The North East | Archive | 2004 | April
CONTROVERSIAL plans to re-route a national cycleway through the heart of a residential estate have been deferred. more...
AN INDOOR market which supports dozens of businesses has been saved from closure. more...
YOUNGSTERS at a County Durham school are to help start work on a £250,000 nursery unit on Monday. more...
A JUDGE told a youth to take stock of his life after he appeared in court for breaching an order made after he was convicted of robbery. more...
UNION bosses are calling on a council to suspend its controversial tests for taxi drivers pending a court hearing. more...
WORK by health officials to tackle drug and alcohol misuse has been praised. more...
CHURCH leaders are hoping to provide a youth centre to tackle anti-social behaviour. more...
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy who took his mother's car and then crashed it appeared in court yesterday. more...
AUDIENCES will be treated to tap dancing and trampoling during a production of Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Gondoliers. more...
HUGE steel elephants will be the focus of an art and landscape project in County Durham. more...
AN MP returned to a school with close family ties as part of a global campaign to make education available to every child. more...
MEMBERS of a small rural community are invited to swap notes on the history of their village at weekly meetings. more...
A CELEBRATION of Indian music will be in east Durham next month. more...
THREE men who took part in an early morning attack on two brothers in a busy town centre have been spared jail. more...
GOVERNMENT safety inspectors may look into an accident in which a man's arm was crushed on Thursday. more...
ORGANISERS of a week-long clean-up operation on a troubled east Cleveland estate are looking forward to adopting the scheme in other areas. more...
St Peter's Church is hosting a walk from Redcar to South Gare and back to raise money for Christian Aid. more...
SURFERS and holidaymakers may soon be able to enjoy a wide range of facilities at a £570,000 seafront building. more...
ANGRY residents are objecting to a new bus service which they say would mean 24,000 trips every year along their road. more...
A COUNCIL has agreed to spend £18,000 examining the future of a pool complex it had considered closing. more...
INTERNATIONAL experts are visiting North Yorkshire next week to celebrate the achievements of two market towns. more...
THE newest recruits to join The Guards left their North Yorkshire training camp with the best wishes of a former leader of the Conservative Party. more...
MOST people might fancy a bath or a shower after they've done a spot of gardening - but not Ian Codling. more...
THE Mayor of Middlesbrough has thrown his weight behind a campaign to alert older people to the scourge of bogus callers. more...
HOSPITALS are to receive an extra £100,000 from the Government for dealing with patients quickly. more...
URGENT safety improvements need to be made to transport services in a Teesside borough, according to a report. more...
TEENAGERS from Stockton met young people from France, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Spanish town of Cheste, near Valencia. more...
Q My husband is 60 and only earns £40 a week plus Reduced Earnings Allowance of £48.04. I claim £44.35 a week Carer's Allowance for looking after our disabled son. We do not have to pay council tax. Is there anything we can claim? more...
BUS and rail group Arriva told shareholders that it had made substantial progress towards becoming a leading operator in Europe. more...
MORRISONS has opened the first of its converted Safeways stores following the company's successful £3bn takeover. more...
THE Northern Echo has agreed to be the official media partner for a leading business and technology partnering event for a second year. more...
A RISE in interest rates next month looks less certain following the release of economic growth figures that were be weaker than expected. more...
DRUGS group GlaxoSmithKline has won approval in the US for an asthma treatment for children as young as four. more...
GIANT heads dominate an art exhibition which opens in the region today. more...
IN the distant and all-too-brief glory days of the New Romantics, when the shirts were frilly and the hair was big, no-one stood prouder than Duran Duran. Head and shoulder pads above their peers, it was Simon Le Bon and co who had the sharper suits, the flashier videos, and the most highlighted hair. more...
Steve Pratt finds out why Jarrow-born writer Alan Plater is reviving his screen story about 1940s blonde bandswomen. more...
A CELEBRATION of Indian music will be held in east Durham next month. more...
AUDIENCES will be treated to tap dancing and trampoling during a production of Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Gondoliers. more...
RAIL chiefs are joining forces with one of the country's leading attractions to give an insight into the modern railway. more...
He may have come to fame as an elf, but Orlando Bloom looks likely to become a genuine movie star. He tells Steve Pratt about working with Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp, and why he wants to mix the blockbusters with low-budget films. more...
PLAYWRIGHT Bryony Lavery has no doubt about one of the joys of writing for the NT Shell Connections - the chance to write a new play with a large cast. That's something usually denied writers in these times of cash-conscious theatres. more...
THE ordinary DIY guy just can't transform a room in two days complete with new flooring and flat-pack furniture. Despite the smug self-assurance of Changing Rooms (BBC1, Monday), as it started an incredible 15th series, the real level of amateur incompetence was revealed in Britain's Worst Diy'er (five, Sunday). more...
Just because you're a big name TV star, it doesn't mean your new series will get a guaranteed showing... more...
THE Government has to be as tough as it possibly can to protect its people from terrorism - but it must also be fair. more...
ALAN Plater can't imagine what he'd do if he wasn't writing. "I love doing it," he says. "It's like asking why does Steve Davis play snooker. There's no life for him if he doesn't play snooker." more...
IT is the right of any Englishman at a football match to fall asleep if he wishes, particularly if he is watching Arsenal. more...
POSTAL SERVICES: I DISAGREE with A Bergg (HAS, Apr 19), the Post Office does not require credible competition, but rather the public needs a realistic outlook on the cost of stamps and delivery of the service in general. more...
He may have come to fame as an elf, but Orlando Bloom looks likely to become a genuine movie star. He tells Steve Pratt about working with Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp, and why he wants to mix the blockbusters with low-budget films. more...
A COUNCIL which ordered flower-lovers off a village green is now considering banning gardeners from other areas. more...
A YOUNG mother acquired a cocaine habit while suffering post natal depression, a court heard yesterday. more...
A THREE-DAY festival over the coming Bank Holiday weekend is due to be bigger and better. more...
TRANSPORT systems that lose money, such as the Tyne and Wear Metro, are throwing the building of further light rail systems into jeopardy, spending watchdogs have warned. more...
AN exhibition showing how part of the North-East won a £10m battle to reclaim its coastline from industrial pollution opens today. more...
THE North-East bade a fond farewell yesterday to one of its heroes - football legend George Hardwick. more...
ENGLISH Heritage has backed a campaign to stop the extension of quarrying beside an important Neolithic site. more...
VISITORS to a haunted medieval hall will be invited to track down its ghost over the forthcoming Bank Holiday weekend. more...
THE North-East bade a fond farewell yesterday to one of its heroes - football legend George Hardwick. more...
A MAN and a woman have been questioned by police investigating the distribution of a potentially lethal batch of heroin in the region. more...
CAMPAIGNERS last night called on the Government to replace the "discredited" General Medical Council as the body which regulates UK doctors, after further revelations over gynaecologist Richard Neale. more...
A WOMAN who only started serious training four months ago is about to compete for the title of Britain's Strongest Woman. more...
AN exhibition showing how part of the North-East won a £10m battle to reclaim its coastline from industrial pollution opens today. more...
WITH only three games to go before the end of the season, a star-studded line-up of signed football memorabilia is being raffled to raise funds for Darlington Football Club. more...
A family have set up memorial fund to remember their daughter, who lost her fight against cancer when she was 16. more...
A POLICE officer feared he was going to be killed when a man, high on a mix of drink and lighter fuel, repeatedly tried to stab him with a kitchen knife. more...
GREAT heights and age are no obstacle to Fred Deakin, who will be plunging from 14,000 feet to mark his 80th birthday - all in the name of charity. more...
THE Government was left embarrassed last night in its bid to force solicitors to hand over compensation cash to miners and their families. more...
A STOLEN Land Rover, which ploughed through a fence into a military cemetery, knocking down at least ten headstones, has been found abandoned. more...
A CRUSADER armed with the cross of St George rode through city streets to demand a national holiday for the English yesterday. more...
TUCKED away in a North-East cemetery is a corner of Britain that will be forever Japan. more...
A MAN who kept sex images of children and babies on his computer has been jailed for eight months. more...
TUCKED away in a North-East cemetery is a corner of Britain that will be forever Japan. more...
AN alcoholic was crushed to death after he fell asleep inside a skip and was emptied into a refuse wagon, an inquest heard yesterday. more...
HARD-UP workingmen's clubs could be thrown a financial lifeline by the sale of the Federation Brewery. more...
AN outstanding country garden is opening to the public tomorrow (Sunday) to help a North-East charity. more...
NEARLY 4,000 Darlington children will receive a free piece of fruit every day from next week. more...
A POLICE officer feared he was going to be killed when a man, high on a mix of drink and lighter fuel, repeatedly tried to stab him with a kitchen knife. more...
CAMPAIGNERS last night called on the Government to replace the "discredited" General Medical Council as the body which regulates UK doctors, after further revelations over gynaecologist Richard Neale. more...
UNICYCLISTS from across Britain came to the region yesterday for their annual conference. more...
THE headteacher of a newly-opened Christian secondary school has resigned only weeks after pupils were caught looking at Internet pornography sites. more...
HARD-UP workingmen's clubs could be thrown a financial lifeline by the sale of the Federation Brewery. more...
A SUSPECT in the kidnap of a North-East businessman has been cleared after a six-week investigation. more...
Following a three-year stint with Blackhall, West Indian all-rounder Imran Jan makes his debut for Guisborough who begin their defence of the Darlington Building Society NYSD Premier League Premier Division championship at Hartlepool. more...
GARY Breen has warned his Sunderland teammates that their efforts will count for nothing if the Black Cats fail to win promotion to the Premiership this season. more...
DURHAM will do well to avoid a fifth successive championship defeat today when they resume on 30 for three in their second innings, still 143 behind Nottinghamshire. more...
NEWCASTLE boss Sir Bobby Robson has admitted he is prepared to live dangerously and tolerate Laurent Robert's frailties to utilise the Frenchman's match-winning potential. more...
Australian Ian Harvey led Yorkshire's batting feast against Essex at Headingley which virtually guaranteed they will scoop up maximum points from their opening Championship match. more...
GARY Breen has warned his Sunderland teammates that their efforts will count for nothing if the Black Cats fail to win promotion to the Premiership this season. more...
Durham City manager Billy Cruddas has told his players that he wants "no let up" in their game at Penrith today. more...
STEVE McClaren has urged his under-achieving strikeforce to take a leaf out of Juan Pablo Angel's book as the in-form Colombian returns from a knee injury at the Riverside this afternoon. more...
DAN Harper is hoping to bow out on a high note when he ends his two-year stint with Blaydon in the Durham Cup final against Darlington at Durham City today (2pm). more...
RAPIDLY drying ground has significantly boosted Haut Cercy's prospects in the last big jumps' race of the season, the £150,000 Betfred Gold Cup at Sandown. more...
NEVER one to shun a challenge, David Hodgson could not have picked a bigger test than the one he was walking into at Darlington Football Club last November. more...
SIR BOBBY ROBSON'S former right-hand man Mick Wadsworth, who quit Newcastle for Southampton three years ago, has taken charge of Portuguese side Beira Mar, writes Clive Hetherington. more...
A FIFTH win on the bounce and Hartlepool United will secure a play-off spot this afternoon. more...
Mark Johnston and Ripon's clerk of the course, James Hutchinson, have teamed up to try and ensure the unbeaten star filly Attraction enjoys a perfect preparation for next Sunday's Ultimatebet.com 1,000 Guineas, writes Colin Woods. more...
NORTHERN champions Morpeth Harriers' hopes of a first National 12-Stage road relay title have been hit by the absence of their three top runners. more...
WHEN Steve Gibson took control of Middlesbrough just over a decade ago he had a vision. The local millionaire wanted to firmly establish the Teesside outfit among England's elite and ensure a trophy-less past was finally brought to an end. more...
NEVER one to shun a challenge, David Hodgson could not have picked a bigger test than the one he was walking into at Darlington Football Club last November. more...
A FIFTH win on the bounce and Hartlepool United will secure a play-off spot this afternoon. Pool go to Rushden and Diamonds with a five-point advantage over nearest challengers Port Vale. more...
MICK McCarthy last night insisted that there is no need to panic despite Sunderland's sudden attack of the shakes. more...
SHOLA AMEOBI is back where he started tomorrow when he lines up for Newcastle against Chelsea at St. James' Park. more...
Spennymoor manager Tony Lee is desperate to avoid any more injuries when they go to Gainsborough in their final league game. more...
A DEPUTY mayor has been suspended by the Labour Party after becoming embroiled in a race row. more...
A CAMPAIGN is under way to offer gay and bi-sexual men in the North-East free immunisations and health screenings. more...
A RESTAURANT owner is urging diners to turn detective and help trace the history of his building. more...
SHOPPERS and football fans are being warned to expect traffic delays in Newcastle city centre tomorrow. more...
PRIMARY school children are looking to bridge the generation gap with the aid of a £10,000 grant. more...
AUDIENCES will be treated to tap dancing and trampoling during a production of Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Gondoliers. more...
SCHOOLS from across Teesdale fielded more than 100 children for the 11th primary schools cross country event. more...
A PENSIONER has started a petition for the reinstatement of public toilets in Newton Aycliffe town centre. more...
TWO teams from Bishop Barrington School, in Bishop Auckland, are teeing off in the British Heart Foundation Junior Golf Championship at Crook Golf Club next week. more...
A CELEBRATION of Indian music will be held in east Durham next month. more...
PEOPLE who appreciate the countryside can treat themselves to a taste of spring in County Durham over the May Bank Holiday. more...
A MAN was left unconscious in the street after being beaten by a group of teenagers he saw breaking into a car. more...
A COLLEGE opened a 3,500sq ft extension this week. more...
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