The North East | Archive | 2003 | November
Ian "The Machine" Freeman is hoping to produce more martial arts world-beaters to follow in his footsteps. more...
A GROUP at Darlington College of Technology students raised £84.13 for Children in Need by selling Pudsey Bear fairy cakes. more...
SCHOOLS in Darlington could receive more than £320,000 to help get their pupils to school safely. more...
EVERY home in Darlington can now do its bit for the environment after a recycling scheme has been extended across the town. more...
THE Art Shop in Darlington has produced a charity calendar for 2004 painted by local artists. more...
A SOLDIER battled cold and fatigue when he took part in one of the toughest patrolling challenges in the Army. more...
WORKERS have been honoured for aiding people with mental health problems gain the skills they need to lead ordinary lives. more...
PARENTS and staff were celebrating last night after their "outstanding" city centre primary school was given a reprieve. more...
A COUNCIL has announced that tenants have given overwhelming backing to plans for a company to take over the maintenance of their homes. more...
ARTISTS celebrated ten years of working in the community with a weekend-long birthday party. more...
COUNCIL chiefs in the North-East have moved to crack down on a series of malicious e-mails being sent in their name to addresses across the country. more...
POLICE are anxious to speak to a man who may have conned people in Teesside out of hundreds of pounds. more...
A NEW fast response vehicle was launched yesterday to help firefighters deal with incidents which may harm the environment. more...
A BURGLAR who raided the home of a friend was jailed for two years yesterday. more...
A FAMILY firm has got it licked when it comes to making ice cream. more...
A STUDENT who beat up a friend who offered him a bed after he had burgled a hostel for the homeless asked magistrates to sent him to prison yesterday - and got his wish. more...
A partnership was announced yesterday that could become an important fundraiser for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. more...
A HOST of communities across North Yorkshire mov-ed a step closer to securing broadband yesterday when BT announced plans to complete the roll-out of the high speed Internet. more...
ART-lovers have a chance to find out more about one of the leading French 18th Century artists on Friday. more...
A 15-year-old girl was taken to hospital after a hit-and-run accident near York. more...
CREATIVE schoolchildren have been inspired by the latest display at York Art Gallery. more...
PEOPLE in the borough of Stockton who feel they struggle with everyday literacy and numeracy are being urged to boost their basic skills. more...
PRIMARY school youngsters have been enjoying trips around the world during their break-times thanks to new playground equipment. more...
POLICE are anxious to speak to a man who may have conned people in Teesside out of hundreds of pounds. more...
STARGAZERS had the chance to meet two Russian cosmonauts. more...
DRIVERS are being warned of major road works in the Hartlepool area this weekend. more...
There was stiff competition for the post of Durham City's first official town crier. more...
A DEBT-RIDDEN woman persuaded her besotted nephew to murder her older husband so she could claim £450,000 from life insurance policies, a court was told this week. more...
THE WINNERS of a competition have seen their designs transformed into full-size decorations. more...
A DEVELOPER has pledged to maintain a college sports field in Durham for public use. more...
COMPROMISE proposals for the temporary car park on The Sands have been rejected by campaigners. more...
OFFICE and business park developer Akeler has been named as the preferred developer of the £100m Rainton Bridge South Business Park. more...
LORD Black of Crossharbour is to step down as chief executive of Hollinger International. more...
Q I am a 25-year-old entrepreneur who is planning to create an online store selling products aimed at students. I am not sure if I should concentrate on one area, opening a store near a university, or take the plunge and use the Internet to sell as widely as possible. Should I start selling via a normal retail store or start directly online? This is my first time dealing with e-commerce. more...
In recent days, both the Post Office and the fire service have been hit by unofficial industrial action, as was British Airways a couple of months ago as a result of its controversial attempt to introduce swipe cards at a number of airports. more...
As predicted, interest rates were increased by 25 basis points to 3.75 per cent at the conclusion of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee Meeting of 5th and 6th November. Tomorrow sees the eagerly awaited publication of the minutes to the meeting. This will provide us with the voting record of the nine members of the committee, and it will be interesting to see how the votes were split, if at all. more...
AT the moment, it appears that shareholders are all-powerful. more...
ICELANDIC retailer Baugur has bought the Oasis fashion chain for £152m. more...
MOBILE phone group mmO2 announced pre-tax profits yesterday for the first time since it demerged from parent company BT two years ago. more...
LOSSES at theme park operator Euro Disney have increased. more...
CONCERNED shareholders have supported moves by tour operator MyTravel to shore up its battered balance sheet. more...
ENERGY group Scottish Power will benefit by £20m a year from the early termination of electricity contracts with rival Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). more...
WORK to transform a former church into office space has been given the go-ahead. more...
Investors looking to maximise the gains of any further stockmarket rally could consider high-beta stocks. The beta value of a share is a measure of its past volatility against the average volatility of an index, such as the FTSE 100. more...
COMMERCIAL property company City and Northern has announced the completion of a 22,000sq ft industrial unit in the Team Valley Trading Estate. more...
NEWCASTLE United has taken the chill out of winter training by installing underfloor heating throughout its academy, from kitchens to physiotherapy rooms. more...
Following the success of the Catterick Village wireless broadband project, a company has been launched Internet services across North Yorkshire. Business Correspondent Jonathan Jones logged on to find out more. more...
HIGH-speed broadband Internet services could be available throughout Britain by 2005. more...
A PROFIT improvement programme has been launched to help businesses across the region transform their economic prospects. more...
Bakery chain Greggs has come a long way from its days as a family bakers in the 1930s. Business Correspondent Jonathan Jones speaks to the group's North-East managing director, Graham Randell. more...
A SERVICE established to provide practical advice to help manufacturing companies improve their productivity and competitiveness is proving a success. more...
The region's five universities are building an enviable reputation for their ability to turn academic ideas into commercial ventures. more...
Success has been a rollercoaster ride for a small company on the banks of the Tyne that's having a huge impact on the global games market. more...
MEDIA group Chrysalis saw further growth in its radio division as it reported a 46.8 per cent rise in profits to £15.5m. more...
The Prime Minister yesterday called for a renewed partnership with business after admitting that industry was ''profoundly concerned'' about the state of the transport system and had other worries over red tape and the direction of Europe. more...
JJB Sports has sold discount retailer TJ Hughes for £55.8m. more...
CIGARETTES group Imperial Tobacco posted a 40 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £898m as it boosted its UK market share to the highest for two decades. more...
A £10m boost to the British biotech industry has been announced by the Government. more...
CREATIVE schoolchildren have been inspired by the latest display at York Art Gallery. more...
FOUR North-East artists are preparing to show their work in a national exhibition. more...
Between The Sheets (ITV1): Despite the title, Kay Mellor's new series spends more time talking about what goes on in the bedroom than showing it. more...
PANTO superstar Berwick Kaler is back - and once again the dame is hoping to steal the show. more...
AMONG the mixed blessings of the vogue for kitchens visible to their customers is that they can not only see the chef ever cheerfully at work but, just possibly, fancy the checked pants off him, as well. Hot stuff, as it were. more...
GHOST SHIPS: AS a resident who objects to the concept of America's toxic waste being buried under my town, I would be grateful if Able UK could explain exactly how the inhabitants of Hartlepool would have gained from this lucrative deal. more...
She trained as a singer, but currently stars in a soap. Steve Pratt talks to Amy Nuttall about her plans for the future. more...
THERE is no reason to deny President Bush all the trappings of a state visit to our country. more...
Sir Patrick Moore talks to Steve Pratt about finding life on Mars and why his latest lecture tour may be his last. more...
Rod Stewart - The Biography by Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred (Portrait £16.99) more...
This week The Northern Echo is publishing the biography of John Burton, the man who talent-spotted Tony Blair. more...
The Darlington and Teesdale Breast Cancer Support Group provides a network of friendship and support for breast cancer patients. Women's Editor Christen Pears drops in on one of its meetings. more...
Written off by the system after failing her 11 Plus, a North-East grandmother has just been appointed a senior university lecturer after finally getting her degree. more...
You couldn't make it up: Red Cross bans Jesus from its Christmas cards and all mention of Christ from its shops. more...
AMONG the mixed blessings of the vogue for kitchens visible to their customers is that they can not only see the chef ever cheerfully at work but, just possibly, fancy the checked pants off him, as well. Hot stuff, as it were. more...
Pre-school assistant, Northallerton. £5ph, 18hrs pw, 9am to 1.30pm, Mon-Thurs. Childcare qualification or willingness to work towards NVQ/DPP in Childcare essential. Experience preferred but not essential. Ref: NOE 20470 more...
Bar staff, Chester-le-Street. £4.50ph, 13 hrs, 5 days over 7, on rota. Previous experience is preferred but not essential as training given. Ref: CHM 16408. more...
A HEALTH and safety expert has told a jury how windows at a North-East care home where a resident fell to his death should have had restricted opening. more...
THE North-East was yesterday promised a £50m windfall under Government plans to help attract new businesses. more...
A PENSIONER died following a succession of car crashes on the A1(M) after two runaway horses galloped across the busy carriageway, police said. more...
TRIALS were carried out yesterday to see how buses would manage if a town centre was pedestrianised. more...
A CAMPAIGN was launched yesterday to try to halt plans to build the world's longest rope footbridge over the River Tees. more...
THE deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown over which one of them should stand for the leadership of the Labour Party in 1994 may well have been done in Durham, according to a book published by The Northern Echo this week. more...
CANCER patients' lives are being put at risk because Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe and the US in providing vital scans, leading charities are warning. more...
Greedy solicitors have been condemned by MPs for snatching up to £8,000 intended as compensation for sick or crippled ex-miners. more...
ONE of the last two Royal Navy warships to return from the conflict in Iraq will today set sail from her North-East "home". more...
THE stronghold of native crayfish in the North-East could be under threat from the spread of the aggressive signal crayfish, Environment Agency officers have warned. more...
THE first thing they heard was the noise from three gas turbine engines, a kind of powerful drone fanned by the downwash created by the blades of the huge CH-53 Super Stallion helicopters. more...
PETER Mandelson will tomorrow give evidence before a House of Commons committee over the controversy surrounding the Ghost Ships deal. more...
SOME think the best place for George "Dubya" Bush would be at the bottom of a mine. Others would like to take him to their favourite watering hole. more...
DETECTIVES believe a breakthrough by a North-East University could be one of the most important advances in forensic science since fingerprinting. more...
AN unprecedented security operation will surround George Bush's visit to the North-East this week as police and secret service leave nothing to chance. more...
AN unprecedented security operation will surround George Bush's visit to the North-East this week as police and secret service leave nothing to chance. more...
ONE of the North-East's largest companies is at the forefront of a national campaign to improve literacy and numeracy in the workplace. more...
PUPILS from nine schools across the North-East were transported back to 1875 to hear about the lives of two railway workers and a teacher. more...
WORKERS in the North-East are paid the lowest in the country, according to a new survey. more...
THE deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown over which one of them should stand for the leadership of the Labour Party in 1994 may well have been done in Durham, according to a book published by The Northern Echo this week. more...
SOME think the best place for George "Dubya" Bush would be at the bottom of a mine. Others would like to take him to their favourite watering hole. more...
A PENSIONER died following a succession of car crashes on the A1(M) after two runaway horses galloped across the busy carriageway, police said. more...
A POLICE force is to become the first in the world to trial a James Bond type radio. more...
A HEALTH and safety expert has told a jury how windows at a North-East care home where a resident fell to his death should have had restricted opening. more...
FAMILY members yesterday paid tribute to a woman who died in a house fire at the weekend. more...
A STUDENT from the region has died after being knocked down by a police patrol car as it responded to a 999 call. more...
BOSSES at a women's prison in the North-East are celebrating a favourable inspection report in a year when prison suicides nationally have reached unprecedented levels. more...
A CAMPAIGN was launched yesterday to try to halt plans to build the world's longest rope footbridge over the River Tees. more...
A FATHER and son have gone on trial accused of falsely imprisoning a teenager and giving him an electric shock because he refused to sell drugs for them. more...
A STALKER in a pick-up truck snatched a teenage girl off the street and raped her in his home, a court was told yesterday. more...
FOCUSED Craig Liddle last night backed new skipper Neil Maddison to help Darlington erase the threat of relegation. more...
SUNDERLAND outcast Michael Reddy last night revealed he wants to make his loan move to Sheffield Wednesday permanent. more...
In passing, no more, Friday's column recalled attempts in September 1981 to get George Best to play in Jim Platt's testimonial match at Middlesbrough. more...
FRANCK QUEUDRUE escaped a three-match ban yesterday when an FA disciplinary commission cleared the Middlesbrough defender of "violent behaviour''. more...
SUNDERLAND outcast Michael Reddy last night revealed he wants to make his loan move to Sheffield Wednesday permanent. more...
In passing, no more, Friday's column recalled attempts in September 1981 to get George Best to play in Jim Platt's testimonial match at Middlesbrough. more...
NEWCASTLE United are threatening to sabotage Middlesbrough's hopes of landing Chelsea striker Eidur Gudjohnsen. more...
DESPITE his relative inexperience, Barcham Again (1.10) makes masses of appeal on his first try over fences at Towcester today. more...
FOCUSED Craig Liddle last night backed new skipper Neil Maddison to help Darlington erase the threat of relegation. more...
NEWCASTLE United are threatening to sabotage Middlesbrough's hopes of landing Chelsea striker Eidur Gudjohnsen. more...
TEENAGE striker Jack Wilkinson is in line to keep his place in the Hartlepool United side after Saturday's match-winning heroics. more...
A mother whose daughter plunged to her death from a cliff went ahead with an 18th birthday party in her memory yesterday. more...
A FIRM has been fined £15,000 for an accident that left a worker disabled. more...
POLICE in Darlington are appealing for information about the theft of a distinctive silver sports motorcycle. more...
BISHOP Auckland MP Derek Foster has attended court to raise the profile of a service for witnesses and victims of crime. more...
A FOOTBALL club has called an emergency meeting with brewery bosses to try to save a village social club. more...
PRIMARY school pupils and their parents got a taste of college life by taking part in an environmental course. more...
A VILLAGE is hoping to provide a wide variety of activities and illuminations for Christmas. more...
AN RAF squadron leader is to defend the need for low-flying jets in Teesdale after protests. more...
DETECTIVES believe a breakthrough by a North-East University could be one of the most important advances in forensic science since fingerprinting. more...
GEOLOGISTS believe it could be weeks before the results of a survey will find the cause of cracks under the surface of a busy stretch of road in the North-East. more...
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