FROM this newspaper 100 years ago.- Mr Coroner Proud held an inquiry at the Hospital on Wednesday on the body of Patrick Prior, who died on Monday afternoon as the result of an accident sustained whilst following his employment at the Darlington Forge
A PAGEANT depicting agriculture over the last century marks the millennium and the 50th Great Yorkshire Show at its Harrogate showground. The 40-minute event, entitled Reaping the Past - Sowing the Future, takes place each afternoon of the show, from
TAKING the 4am watch on board a heaving ship with icy hail stinging the face would not appeal to many pensioners - but Mrs Pat Watt is made of sterner stuff. The 64-year-old from West Layton, near Richmond, braved the elements and a bout of seasickness
ONCE it was a symbol of the local squire in his country house with space for two grand coaches, stabling for the horses and accommodation for the grooms. Today, however, the 200-year-old coach house at Swinithwaite Hall could be in the vanguard of bringing
THE battle for water customers on Teesside has escalated after Northumbrian Water was awarded the contract to supply the Tofts Farm development near Samsung, replacing Hartlepool Water. The developer of the land, One NorthEast, was able to choose its
WITHIN a couple of days of arriving in Barbados you begin to lose touch with your feet. They start to slop, as you learn to put only minimum effort into lifting them off the ground. With mules and flip-flops you can get away with not raising them at all
REGIONAL organisations are targeting China in an effort to increase inward investment in the North-East. Regional development agency One NorthEast and Country Durham Development Company have completed a ground-breaking seminar in Guangzhou, China, to
THE North-East brewery that serves much of clubland has given itself a new look. The Gateshead-based Federation Brewery has unveiled a new black and gold logo that will appear on its lorries, signs and stationery. The words Our Own Brewery are prominent
A BITTER-sweet meeting drew a line under the fight for Nunthorpe library this week. Campaign group, the Friends of Nunthorpe Library, held a final gathering to decide how to dispose of a £5,000 surplus from its fundraising efforts. It was agreed to divide
THREE pupils from Thirsk School have gained places in the English Schools Athletics Championships being held at Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, writes Alison Lewis. Holly Newsom, aged 15, will represent Thirsk in the girls triple jump, while 14-year-old
LONG-suffering residents in Nunthorpe were celebrating this week after a breakthrough in a controversial traffic saga. Members of Nunthorpe action group hailed a victory as two councils agreed on a way forward over the problem of Gypsy Lane. In talks
Ralph Walton Cup South Hetton will meet Bill Quay in the final of the Ralph Walton Cup. South Hetton had one run to spare in their semi-final win at Peterlee after they totalled 83 which included 31 not out by Keith Stewart. Peterlee's Mick Oliver was
CIU League The Ferryhill darts players were among the maximums last week when they entertained Middlestone Moor. Dave Hull heard the magic 180 cry twice while team mates Tony Nixon, Kenny Nicholson and Phil Nixon all hit one each. There were also maximums
LIVELY, up-beat and funky are the words to sum up the coming season at the Arc in Stockton. With a new artistic director, Michele Plews, concentrating on exciting theatre, and a programmer, Stuart Bowes, dealing with music, comedy and cinema, the venue
THE Market Town Revival campaign being run by the D&S Times has been praised by a leading figure in a pioneering programme to revitalise such communities in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The historic market town of Malton was chosen as the launching
A KNIFE-edge run-up to a first night performance could spark new moves for a Teesdale drama company. After one of the wettest Junes on record, ticket sales were slow for the Castle Players' annual outdoor production at the Bowes museum. Players' spokesman
OPERA lovers in London sing their praises and New York socialites can't get enough, and now the future looks even rosier for Elspeth Biltoft's Rosebud Preserves. She has been visited by Mr Dave Baron, a vice-consul at the British Consulate in Seattle,
BCTG.- July 18: Rally. For details ring Sheena on 730009. Bedale & West of Yore Hunts PC. - Aug 13: One day event at Richmond equestrian centre, sae for schedules to Mrs J Raw, West Lodge, Aske, Richmond, N Yorks, DL10 5HB. Bedale Hunt. - July 8:
A PLANNING official claims she was driven out of the job she loved by lack of respect and recognition from the departing head of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. In a blistering attack on Mrs Heather Hancock, who leaves her post as chief executive
A DAMPER has been put on Sunday trading in Darlington by the decision of the Queen Street centre to stay closed. The management has decided it would take the plunge only if at least 60pc of its shops were willing, but a poll showed a distinct lack of
IN RECENT days, I came across an old saying that summer begins when the flowers of the elder tree burst into bloom, and it ends when they ripen into elderberries. On my morning walk today (slightly more than a fortnight before these notes appear in print
THE soaring price of petrol is being partly blamed for an upsurge in motorists driving off without paying. In a bid to crack down on the problem, Cleveland police are pioneering a name and shame scheme for drivers. Those who speed off without paying for
Hambleton Ales Combination At the league's annual meeting, it was announced four new teams will compete in the league next season. Held at Northallerton Town FC club house, the Buck Inn, Northallerton, Ingleby Greenhow, Marne Dragons, Catterick and Vale
PARTS of East Cleveland were scenes of devastation this week after flash floods swamped villages. Skinningrove was worst hit in Sunday's deluge. Firefighters rescued people from upstairs windows as flood water contaminated with sewage flowed through the
POLICE are expecting up to 50,000 people to converge on Durham today for the 116th Miners Gala. The city centre will be a sea of colour and filled with the stirring sound of brass bands as the traditional parade makes its way past the Royal County Hotel
YORKSHIRE'S fear that the next dodgy pitch at Headingley will bring a points deduction helped Durham to become the first side to bat for a full day against the Tykes this season. It was a mystery why David Byas put Durham in on an excellent surface, but
Veteran Heartbeat star Bill Maynard, paralysed by a serious stroke, said last night that the hit show must continue. He has urged TV bosses to replace him with singer David Essex, playing a highly personable wheeler-dealer gypsy. They worked together
COUNTY Durham is leading the way in workforce development with a unique online toolkit, designed to help small and medium sized companies become more competitive. The Training Needs Analysis Toolkit, called Deva, uses a set of business analysis modules
THOUSANDS of pounds are expected to be raised by people with an outrageous taste in clothing, for the region's only children's hospice. Extrovert characters from companies in Cleveland and County Durham searched their wardrobes for garish and unsuitable
A NORTH-EAST city hall may be forced to back down after trading standards officers seized three sets of weighing scales from a fruit and veg trader because he was selling in imperial measures, it emerged yesterday. Sunderland City Council says it is reviewing
WILLING volunteers have restored a war memorial in a remote Yorkshire dales community. The stone memorial at Arkengarthdale needed repointing and its topstones relaying after the weather had taken its toll over the years. Work was completed on Saturday
CAMEROON striker Joseph-Desire Job is set to join Middlesbrough in a £3m move from French side Lens. Job, also a target for Italians Udinese, is due to link up with Boro next week and sign a four or five-year contract. Boro's interest in the 22-year-old
Everton will hold talks with Sunderland target Don Hutchison next week in a fresh bid to resolve his future. Hutchison has been in limbo since the club put the midfielder on the transfer list after he rejected a new contract offer, calling it a ''disgrace
A RIVERSIDE millennium green at Gainford is officially opened tomorrow. The ceremony will be performed at 2pm by Mrs Ann Allison, a tireless community worker who has lived in the village for 60 years. The event is the culmination of months of hard work
WORK on a £1.4 m extension to Thirsk Industrial Park has started, with 30 companies already expressing interest in moving on to the development. The 12.5 acre expansion is phase three in the development of the industrial park, which started in 1981 on
DAIRY farmers are probably losing more money than they care to admit, according to a second survey published this week. Carried out in spring by the Royal Agricultural Society of England and Deloitte and Touche Agriculture, it involved 194 detailed responses
MARTHA Lane Fox, it turns out, could be a chip off the old chopping block on which the venomous Sockburn Worm was killed nine centuries ago; verily a microchip in a story that runs from chain-mail to e-mail, from a dotty deed to a dot.com. The lastminute.com
FOLLOWING a successful annual meeting at the Kirkbymoorside British Legion Club, the Camerons Beckett League will operate with two divisions of ten teams each next season. A possible new club, Terrington, is hoping to join the second division and they
MANY of the region's farmers are struggling to survive on earnings of less than £200 a week - half the national average wage. New figures released yesterday showed the national average income per farm had dropped by nearly £3,000 to £9,500 a year and
THE current farming crisis might have caused thieves to turn their attentions away from farms, to concentrate on rural homes and businesses. Latest figures on rural crime released by the UK's leading rural insurer, NFU Mutual, show that the cost of burglaries
BARNARD CASTLE. - Wed. Fwd: 11 calves, 1,037 sheep. Bull calves to £150; hfrs to £75. Lambs std to 84.4p av 80.5p; med to 89.5p av 81.8p; heavy to 80p av 78.8p. Cast ewes: Mule to £27; Cont to £35.50; Suff to £30; horned to £14. BISHOP AUCKLAND. - Wed
Durham and District League Leeholme have taken the lead by one point in Division One at the halfway stage of the season after second-placed Shotton suffered a disastrous defeat when they played Bowburn. Shotton bounced back with an 8-2 home win over King
A FESTIVAL week of music and entertainment will provide a fitting build-up to a town's historic celebration. North Yorkshire millennium day is one of Northallerton's contributions to the year 2000 celebrations. The day itself will provide everything from
COUNCIL officers are proposing a shake up in the ward boundaries in Darlington - the first in almost a quarter of a century. The proposed changes would have a particular impact on two rural wards, Sadberge and Heighington, to accommodate a reduction in
OLYMPIC rider Karen Dixon is bringing her own horses to Richmond Equestrian Centre for a lecture and demonstration on Thursday, July 20 at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 for adults and £7.50 for children pre-booked, but tickets on the night are £2.50 extra.
OUR market town revival campaign was given the best possible news last week with official recognition of the need to help small towns in Yorkshire. The £340,000 average sum to be offered to six market towns to assist regeneration initiatives is a massive
YOUNGSTERS at a Guisborough school are the tops. Four in the same year group at Laurence Jackson school won a county title each at Cleveland Schools Athletics Championships at the Clairville Stadium in Middlesbrough. The Year 7 pupils who produced the
REBUILDING work on Mercury bridge in Richmond could start within a month, according to North Yorkshire County Council. The bridge has been completely closed for a month after flooding caused the collapse of the central pier. Restoration work on the bridge
COUNCIL officers in Darlington were forced to climb down this week after throwing a veil of secrecy over £27,600 of grants given to local businesses. The awards were announced by the newly-formed financial incentives panel earlier this week. According
AN ANIMAL adoption centre has had to cancel its major fundraising event after an outbreak of kennel cough. The Blue Cross animal shelter, at Topcliffe, near Thirsk was due to host its annual open day on Sunday. It is the centre's main fundraising event
THE championship race is now beginning to take shape as the halfway stage of the season is reached in the Premier Division, writes Alan Johnson. Leaders Saltburn asked Darlington to bat first on their visit to the seaside and they could only muster an
Worthington CIU Summer League Old Shildon maintained their two point lead at the top of the table in a match where Michael Pratt lifted the highest break for the season to 87. Michael gave Old Shildon the best start against the visiting Wheatley Hill
Crook Ladies League Reigning champions, Crook Coach and Horses faced a tough task in the first week of the new season when they visited Crook Travellers Rest however, they produced heir usual form to win by five points. Last season's runners-up, the Victoria
PIONEERING Dales farmer Mr Rob Fawcett hopes to sell organic milk by October next year. Tumbling prices for conventional milk, plus the fact that his farm misses out on environmentally sensitive area payments by just one mile, led to his decision to convert
COMMERCIALISM and sport are a dangerous mixture. The corruption claims which overshadowed the award of the Olympic Games to Sydney and Salt Lake City tarnished the image of the world's biggest sporting gathering. And now the award of the 2006 World Cup
AN OVERWHELMING community spirit has attracted people from all over the world to a village reunion. People are flocking to the small County Durham village of Witton Park from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, America, Holland, Belgium and Zambia
Mainsforth are hoping that their first league cup final appearance in over four decades can give their league season a lift. Mainsforth defeated Etherley in midweek to reach the league cup final for the first time since the 50's, and now they are hoping
WELL, in my view, he's only got himself to blame. No excuses, please. No squealing about the horrible pressures of modern life on a young man. When you do what he did this week and end up flat on your face in a public place, you've got to take it on the
A ROBBERY victim who has been unable to leave his house since his ordeal has had his claim for compensation turned down. Colin Evans applied to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority after the raid left him a virtual prisoner in his own home, only
