The North East | Archive | 2005 | October
A CARING organisation from north Durham is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a party this weekend. more...
PLANS to build 30 apartments in a picturesque village have met with opposition from the local community. more...
AN £18,000 refurbishment of part of Darlington Crematorium will start next week. more...
TWO brothers have been jailed for attacking other drinkers at a pub. more...
DARLINGTON Rotary Club has praised the top fundraiser in the borough's 10km run. more...
PUPILS from a Darlington primary school are taking part in a competition to design bus shelters for the borough's latest housing development. more...
BEER lovers who enjoyed this year's Darlington Rhythm 'n' Brews Festival also did their bit for charity. more...
PENSIONER Betty Shaw is proving how keeping an active mind is helping to keep her young at heart. more...
PUPILS at a Darlington secondary school got an insight into how human life has affected the planet. more...
A SENIOR police officer is backing a bid for YMCA premises in a market town. more...
A SCHOOL once attended by a comedy legend could become a tea shop. more...
STUDENTS at Durham High School for Girls have been given a preview of a stained glass window that is soon to be installed. more...
FED-UP homeowners have teamed up with a property company to tackle a recurring vandal problem. more...
Last night's football more...
EIGHT terraced houses should not be built on the site of a derelict garage on a main road into a city, planners have said. more...
A NEW unit has been set up which is responsible for checking staff and volunteers who work with children and vulnerable adults in North Yorkshire. more...
SPORTS facilities in a North Yorkshire town have received a boost with the opening of a £840,000 floodlit pitch and fitness suite. more...
A FORMER mayor of Pickering has died suddenly at the age of 73. more...
A waste collection scheme has helped divert hundreds of tonnes of rubbish from landfill in the past week. more...
A GROUP of volunteers hoping to redevelop an old railway station has received a £250,000 loan to ease cash flow problems. more...
PART-time police officers in the North Yorkshire force's eastern area have been honoured for their efforts to help the public. more...
CLEANING staff are celebrating after winning official recognition for the quality of their work. more...
A TOWN's mayor has pledged that job losses and cuts to key services will be a last resort if a predicted budget shortfall of £8.8m comes to fruition. more...
Council officials are now using a modified electric milk float to collect residents' garden waste from outside their homes. more...
A chemical company has helped realise a dream for Priory Woods Primary School on Middlesbrough's Netherfields estate. more...
THE founder of a Teesside pensioners' group has spoken of his sadness at its imminent demise. more...
RESIDENTS living on an upmarket estate are to form their own parish group to protect against over-zealous developers. more...
POLICE have secured new powers to stop gangs of unruly youths causing problems in South Bank, near Middlesbrough. more...
ANYONE involved in private fostering arrangements is urged to take advantage of a free advice and guidance service. more...
CONSTRUCTION company the MMP Group has clinched work worth more than £1m in one week. more...
Britain's second-largest caravan park operator has confirmed it is in takeover talks. more...
Investment of £3m in two industrial estates in Hartlepool has attracted more than forty new businesses to the area and created over 200 jobs. more...
A TRAINING company set up by a former County Durham police officer has been awarded a contract by one of Britain's biggest police forces. more...
A family consortium owning more than 40 per cent of Jurys Doyle has launched a £859m takeover bid for the Irish group, it was announced yesterday. more...
A FAST-GROWING IT company in North Yorkshire has doubled the size of its offices and is expanding its workforce. more...
Car maker Nissan has boosted new car sales in Europe by almost a third, figures showed. more...
A FAST-GROWING IT company in North Yorkshire has doubled the size of its offices and is expanding its workforce. more...
THE North-East still has the highest levels of unemployment in the country, official figures showed last night. more...
WALTER Wall, the UK's biggest independent chain of factory carpet clearance superstores, yesterday announced a growth sales and the launch of a store in County Durham. more...
PEOPLE in the North-East are the most active investors in the UK, trading shares more often than those in the traditional stockbroker belt, research showed last night. more...
Today marks Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday. As the Conservatives prepare to elect a new leader, Nick Morrison looks at how the former prime minister is still casting a shadow over her party - and the country. more...
Bishop Auckland's Lord Foster may have lost his stripes but he was a scintillating speaker at a men's breakfast. more...
A Brush With Fame (ITV1) more...
TODAY our hearts go out to a father and son reunited yesterday for the first time in almost 40 years. more...
TERRORISM: THE attack on Iraq was presented as part of the war on terror, but in terms of dealing with the threat of international terrorism, it can only be described as a monumental blunder. more...
IT is hard to believe that my devoted three-year-old, who now thinks his mummy is just about the best thing in the world, will, one day, consider me little more than a total embarrassment. more...
APPRENTICES are being trained in age-old rural skills as part of a job-creation project in the North York Moors National Park. more...
A DAY after being described as a lone voice calling for a merger of all three North-East police forces, it seems that Durham Chief Constable Paul Garvin is not alone after all. more...
HUNDREDS of volunteers are being sought to give their blood for their ancestors. more...
PLANS for a £170m development that could create more than 2,000 jobs in the region are expected to take a major step forward next week. more...
PEOPLE in Sunderland and York need to get fitter, according to a survey that has ranked the cities in the bottom-half of a league table for fitness and healthy lifestyles. more...
The region's police forces are facing their biggest shake-up for years. Stuart Arnold looks at the key questions about the planned reforms. more...
MORE than £63m was promised by the government yesterday to rebuild or replace crumbling school buildings across the North-East - including £15m for Cleveland. more...
MERGERS of emergency services across the North-East will make it harder to respond to a "New Orleans- style" disaster, the Tories said yesterday. more...
NEARLY £25m is to be invested in massive redevelopment projects at the two secondary schools in the west end of Darlington, it was announced yesterday. more...
THE life of DJ John Peel will be celebrated today as part of a national event commemorating his contribution to music. more...
A SUICIDAL father spent a night in a police cell after his lover dropped off their baby son to cheer him up, a court heard yesterday. more...
A £1.5M development to put a college at the forefront of the food industry has been opened. more...
ARMY chiefs have met anti-bullying campaigners for the first time to discuss ways of forging a partnership to tackle the problem. more...
A MAN lost his thumb after dangerous chemicals exploded as he tried to mix two fireworks into one. more...
A PAGEANT is to be held to choose a town's beauty queen. more...
WOMEN have started to break through the earnings glass ceiling in local authorities, accounting for about half of the top-paid posts in a number of councils in the North-East, according to research. more...
POPSTAR Cheryl Tweedy will be picking up style tips from Victoria Beckham in the run-up to her wedding. more...
FARMERS are being urged to watch the birdie, particularly tree sparrows and corn buntings. more...
A COUNCIL is extending its healthy eating policy to ducks. more...
HISTORIAN and author John Sheen is to look at the background and service of the Durham Light Infantry's famous fighting labourers this weekend. more...
THE father and brother of a disabled man who was beaten to death behind a town-centre pub were reunited yesterday for the first time in almost 40 years. more...
FAMILY reunions are usually happy occasions, filled with joy as long-lost relatives share memories of their missing years. more...
A soldier from a regiment which had 14 personnel who tested positive for drugs last month is being investigated in connection with substance abuse, the Ministry of Defence confirmed last night. more...
Thousands of patients are being given an ultimatum - go private or start looking for another NHS dentist. more...
Choice is the latest buzz word. In fact, it's been around since Margaret Thatcher's day, but politicians of all persuasions are still shouting about it as if they'd only just come up with the idea. more...
A FAILED businessman who masterminded an elaborate fraud to fund a luxury lifestyle for his partner has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. more...
PRIMARY care trusts have joined forces to encourage people to get vaccinated against flu. more...
A PAGEANT is to be held to choose a town's beauty queen. more...
A FIRE blew a cloud of potentially lethal smoke across a town last night when a derelict office block burst into flames. more...
A WOMAN who was beaten and raped by a stranger 16 years ago branded her attacker a monster last night as she spoke for the first time about her ordeal. more...
SADLY, it is not unusual to see gangs of youths roaming the streets in Abidjan, the impoverished capital of Ivory Coast. more...
ALL'S well that ends well and, after a week of soul-searching and strife, England signed off their World Cup qualification programme in style last night with an impressive 2-1 win over Poland. more...
DARLINGTON are ready to offer Bert Bossu first-team football by granting the unsettled goalkeeper a loan move. more...
DEAN Whitehead has revealed he is preparing for this weekend's visit of Manchester United to the Stadium Of Light with a family feud looming. more...
ALL'S well that ends well and, after a week of soul-searching and strife, England signed off their World Cup qualification programme in style last night with an impressive 2-1 win over Poland. more...
Archerfield Links, who is improving at a rate of knots, is fancied to complete the three-timer in the NGK Spark Plugs Nursery over a mile at Newmarket this afternoon. more...
Shane Warne did more than any Australian to prevent Ashes defeat this past summer and he could not have landed in a better place to repair any damage to their reputation. more...
ATHLETIC BILBAO defender Aitor Karanka is hoping Middlesbrough resurrect their interest in him next summer. more...
Archerfield Links, who is improving at a rate of knots, is fancied to complete the three-timer in the NGK Spark Plugs Nursery over a mile at Newmarket this afternoon. more...
The rejection of plans to install two wind turbines has blown away the future financial stability of a County Durham farmer. more...
A man has been charged with cruelty in connection with the discovery of nearly 30 dead animals at a stables, it emerged today. more...
A North-East primary school nurse who shared almost 200 pornographic pictures of young boys with other Internet perverts has been kicked out of the profession after a hearing in London. more...
HUNDREDS of volunteers are being sought to give their blood for their ancestors. more...
THE "hot rocks" crucial to the success of plans for a renewable energy model village in Weardale, County Durham, feature in an event at Newcastle University tomorrow. more...
A PLAN to create an opencast mine on the border of County Durham and Northumberland appeared to have been blocked last night after councillors unanimously opposed the scheme. more...
SENIOR police officers said changes to policing patterns in south Durham will not affect rural communities. more...
A SENIOR police officer is backing a bid for YMCA premises in a market town. more...
A WEARDALE quarry provided the setting for story-telling sessions aimed at capturing the imaginations of primary school children. more...
A SCHOOL once attended by a comedy legend could become a tea shop. more...
ELDERLY residents in the Crook area are being warned to be on their guard following a spate of distraction burglaries. more...
THE OWNER of a fast food catering van has set up a petition after being told to leave his patch. more...
ALLOTMENT holders have called a public meeting in a last-ditch attempt to save their gardens. more...
RESIDENTS may have witnessed the theft of a forklift truck from a building site without realising what was happening. more...
WOMEN have started to break through the earnings glass ceiling in local authorities, accounting for about half of the top-paid posts in a number of councils in the North-East, according to research. more...
CONSTRUCTION company the MMP Group has clinched work worth more than £1m in one week. more...
PEOPLE in Sunderland and York need to get fitter, according to a survey that has ranked the cities in the bottom-half of a league table for fitness and healthy lifestyles. more...
STUDENTS are cutting a dash at their college after receiving a set of work wear. more...
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