The North East | Archive | 2005 | February
AN appeal was made last night for witnesses to a two-car collision which left both female motorists detained in hospital over the weekend. more...
A TEENAGER has been selected for national motocross trials - having only just taken up the sport. more...
STAFF morale among workers at Darlington Borough Council is at an all-time high. more...
RESIDENTS are up in arms over new street names for a housing development. more...
Young boxers were knocked out to share the ring with heavyweight hero Danny Williams. more...
BUS lanes are to be added to three key stretches of road leading into, and out, of a busy city centre. more...
CHILDREN captured their own little piece of history during a weekend craft activity session. more...
A MEETING has been organised about the plans for proposed changes of medical services at Redcar. more...
A BID is being made to Government for £500,000 emergency funding to partially re-shape a hill. more...
HOUSING bosses have made reassurances that local people will get higher priority for social housing in Ryedale. more...
A LIFE-SIZED stuffed stag that went walkabout from its home in Harrogate has made a welcome return after being missing for more than two-weeks. more...
A SITE for a new sports centre has been identified - after three separate studies that cost the public £64,000. more...
MORE help is being offered to young carers. more...
PLANS for a divisional police headquarters are expected to move a step nearer next month. more...
DESIGNS for a £30m estate of 800 new homes being built on Teesside are to go on display this week. more...
A MULTI-MILLION pound scheme to improve bathing waters off the Teesside coast has been given the go-ahead. more...
A freight company has been ordered to pay compensation to the boss it sacked after he bought beers for his workers as a thank you for their hard work. more...
The Walk (ITV1), For One Night Only - Strictly Classroom! (ITV1): IF you're going to have a row with your husband or wife, don't do it in the middle of the Sahara desert in temperatures of 120 degrees Fahrenheit with a sandstorm blowing up and terrorists lurking behind the next sand dune. more...
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IT is not very long ago that the future looked bleak for the North-East town of Shildon. Apart from its railway heritage, and the pride of its people, it didn't have a great deal going for it. more...
Professional boxer Nigel Wright is gearing up for the biggest fight of his life. He tells Neil Hunter what it's like juggling his training regime with work and caring for a new baby. more...
THE imposing grandeur of Studley Royal House comes into view as the private road curves through the expansive deer park and winds around the side of the 18th century house. Across the snow-covered courtyard, Susie Bulmer throws open the double doors and greets me with a firm handshake and a warm smile. Her brown eyes sparkle animatedly as she introduces herself before heading off to ask the housekeeper about coffee. more...
She was born into a world of beauty and wealth, but priviledge does not guarantee happiness, as Susie Bulmer discovered. She tells Women's Editor Lindsay Jennings about failed relationships, swapping decorating tips with Margaret Thatcher and finding true love. more...
DRESDEN: PEOPLE are saying that the British are war criminals because of the the bombing of Dresden in 1945 (HAS, Feb 19). more...
It's five years since Terence Maynard was on stage, but a great director and a great play have tempted him back, he tells Steve Pratt. more...
SCHOOL buses are to be fitted with security cameras in a bid to reduce bad behaviour by passengers. more...
TEENAGE singing sensation Faye Nesbitt is on her way to student stardom after being shortlisted in a national competition. more...
Cyril Smith left the world of motorsport as an unknown sporting hero. Now, 42 years later, his achievements have finally been commemorated. Chris Brayshay reports. more...
RAILWAY operator GNER looked last night to have won the battle for control of the East Coast Main Line. more...
The Duchess of Northumberland's controversial Poison Garden is officially opening today. more...
TWO favourites have emerged in the all-woman scrap over Labour's choice of candidate to fight the next election in a safe North-East seat. more...
EMERGENCY services last night criticised flytippers who triggered a full-scale chemical scare. more...
A freight company has been ordered to pay compensation to the boss it sacked after he bought beers for his workers as a thank you for their hard work. more...
AN intrepid motorcyclist has set off on a journey around the country to raise money for the Unicef tsunami appeal. more...
THE region was rallying behind a new museum last night only 24-hours before judging begins for Britain's Museum of the Year. more...
A SUPERSTORE has been given permission to extend, but says it has no plans to do so in the near future. more...
COMMUTERS are bracing themselves for disruption as work gets under way on one of the main river crossing routes into and out of North-East city centre, today. more...
AN appeal was made last night for witnesses to a two-car collision which left both female motorists detained in hospital over the weekend. more...
THE families of soldiers jailed and thrown out of the Army following the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, have called for a public inquiry. more...
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend, her sister and an elderly couple has accepted responsibility for their deaths. more...
SAFETY checks are being made in a district's disused churchyards to ensure headstones pose no danger to the public. more...
A BITTER-SWEET first novel set in the pubs and clubs of the North-East is to be published in the US. more...
truants and their parents have been warned there will be nowhere to hide from today as police and social services begin Britain's biggest clampdown. more...
PLANS to create the largest skate park of its kind in the UK are on target. more...
truants and their parents have been warned there will be nowhere to hide from today as police and social services begin Britain's biggest clampdown. more...
York Minster was in mourning today after one of its faithful servants plunged 100ft from one of its towers to his death in full view of horrified tourists. more...
POLICE across the North are on the look-out for a vulnerable teenage girl missing from a hospital unit. more...
COUNTY DURHAM and the Tees Valley has the country's worst obesity problem, according to new research. more...
A BID is being made to Government for £500,000 emergency funding to partially re-shape a hill. more...
JACK Ross could be facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines, after damaging an ankle on Saturday. more...
DARLINGTON manager David Hodgson believes Leyton Orient midfielder David Hunt should have been dismissed for his elbow on Neil Maddison at the weekend. more...
COLIN HADDON'S career in the saddle has taken off big-time over the past few months, aided and abetted in no uncertain terms by Sorbiesharry, fancied to make it three-in-a-row at this afternoon's Wolverhampton all-weather fixture. more...
AFTER three victories out of 17 in North One, Middlesbrough are confident they can win three of the remaining five games to avoid relegation. more...
STEVE CALDWELL believes Sunderland, after failing to make the most of opportunities in the past, are ready to welcome the pressures that arrive with being in the top two for only the second time this season. more...
Penzance staged a stunning performance at Kempton Park on Saturday, which rocketed him to favouritism for the JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham. more...
GRAEME Souness's honeymoon period at Newcastle ended at Bolton's Reebok Stadium in October with his first defeat and, as his skipper Alan Shearer admitted, the result still 'rankled'. more...
DAVID Hodgson never felt the need to return to the changing room at the end of Darlington's game at Leyton Orient at the weekend. more...
STEVE McClaren last night promised to step up Danny Graham's contract talks after the teenage striker scored his first Premiership goal to earn Middlesbrough a dramatic 2-2 draw with Charlton. more...
Having recorded some good results that indicated promotion was on the cards, Darlington have just lost at Leyton Orient and are about to win only two of the final 11 games of the season, a run that will knock aspirations of moving up a division way off course. more...
NORMALLY a football manager is the one employed to bring the playing staff back down to earth, at Sunderland it appears midfielder Carl Robinson has been afforded the role as realist. more...
ON February 27, 1999 Chris Turner set about the task of saving Hartlepool United's football league status. more...
Neil Maddison made an impressive return to Darlington's midfield against Leyton Orient on Saturday, emerging with credit for a hard-working 90 minutes, despite suffering a suspected fractured cheekbone. more...
Mathew Tait produced an inspired second-half performance, scoring one try and making another as Newcastle battled back for an unlikely draw against Gloucester yesterday. more...
GRAEME Souness has called on Kieron Dyer to turn his attacking threat into goals and challenged his international midfielder to become a ten-goal a season man. more...
THE most momentous year in Middlesbrough's history came to an end yesterday as the club finally relinquished its grip on the Carling Cup. more...
THE North-East's newest bridge was lifted into place over the weekend. more...
ACTIVE 'oldies' are being sent into Wear Valley primary schools to lead lunchtime exercise classes for youngsters. more...
DEVELOPERS are applying for planning consent to build homes on pockets of land in the Wear Valley district. more...
JAZZ is in the air at Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Saturday when a six-hour workshop is followed by a concert. more...
VILLAGERS are urging councillors to throw out plans for a controversial housing development near their homes. more...
A NEW bid to run trains direct from the North-East to London has been formally lodged with rail chiefs. more...
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