The North East | Archive | 2005 | July
A COMMUNITY centre is rocking to the sounds of young bands as it takes on the role of rehearsal room following the closure of a well-known studio. more...
A THEATRE group has put on a hard-hitting show in Darlington, in support of a local charity. more...
A PRIMARY school's pupils have taken part in a poster competition as part of a drive to stamp out anti-social behaviour in a community. more...
CHILDREN were behaving so badly on their way home from school that the driver refused to go on without a police escort. more...
PUPILS are celebrating a football league and cup double for the second season in a row. more...
RESIDENTS were yesterday bracing themselves for a fresh battle to save a landmark pub from demolition. more...
STUDENTS from an independent school have staged a party to entertain 30 elderly people. more...
ALMOST 100 people have taken part in a gruelling cycle ride. more...
A DARLINGTON school will turn back the clock for a landmark anniversary celebration this week. more...
PUPILS at a Darlington primary school will today find out about the latest security measures to keep school property safe. more...
A RESIDENTS' group has vowed to step up its attempts to transform a doomed school into a community centre. more...
A PROM in a Park is to be staged this evening, beginning at 6pm, in the grounds of Shotton Hall in Peterlee. more...
WHILE the world looks to the G8 talks to bring new environmental safeguards, a North-East Council was yesterday making its own piece of green history. more...
A QUARTER of a century of loyal service has earned a primary school secretary an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party. more...
BRANDON United FC is preparing to launch youth teams but is still on the look-out for extra sponsorship. more...
PUPILS have been singing the praises of their headteacher who is preparing to retire this summer. more...
AN up-to-date surgery is to open in Marske. more...
A DAZZLING red and white Cadillac will be the star of the show when Greased Lightning strikes the stage. more...
A DECISION to showcase a redevelopment plan that includes the demolition of 1,000 houses as a "perfect example'' of how to improve life for communities, has sparked anger. more...
A SOLICITOR has won a national award for her work to protect young people in North Yorkshire. more...
A PUBLIC rubbish tip was forced to make an unscheduled shut down after skips overflowed and people dumped their rubbish in anger and frustration around the site. more...
A RESEARCH award is to be set up to promote study of the natural and historical environment of the North York Moors National Park. more...
POLICE have issued a warning after two people were duped into buying cloned cars and lost nearly £17,000. more...
A COUNCIL'S planning department has received a record grant from the Government. more...
A charity fun run takes place on Sunday, starting and finishing in Leyburn. It has been organised by senior students at Wensleydale School. more...
A CAMPAIGN by parents and governors to stop cars from speeding past a town primary school is set to be a success. more...
SCHOOLCHILDREN are practising their circus skills ready for three performances later this month. more...
A GROUP that is leading multi-million pound improvements in Hartlepool has welcomed a new member to its board. more...
A MINI guide on how to deal with terror attacks has been issued to every police officer on Teesside. more...
RESIDENTS will get a chance this week to find out what is being done to tackle anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhoods. more...
WORKSHOPS exploring dialogue and storytelling to help adults develop new skills and confidence are on offer this month. more...
STUDENTS at Norton School celebrated the cultures of the world during an annual International Week. more...
JOB-HUNTERS are being urged to make tracks to a jobs fair. more...
CREDITORS owed more than £600,000 by a collapsed cruise company are likely to recover less than 10p in the pound. more...
SCHOOL pupils were put through their paces by the Army. more...
POSTERS telling people the walking distance to a town centre are being put up as part of a council campaign. more...
THE cost of repairing flood damaged roads and bridges in North Yorkshire is expected to top £3m, the county council has said. more...
A strategy aiming to tackle crime, anti-social behaviour and drug abuse was launched this week. more...
Everyone knows that employees have the right to be accompanied by a colleague or trade union representative at disciplinary hearings. more...
NEWCASTLE law firm Mincoffs is strengthening its licensing and gaming department with the appointment of licensing expert Richard Arnot to lead the team. more...
THE administrators' self-imposed deadline for bidders to register a serious interest in MG-Rover came and went last week with no announcement. more...
A CHEMICAL company has redesigned an island on its brinefield in an attempt to attract common terns. more...
BROADCASTER ITV's shares surged by three per cent yesterday amid speculation that a group of investors, including US media conglomerate Time Warner was planning a £6.6bn takeover. more...
TO her friends, it is no surprise that Ingrid Sylvestre has become a successful designer on the verge of a potentially massive merchandising empire. more...
A helpline has been set up to ensure businesses are up-to-date with health and safety legislation. more...
A WOMAN who races huskies for Great Britain has started a business selling nutritional supplements for greyhounds. more...
ONE of Newcastle's best-known restaurant managers is moving to his boss's latest business venture. more...
THE Nomad Housing Group has made six appointments. more...
A HAULAGE company in the region has won an award. more...
THE North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) has made two appointments. more...
THE number of farmers diversifying to improve profits is increasing, according to research. more...
WHEN Lloyds TSB closed its Newcastle contact centre last November, with the loss of 960 jobs, it was heralded as the beginning of the end for the industry in the region. more...
A TECHNIQUE perfected in York using crushed crab, prawn and scampi shells to purify water has been given £20,000 by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). more...
LOGISTICS company Agility Systems has won a contract worth £250,000 with electrical manufacturer Morphy Richards. more...
THE co-founder of software company Sage last night announced his latest IT venture had bought another business. more...
ANN Summers chief executive Jacqueline Gold is considering opening a superstore-version of the lingerie chain in the North-East, The Northern Echo can reveal. more...
ANDY Thompson has no illusions about why MG Rover failed. "I have been round the Toyota plant, round the Nissan plant and round the Rover plant," he said. more...
A BLACKSMITH who can list creating medieval torture equipment as one of his past commissions is planning to open a craft showroom. more...
TWO furniture companies have secured the funding they need to expand. more...
A COSMETICS company has more than doubled its workforce thanks to help from Teesside experts. more...
TTE Management and Technical Training has promoted Sara Marshall to business development manager. more...
AN inventor and entrepreneur has won an export order for an award-winning bicycle pump. more...
WHEN Carolyn Jasper hit a cow on a sliproad off the A19, it was only her car that was damaged. more...
THE retired chief executive of Durham County Council has been appointed to lead its job creation organisation. more...
AN IT solutions company is celebrating after winning three contracts. more...
NORTH-EAST businessman Stephen Bell has persuaded a Maltese couple to move to the region to run his hotel's bistro and restaurant. more...
THE property department at the Gateshead MetroCentre has welcomed two new members. more...
TWENTY-THREE employees from EDF Energy helped prepare a North-East nature reserve for an official ceremony. more...
TERRY Laybourne, right, doesn't like interviews. He is engaging and intelligent, affable and articulate, with a wry, self-deprecating sense of humour. But he is also clearly nervous - during our conversation, his left arm constantly sweeps back and forth across the tabletop, like a pendulum marking the time. more...
The prospect of lower interest rates, and a boost to the stockmarket, was provided by the minutes of the previous Bank of England meeting held at the start of June. It showed a reversal of one vote among nine arguing for higher rates to the position of two votes among nine pushing for lower base rates; the remaining members in each case voting for no change. more...
The man credited with the quote in the headline was not a high-flying business guru, he was not an analyst, or even a highly-paid management consult. He was Sophocles, a writer of Greek tragedies born in 496BC. more...
NEIL ALLISON has a motto -work to live, don't live to work. more...
WATERCOOLER maker Ebac is to open the most expensive spa in the UK. more...
A SIGNIFICANT change has been made to the Government's Environmental Stewardship scheme for farmers. more...
THE region's specialist technology venture capital business, NorthStar Equity Investors, has recruited Marion Bernard as chief investment officer. more...
IN the 1980s, Jacqueline Gold admits she was a power dresser. "I tried to emulate what I thought a business person was like," she says. more...
BOTSWANA TIME by Will Randall (Abacus, £10.99): AS the G8 bandwagon prepares to roll into Edinburgh to discuss the continent's seemingly endless problems, Botswana Time provides a life-affirming and magical insight into a remarkable country described as "Africa's success story". more...
THE North-East's first national museum has clinched another award for its environmentally-friendly features. more...
THE HIVE by Bee Wilson (John Murray, £14.99): WHEN Napoleon was crowned Emperor of France in 1804, the whole of Notre Dame was decked out in golden bees. more...
Slaughterhouse - The Task of Blood (BBC2); Escape to the Legion (C4): IT may not quite have been what the careers officer was expecting when young Arran came in for his interview. Careers officer: "So, what do you want to be when you leave school?". Arran: "I want to kill animals." more...
GEORGE GALLOWAY: I CAN'T believe the publicity you are giving to George Galloway (Echo, June 29). Here's a man - a supporter of Saddam Hussein who murdered thousands of his own people - and yet you give him space to crucify our Prime Minister. more...
At midday tomorrow, the international Olympic Committee will decide which city will host the 2012 Olympic Games. As London lines up its big hitters ahead of the vote, Chief Sports Writer Scott Wilson explains how our chances are too close to call. more...
In a personal address prior to this week's G8 summit, TV presenter and VSO president Jonathan Dimbleby explains why Africa is desperate for your skills. more...
GEOFF Hoon, leader of the House of Commons, bravely opens up the debate about how to encourage people to vote by saying attendance at a polling station should be compulsory on election day. more...
With an increasing number of people working away from home, going off to university and travelling, more and more couples are faced with the prospect of living apart. Women's Editor Lindsay Jennings looks at how to keep long distance relationships alive. more...
The judgement in the case of Brian Blackwell, the eighteen-year-old who killed his parents with a claw hammer and a knife, is incoherent and therefore unjust. more...
PEOPLE who want to work for Darlington Football Club are invited to a recruitment day. more...
JOB-HUNTERS are being urged to make tracks to a jobs fair. more...
The Red Lion in Trimdon Village provides ample fare - if only for the few. more...
Catering assistant, £6.69ph, 16hrs pw 5 days from 7 between 5 and 8.15pm, contracted 835hrs pa. Food hygiene certificate an advantage. Ref: DUR 38744. more...
Counter clerk, Leyburn, £5.21ph, 16hrs pw between 9am and 5.30pm Mon-Fri, experience not essential as training provided. Ref: NAL 2593. more...
SCORES of holidaymakers were left angry and out-of-pocket when their flight was cancelled after fighting broke out between passengers and airport staff. more...
RESIDENTS say they are shocked after learning their homes could be demolished. more...
THREE men accused of possessing firearms when their car was stopped by armed police on a main road have appeared in court. more...
The band that launched the careers of some of rock's best guitarists will headline the 13th Stanley Blues Festival next month. more...
DETECTIVES have re-issued their appeal for information about a man who has repeatedly tried to abduct teenage girls. more...
THE Government has again urged councils to pick up the recycling pace - with figures showing wide variations in how well they are performing. more...
A FORMER United Nations weapons inspector joined peace campaigners protesting outside a US base yesterday. more...
SCORES of holidaymakers were left angry and out-of-pocket when their flight was cancelled after fighting broke out between passengers and airport staff. more...
A YOUTH banned from wearing a hoodie and barred from entering car parks in a part of the region was yesterday jailed for eight months. more...
A GRANDFATHER died after he was prescribed medication for arthritis, an inquest heard. more...
A CAMPAIGN group fighting proposals to quarry land near a prehistoric monument yesterday handed over a 10,000-signature petition. more...
TWO teenagers who admitted firebombing a mosque, a Chinese takeaway and a pizza shop were yesterday remanded in custody while they wait to be sentenced. more...
THE tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Keith Mangan has brought the missing backpacker into the centre of the media spotlight again. more...
THE man behind a multi-million pound movie set in the North-East yesterday hit back at reports it was a hoax, claiming it was "one hundred per cent" still on and involved a team of A-list Hollywood celebrities. more...
SCHOOLGIRLS who have gone out of their way to help fellow pupils beat the bullies were yesterday honoured for their efforts. more...
A TEENAGER who was part of a gang that pushed a firework through the front door of a house, which then went up in flames, killing a father, admitted man-slaughter yesterday. more...
A HEADTEACHER'S labour of love was completed yesterday, five weeks after his death. more...
Police were last night investigating the mysterious death of a 13-day-old baby. more...
HUNDREDS of people turned out yesterday to bid a fond farewell to one of the region's most highly-respected councillors. more...
TWO schools were damaged and a pigeon was beheaded when teenage vandals went on a sickening rampage. more...
A baby that was knocked out of its pushchair in a freak three-car accident died of natural causes two days later, a post mortem has revealed. more...
Police were last night investigating the mysterious death of a 13-day-old baby. more...
A MAN who tried to murder his girlfriend in an apparently motiveless knife attack was yesterday jailed for 12 years. more...
A TAXI driver has been found guilty of attacking a paramedic after an ambulance blocked his route on a one-way street. more...
A baby products firm has apologised after a six-month-old girl almost choked on a teether. more...
A SCHOOLGIRL has spoken of the terrifying moment a stranger tried to drag her into his car. more...
EVERTON are convinced Craig Bellamy will be at Goodison Park at the start of next season, but boss David Moyes is ready to make Newcastle sweat in the hope of picking up a bargain. more...
MIDDLESBROUGH finally completed the £7.5m capture of Aiyegbeni Yakubu last night after the striker was granted a work permit on appeal. more...
EVERTON are convinced Craig Bellamy will be at Goodison Park at the start of next season, but boss David Moyes is ready to make Newcastle sweat in the hope of picking up a bargain. more...
DALE Benkenstein, man-of-the-match in Durham's win at Headingley last Thursday, took the award again at Riverside last night. But this time it was in a losing cause. more...
As if merely putting a day in, our old friend Sharon Gayter warmed up for world athletics' 24-hour championships with 26 miles across the North Yorkshire moors on Saturday. more...
WITH Sunderland's players due to report for the start of pre-season training this morning, Julio Arca is hoping that the next five weeks will lay the groundwork for Premiership survival, writes SCOTT WILSON. more...
PUNTERS prepared to chance their arm might like to row in with Karen's Caper (3.05) for the feature event on day one of Newmarket's July meeting, the one-mile Falmouth Stakes. more...
CHRIS Llewellyn last night became the latest to sign up for Martin Scott's assault on League One next season. more...
WITH Sunderland's players due to report for the start of pre-season training this morning, Julio Arca is hoping that the next five weeks will lay the groundwork for Premiership survival, writes Scott Wilson. more...
MIDDLESBROUGH finally completed the £7.5m capture of Aiyegbeni Yakubu last night after the striker was granted a work permit on appeal. more...
Swindon Town have opened the way for Darlington to make midfielder David Duke their second signing of the summer. more...
Three men who intervened to stop football fans fighting on a packed train have been commended by a judge. more...
AN outdoor jamboree featuring an aerial dance troop will be staged at a North-East beauty spot at the weekend. more...
MOTOR racing drivers are to take part in a street demonstration ahead of a North-East race. more...
NEIL ALLISON has a motto -work to live, don't live to work. more...
A SCHOOL will celebrate 50 years on its site at the weekend. more...
A COMMUNITY has gone online to invite people from far and wide on a virtual tour of their village. more...
AN engineering trainee from a Newton Aycliffe factory has won a national award. more...
TERRIFYING teenagers have been haunting the corridors of Bishop Auckland College. more...
THE North-East's first national museum has clinched another award for its environmentally-friendly features. more...
ABOUT 300 youngsters from 34 teams across south-west Durham competed in a six-a-side football tournament in honour of a former soccer academy chairman. more...
COUNCILLORS approved a homeowner's plans to increase the length of his garage, despite many saying they were reluctant to do so. more...
OSCAR-WINNING film director Sir Alan Parker is to receive an honorary award from a North-East university this month. more...
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy was seriously hurt when he was knocked down in Washington on Sunday. more...
A baby products firm has apologised after a six-month-old girl almost choked on a teether. more...
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