As thrilling and as dramatic as it became it was also humiliation. Cold, dark, miserable humiliation. There can be no other word for the way Greg Rusedski exited Wimbledon after four hours of unbearable tension, at the hands of a man with the worst losing
HARTLEPOOL United are ready to step in for Darlington defender Craig Liddle. The Feethams favourite is out of contract and is expected to hold talks with Quakers' boss David Hodgson about a new deal in the next 48 hours. He has already spoken to First
Marco Gabbiadini looks set to join Second Division Northampton Town this afternoon - the day after eight players were released from Feethams. The Darlington striker is to end his prolific two-year stay at Feethams by joining the Cobblers, who overtook
AN 81-year-old woman who scooped top place in a scarecrow competition with a nude woman posing as one of the famous Yorkshire Women's Institute calendar girls admitted afterwards: "I wish I'd done the Queen Mum instead." Janet Asquith's entry proved a
FEARS over the future of the steel industry on Teesside grew last night after Corus, formerly British Steel, announced disappointing half-year results. The company blamed the high value of the pound for continuing losses in its business, and raised the
NOW we know the chemical formula that makes up a single human. It is vast. It is three billion letters long. If it were printed out, it would fill 200 500-page telephone directories. If it were typed out, it will fill 750,000 A4 pages. So that is a single
FILM fans from the region have hit out at Hollywood's latest attempts to recreate British film history. Plans to Americanise two of the classic Ealing comedies - hot on the heels of a remake of Tyneside-made thriller Get Carter - look set to be equally
A NORTH-EAST couple has saved the jobs of hundreds of care workers after the future of a large residential development was threatened. Portland House in Willington is not only home to elderly people and vulnerable adults with learning disabilities, but
NEWCASTLE-bound Carlos Daniel Cordone was last night grounded as the 24-hour strike by French air traffic controllers delayed his arrival on Tyneside. The Argentinian forward was left stranded in Spain after flying out of Buenos Aires in a bid to rubber-stamp
LAWYERS are lining up to launch legal action against the North-East police force at the centre of an anti-corruption inquiry, a Labour MP and barrister warned last night. Middlesbrough MP Stuart Bell claimed that Cleveland Police could face civil actions
A TRAIN crashed through a steel barrier and ploughed across 30 yards of wasteland after it ran off the tracks on Teesside yesterday. The train came to rest only 40ft from and 12ft above busy Station Street, on the edge of Middlesbrough town centre. The
ENGLAND international and Newcastle United star Kieron Dyer spent a night in hospital at the weekend after an incident in a nightclub. Dyer, 21, who joined the Magpies last year from Ipswich Town for £6m, is thought to have been glassed in the face. Police
WATER watchdog Ofwat's National Customer Council is determined to see that customers are protected in the wake of Yorkshire Water's recent announcement that it wants to transform itself into a mutual society. "Our sole concern is how will these proposals
STAFF at Conroys had to be wide awake to keep pace with the demands of insomniacs and bargain hunters who queued up from midnight at a special midsummer event. Conroys, which has outlets in North Shields, Stanley, Washington, Gateshead MetroCentre, Teesside
