The North East | Archive | 2003 | November
A PROGRAMME of winter walks across north-west Durham has been launched. more...
EMPLOYERS are invited to learn about their responsibilities under new disability legislation and to celebrate the European Year of Disabled People. more...
A KNIFE-CARRYING heroin addict tried to rob a woman and a teenager to pay for his next fix, a court was told. more...
IT is a close friendship that has survived a world war and distance over nearly 70 years. more...
TWO Darlington post offices are to be scrapped next month, to the anger of campaigners who fear pensioners will lose a community lifeline. more...
A WOMAN described a bus collision in Darlington as a horrific ordeal. more...
A FATHER had his eight-month-old daughter with him in a pushchair when he was arrested in a town centre for being drunk, a court was told yesterday. more...
THE Mayor of Durham and the city's MP helped to create a Field of Hope in Durham yesterday. more...
LOW energy light bulbs are being given away to help the fight against burglaries. more...
A MAN was hit by a car as he got out of a taxi following a night out, a court was told. more...
DETECTIVES are hunting a gang of bogus officials who targeted three elderly women. more...
FORMER pupils of a village secondary school renewed acquaintances after absences of up to 50 years. more...
Outdoor and indoor sport facilities for east Cleveland were unveiled at a school in Guisborough yesterday. more...
FIRE chiefs are working with children in a bid to remove Teesside from the top of the UK league table for arson attacks. more...
STUDENTS yesterday remembered those who went off to fight for their country in the two world wars. more...
PUPILS were yesterday presented with a healthy school award by Langbaurgh Primary Care Trust. more...
THIS year's York Festival of Remembrance could have been the last following the planned sale of the Barbican Centre. more...
MORE than 60,000 teenagers in North Yorkshire are to benefit from a project designed to ease problems associated with growing up. more...
AN array of goodies are to be auctioned when a Northallerton school holds a fundraising event. more...
RIPON Cathedral is to host a Christmas Gift and Food Festival to raise money for charity. more...
DIALYSIS patients are getting to grips with technology by using their regular sessions to receive computer training. more...
CHESS clubs at two Eaglescliffe schools are making the right moves thanks to a £22,000 grant. more...
A NIGHT of fun and dancing is being held to raise money for the NSPCC in the Riverside Suite at Middlesbrough Football Club. more...
Business and shop owners in Hartlepool are being asked to give their views on proposals to promote growth. more...
FEARS that a private school could abandon a community persuaded councillors yesterday to approve its controversial building plans. more...
ELECTRONICS and ceramics group Cookson continued its revival by returning to the black in the third quarter of its financial year. more...
British Airways, which has already borne the brunt of the Iraq war and the Sars crisis, is set for a fivefold dive in profits after another string of setbacks in the second quarter - traditionally its strongest. more...
TRADE and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has been handed a report outlining a raft of conditions required as part of the merger of ITV companies Granada and Carlton. more...
REGIONAL development agency One NorthEast has appointed a new director of communications. more...
A CLUTCH of lenders announced they were raising their mortgage rates in the wake of the Bank of England's decision to increase the cost of borrowing. more...
A NIGHTCLUB toilet attendant who was assaulted by Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy has launched a civil action against the star. more...
After the "thunder and light" of Newsnight, journalist Jeremy Vine may have been forgiven for finding presenting the former Jimmy Young radio show a bit tame. But, with an audience of over five million, Vine's far from withering more...
THE sweet taste of success is beckoning for a North-East performer, thanks to the hit ITV1 show Pop Idol. more...
FIVE Things I Hate About You (I think my wife could probably triple that number), What Not To Wear - The Tribes Of Man and The Million Pound Property Experiment were a Wednesday night triple whammy on BBC2 which successfully fuelled the battle of the sexes. more...
It was a long way from the purple pageantry of two weeks earlier, the knock three times rigmarole of his enthronement in Durham Cathedral. Now the new bishop was at Hamsterley parish church - admitted without obstruction, greeted informally and bearing nothing more than a very small attache case in which other men might have kept their cheese and pickle sandwiches. more...
The new bishop of Durham began his parish ministry with a fast track anecdote about go-karts - and a shield against misquotation. more...
MY young daughter came running in this week and said we were very naughty people because we weren't remembering Guy Fawkes. more...
Dave Horsley and family go afloat on their first narrowboat holiday and find excitement, adventure, peace and tranquillity all rolled into one. more...
PUMPKINS are really cheap at the moment. They appear in the shops a week before Halloween at an extortionate price, and then immediately after the 31st go straight into the bargain bucket. They may be on sale for another week at the most and then won't be around for another year. more...
GHOST SHIPS: THE recycling of the redundant American ships is business, and who in the world better to deal with it properly than our British experts? more...
IF brooding and sulking were international sports, Gordon Brown would win many gold medals. more...
The Prince of Wales went on the offensive with his denial of allegations made by a former sewrvant, but has his damage limitation done more harm than good? Christen Pears reports more...
PUMPKINS are really cheap at the moment. They appear in the shops a week before Halloween at an extortionate price, and then immediately after the 31st go straight into the bargain bucket. They may be on sale for another week at the most and then won't be around for another year. more...
A NIGHTCLUB toilet attendant who was assaulted by Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy has launched a civil action against the star. more...
A ROYAL Navy ship built in the North-East returns to renew affiliations with the region this weekend. more...
TWO ladies with an historic link to a 172-year-old bridge played a special role when it re-opened yesterday after a £100,000 overhaul. more...
YESTERDAY, postman Nigel Bolton was just an ordinary man doing an ordinary job in an ordinary town. more...
ONE of the most senior figures in the region's health service has spoken out about the abolition of health watchdogs. more...
YOUNG people in County Durham who have shown initiative in setting up projects for their peers are to be honoured next week. more...
SHOPPERS were surprised by an early sighting of Santa yesterday, resplendent in his traditional red and white costume. more...
SHOPPERS were surprised by an early sighting of Santa yesterday, resplendent in his traditional red and white costume. more...
BIG-hearted Andrew Boldison is preparing to give his sister the greatest gift of all. more...
Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were probably suffocated before their bodies were dumped in a remote ditch and later set on fire, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. more...
THE first two toxic ships on their way to the North-East will be allowed to dock before being forced to return to the US, the Environment Secretary said last night. more...
A FATHER-OF-TWO, who died after falling into a storage silo at a chipboard plant, was missing for several hours before his body was found, an inquest heard yesterday. more...
THE first two toxic ships on their way to the North-East will be allowed to dock before being forced to return to the US, the Environment Secretary said last night. more...
YESTERDAY, postman Nigel Bolton was just an ordinary man doing an ordinary job in an ordinary town. more...
A MODERN landmark which will provide a facility for new businesses to grow is likely to be built on a North-East industrial park. more...
THIS year's Remembrance Day ceremonies will have a special significance for a North-East family whose thoughts will be thousands of miles away in the hills of Burma. more...
TWO men were jailed yesterday for a petrol bomb attack on a seaside pizza shop run by Iraqis and asylum seekers. more...
ONE of the biggest toy auctioneers in the world is to make the North-East its full-time home. more...
WRITER Colin Teevan has been named as the new North-East Literary Fellow at Durham and Newcastle universities. more...
THE most northerly surviving villa and complex in the Roman empire will be open to the public for the first time today. more...
Mick Tait could not resist asking where exactly Hornchurch was on hearing the FA Cup draw a fortnight ago. more...
STEVE McCLAREN is on the look out for a new striker as he tries to find a solution to Middlesbrough's scoring problems. more...
JUST over a decade ago Andy Linighan carved his name into FA Cup history by grabbing a late winner for Arsenal in the 1993 Final. more...
STEVE McCLAREN is on the look out for a new striker as he tries to find a solution to Middlesbrough's scoring problems. more...
NEVER mind Shildon and the first round of the FA Cup, Lee Ellison could have had it all. more...
OUTSIDERS have a good record in the November Handicap, so the fact that Nuit Sombre (3.15) isn't among the market leaders should not put punters off backing Mark Johnston's three-year-old. more...
FOR a manager whose side's FA Cup aspirations rarely extend beyond the first round proper, Harry Dunn's respect for that most famous of competitions would put many of his more illustrious colleagues to shame. more...
NEWCASTLE Falcons will be pressing for players to be allowed dual registration after current regulations left Martin Shaw without a game this weekend. more...
IF Sir Bobby Robson needs any reminding of the financial chasm that divides the Premiership's haves and have-nots, he has only to cast an envious glance at the Chelsea team tomorrow. more...
NOBBY SOLANO last night threw down the gauntlet to Sir Bobby Robson and begged the Newcastle United manager not to axe him for the game at Chelsea. more...
Shildon will be praying that fortune tomorrow really does favour the brave after bad luck dogged their last FA Cup adventure 42 years ago. more...
SIR BOBBY ROBSON reckons he has finally won his two-year battle to get the best out of Laurent Robert - but only after the exasperated Newcastle United manager had to issue the mercurial winger with a final warning. more...
JEFF WHITLEY believes he is now receiving his just rewards at Sunderland for starting the campaign playing the patience game. more...
SNUBBED Sunderland striker Kevin Kyle has been overlooked by Scotland for their European Championships play-off double-header with Holland next week. more...
SIR BOBBY ROBSON reckons he has finally won his two-year battle to get the best out of Laurent Robert - but only after the exasperated Newcastle United manager had to issue the mercurial winger with a final warning. more...
David Hodgson makes his long-awaited return as Darlington manager in the FA Cup tomorrow having already set about making his presence felt. more...
PAT EDDERY'S impending retirement at Doncaster this afternoon quite simply marks the end of an era. more...
AN environmental team will be knocking on doors to urge residents to recycle their rubbish. more...
A DOZEN young people took their first steps towards a military career last week at an Army recruitment drive. more...
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