents involving motorcyclists continued on North Yorkshire's roads over the weekend. more...
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a bus stop accident left a pensioner dead and another man injured. more...
A MAN who has helped shape the Yorkshire Agricultural Society over the past 20 years has been appointed its president. more...
THE Masham Sheep Fair consigned the dark days of the foot-and-mouth crisis to history over the weekend with a successful two-day event blessed with warm sunshine. more...
A 13-year-old girl who was badly injured in a holiday moped accident on the Greek isle of Kos has been flown back home. more...
THE son of North-East comedy legend Bobby Thompson has been branded a drunken pest. more...
A NORTH-EAST arts centre which made headlines more for the debts it ran up than the productions it staged has begun a new era. more...
FAVOURITES from the golden age of British toy production feature on the latest set of stamps from Royal Mail. more...
PRIME Minister Tony Blair was facing potentially his toughest week in politics last night as Labour's popularity slumped to its lowest under his leadership. more...
THE British Library last night denied misleading campaigners fighting for the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels after it emerged hundreds of copies were for sale on the Internet. more...
THE British Library last night denied misleading campaigners fighting for the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels after it emerged hundreds of copies were for sale on the Internet. more...
BUSINESSMEN have been urged to ditch their broad accents if they want to be successful. more...
A KEY witness in the death of a North-East airman deliberately exposed to nerve agents has broken his 50-year silence. more...
Big Brother star Jonny Regan went back to see his old workmates - and also to get his kit off. more...
Deputy District Judge David Messenger, 49, was today convicted by Selby magistrates of being drunk and disorderly in a kebab shop in Scarborough. more...
TRADITIONAL Scout camps consisted of sing-songs and frying sausages on the campfire. more...
COLLECTORS of Moorcroft pottery gathered at a stately home at the weekend. more...
A BELEAGUERED Tony Blair received a boost last night when he escaped a bloody nose in Bournemouth from delegates angry over the war in Iraq. more...
Ferryhill Athletic celebrated winning their first game of the season and did so with some style when they put five goals past Barnard Castle Glaxo who managed just a couple in reply. more...
NEALE Cooper has lodged an appeal against Chris Westwood's dismissal in last week's Carling Cup game with West Brom. more...
COUNT on Kozando (3.15) to land the £20,000 Famous Grouse Nursery at Hamilton Park today. more...
WIth the new regime, which had saved the club from bankruptcy, firmly installed, big things were expected of Yorkshire in 2003. But the long, hot summer produced a damp squib rather than a firecracker as far as results and performances were concerned. more...
MORE than four years after arriving from Everton, John Oster is finally starting to repay some of the £1m Sunderland splashed out for his services. more...
Darlington manager Mick Tait last night heaped praise on Ian Clark after the winger made the most of his recent first-team opportunities. more...
Michael Schumacher is on the verge of a record-breaking sixth World Championship after triumphing in a wet-and-wild United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis last night. more...
NOT even Mick Tait could have contemplated four weeks ago that he would be one of the leading contenders for the Manager of the Month award. more...
IN SEPTEMBER 1997 Hartlepool United were trundling along in the slow lane. more...
TWO resounding wins have put Blaydon top of National Three North with Tynedale in second place. more...
SWITCHING allegiances is going to be easy for Sunderland new-boy Tommy Smith. more...
GEORGE Reynolds can rest easy. Word will not be spreading like wildfire round Darlington that rugby is the game to watch after the first national league derby. more...
A TRANSPORT worker, who gets free travel to work, has vowed to learn to drive after winning an £8,000 car. more...
VISITORS to a community drop-in centre were happy to sit down with a coffee to do their bit towards the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. more...
THIEVES who stole a ten-year-old's bicycle less than a week after his mother died are being urged to return it. more...
A NURSERY worker has been commended after completing a customised training course for special needs education. more...
A NEWTON Aycliffe student who has won a national award said he hopes to use it to further his community work. more...
THE search is on for teenagers to join the ranks of a lifesaving group. more...
VILLAGE children have been given a safe place to play in a £250,000 community park they helped to design. more...
YOUNGSTERS have made an impassioned plea to traders to back their campaign to build a cinema. more...
FIRE destroyed a metal silo at a chipboard factory in Shildon yesterday. more...
A MOTIVATIONAL expert is to work with students to encourage them to aim higher. more...
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