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North-East Journalist of the Year Mike Amos, who writes the popular Eating Owt column in The Northern Echo, stays close to home as he checks out various eateries within a few minutes' walk of the Echo's offices. READERS may be familiar with the phrase

Think of traditional values and one of the first images that springs to mind is the wholesome goodness of the farmhouse kitchen, home-grown produce transformed by well-honed skills into the familiar tastes and smells of the food which built a nation.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a young woman's body was found in a petrol soaked flat. The 29-year-old man arrested was still in the flat, at the Vallum Court tower block in Newcastle's run down west end, when police arrived

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YOBS stoned a bus carrying passengers and then a police car which went to help, on Teesside, last night. The brick thrown at the Arriva bus travelling through Grangetown, near Middlesbrough smashed through window hitting one woman on her arm, hurling

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For 1,000 years, Christians have visited the shrine of St Cuthbert, but Marjorie McIntyre discovers there are many other reasons for people to make a pilgrimage to the ancient City of Durham. DOMINATED by its magnificent cathedral and castle, historic

A MAN had to leap for his life from a flat window, after arsonists attacked a block of flats in Middlesbrough. In a separate, unrelated arson attack in the same town, on the same night - Monday - a fire raiser broke into a house and started two fires

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With the festive season almost upon us, thoughts turn to pretty accessories to put the pizazz into a party outfit. We find some gems to put you firmly in the spotlight. Glitzy shoes from New Look, from £20 Faith's Lyther heels, £60 A-list stilettos

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AN advice website for teenagers in County Durham is proving popular, attracting 10,000 hits a month. www.Help4Teens.co.uk , designed by Newcastle agency Indigo, was launched by Connexions County Durham and gives information ranging from from jobs, training

TOWN hall officials have won top marks in a national competition. The councillor in charge of the winning team at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, said the highly recommended recognition won by the authority's health and social wellbeing directorate

YOUNGSTERS who attended a recent music event in Hartlepool have been praised for their behaviour by police. More than 500 young people under 16 took part in the Sweet-by-the-Sea event earlier this month, based on the successful Sweet event at Club M.

THREE friends who have pledged to raise £9,000 for charity will hold an auction of promises on Friday. Charlotte Barker, 25, and Racheal Walker, 24, of Leyburn, and Katie Duncan, 24, from Richmond, are to trek through Thailand for Breast Cancer Care

AN award-winning junior football club fears it could become a victim of its own success if it isn't able to recruit more volunteers. The FA recently named Consett YMCA Juniors the Best Charter Standard Club in County Durham, but organisers fear things

A GARDENING expert will come face-to-face with green-fingered fans at a charity event. BBC Radio Cleveland's gardening expert Alan Dellamore will be at Strikes Garden Centre, Stokesley, from 7pm to 9pm, on Wednesday, November 22. He will be handing out

STAFF at a primary school are celebrating after winning a national award for their work in information and communications technology. Burnopfield Primary School, near Stanley, has become one of the first schools in the country to be awarded the ICT Mark

A WAR of words has broken out between two politicians as the future of maternity and childcare services comes under scrutiny. A report by Professor Ara Darzi recommends the creation of a centre of excellence for maternity and children's services in Hartlepool

WHEN it comes to throwing a party, two east Durham men are proving nobody does it better. Dominic Cassidy and Keith Stirman have turned their partying into a full-time business. The men first met when they worked at Samsung, and Keith filled in his spare

TICKETS went on sale yesterday for a rock festival which organisers hope to make an annual event. Four local bands, including Skinflint and Prognosis, have been confirmed for the Mid-Winter Indoor Rock Festival, to be held at Annfield Plain Cricket Club

PEOPLE are being urged to have their say in an inquiry into the state of a town's railway approaches. An open meeting of Hartlepool Council's regeneration and planning services scrutiny forum will be held in training room 3 at the Municipal Buildings,

A FOOTBALL team that changes in the street has come under fire from a village resident. Most people living in Skelton, near York, have accepted the sight of muddy semi-naked players from Skelton FC as part of village life. But now one woman has complained

A BURGLAR who dodged justice in 2004 was jailed for 18 months yesterday. Police were alerted when neighbours overheard Craig Hull and another burglar breaking into an unoccupied flat at 2am in February 2004. After rifling the premises, they smashed a

A COUNCILLOR has called for tougher action against horse riders who damage public open spaces. Andrew Sherris, who represents Yarm on Stockton Borough Council, is angry about the impact of horses on land at the town's Leven Park. Councillor Sherris said

SERVICES will be more comfortable for clergy at a parish church thanks to the gift of two oak stools in memory of a worshipper. Widow Joyce Gunton gave the specially-made items to St Mary's Church, in Richmond, in memory of her husband, Bing, who died

THINGS will be going bump in the night at a County Durham pub tonight. Spirits will not just be behind the bar at The Ship Inn, in Middlestone Village, near Spennymoor, but in every corner of the haunted building. Dressed as a ghostly gentleman, landlord

NEW native woodland that will provide a home for rare wildlife on an Army firing range has received national recognition. More than 600 trees have been planted on 15 hectares of land near Wathgill Camp, above the village of Stainton, between Richmond

A TOWN council has promised to keep searching for cash to improve security at a Victorian park after its first bid for funding was turned down. Shildon Town Council is assuring residents it will explore every possible way to pay for security cameras in

AN under-pressure health trust will hold its first board meeting next week. The North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) replaced the county's four smaller primary care trusts on October 1. Health chiefs admit the new trust had taken on a deficit

A TEESDALE producer has been giving talks to an international retail company in London about her award- winning methods. Lisa Hodgson, of Loopy Lisa's Fudge, was invited to a Marks & Spencer staff training day at its headquarters in the capital. The day

GANGS of youths who throw fireworks are being targeted as part of a major crackdown. Police and council officials in Hambleton district say they will be taking a no-nonsense approach to troublemakers in the run-up to Bonfire Night. It aims to catch nuisance

A PARISH council's vice-chairman - suspended for breaching a code of conduct over the sacking of the clerk - had his appeal against the decision upheld yesterday. The Adjudication Panel for England agreed with Stanhope Parish Councillor Richard Mews'

AN environmentally-friendly holiday site was fully booked during its first week of business. The Ecobuild development, on the outskirts of Richmond, opened for the half-term holiday last week, and all ten lodges were rented out. Owners of the development

A CONSERVATION charity will launch a website complete with an online shop today. Customers all over the world will be able to buy merchandise from the homepage of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT), www.ydmt.org, at the touch of a button. The

MORE than 300 music fans from Teesdale will go to an annual gig next month on the same day as its organisers learn where their future lies. The Big Live Gig, organised by Teesdale Community Resources (TCR), will showcase ten young Teesdale rock bands

POLICE found more than they were bargaining for when they raided a flat aiming to arrest a suspect, a court heard. For while officers searched the ground-floor premises, in Welland Close, Peterlee, County Durham, they came across a secure rear bedroom

A NORTH Yorkshire student is planning to hitchhike to Africa for charity. Iain Montgomery, 18, will set off on the 1,200-mile journey next Easter. The former Richmond School pupil is studying for a degree in management studies at the University of Nottingham

YOUNGSTERS at a village school are marking the move into new premises by researching the life of the old building. The entire 223-pupil Easington Lane Primary School, near Houghton-le-Spring, spent the first few weeks of this school year preparing for

PEOPLE living in the Great Lumley area are protesting over cancellation of a bus service which provides them with a lifeline to Newcastle and Gateshead. Passengers must now tra-vel into Chester-le-Street to get a connecting service - resulting, they say

Last year on Halloween I made some City girls scream. I was on my way to a livery company dinner at Drapers' Hall and, as it was a very cold night, I was wearing my thick black priest's cloak. I must say I think it's a bit much when girls see a man

Sharon Griffiths meets Car park attendant Doreen Roberts. DOREEN Roberts is the face of the future - so it's reassuring that she's so cheerful. More of us, we're told, are going to have to work longer. In the not so distant future, retirement at 65 will

Tripping Over (five); The Girl Who Survived Rabies: Extraordinary People (five): Cold Feet creator Mike Bullen has his name on the new series Tripping Out - also about a group of friends and their families coming to terms with, well, anything you care

TWO-THIRDS of drivers in the North-East believe running a vehicle costs less than a quarter of the true figure. New figures released reveal that drivers in the region estimate monthly running costs to be less than £100 when in reality they are on average

LEADING North-East businessman CHRIS THOMPSON has been appointed deputy chairman of regional development agency One NorthEast. Mr Thompson, chief executive of Team Valley-based Express Group, which provides engineering, design, product development and

WAN Hunter owner Jaap Kroese has sold off all the machinery at his mothballed Tyneside shipyard. The Dutch millionaire said it was the "hardest decision" of his working life to sell the equipment to an unnamed buyer for an undisclosed sum. Mr Kroese said

THE company behind a multi-billion pound takeover of Corus yesterday said its profit rose by 5.4 per cent between July and September. Tata Steel, which last week won backing for its 455p-per-share takeover bid for Corus, is expected to post a 7.3 per

AN amateur photographer was killed for his camera bag in a botched mugging, a court heard yesterday. Brave Lee Phipps paid with his life when he tried to fight off mugger Scott Nichols, who repeatedly stabbed him - including one fatal wound to the heart

CUTS in farmgate milk prices and rising costs could give tenant dairy farmers the opportunity to win a rent reduction from their landlord. Robert Sheasby, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) rural surveyor, told a meeting of the NFU Yorkshire Tenants Forum

A DRUNKEN civilian who drove a tank over a car, and his soldier friend, who filmed the prank, could face criminal charges, Army chiefs said last night. Ministry of Defence bosses yesterday condemned the incident at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.

THE TTE Technical Training Group has appointed CRAIG CROWTHER as its organisational development manager. Mr Crowther, who joined TTE as a consultant last year, will be responsible for strategic planning and organisation of the UK divison of the business

THE Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed ANDY PICKFORD as an associate director for corporate business development in its invoice finance division. Mr Pickford joins the bank from HSBC where he worked for 17 years, most recently in a business development

lNewcastle Business School, part of Northumbria University, has appointed BOB WOODWARD as associate dean of its corporate management development centre. He joins from Nottingham Business School, where he successfully launched a centre for management development

SCIENTISTS in the region have become the first in the world to create an artificial human liver. The liver, which was created by manipulating human stem cells taken from the Newcastle Umbilical Cord Blood Bank, is a scientific breakthrough. It is the

KEVIN BARBER has been appointed at Davids of Ripon's Peugeot and Nissan dealership. Mr Barber worked at Williamsons, in Spennymoor, formerly Nelsons, in 1978, and was aftersales manager from 1984, until the dealership went into administration in September

thieves have put a 134-year-old church at risk by ripping out its copper lightning conductors. If St Laurence's Church, in Middleton St George, was to be struck by lightning in a storm, the results could now be disastrous without the conductors carrying

CATTERICK'S meeting hinges on a 7.30am inspection, but if it does get the green light then the predicted rain-sodden surface holds no fears for Up Tempo (3.00). Weight, or rather lack of it, will be a key issue when it comes to galloping through the

A HEART attack patient has described control room staff as guardian angels after they kept his spirits up while he waited for an ambulance. Colin Hansell, 66, dialled 999 after he suffered an attack at night while alone at home in Sleights, near Whitby

ZODIAC Training has expanded its team with the appointment of HILARY RAMSHAW. Ms Ramshaw, below, from Consett, has been recruited to help place young people in apprenticeships throughout the North-East. She will work closely with Connexions and Jobcentreplus

RISK specialist BILL HENRY has joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a partner and head of risk assurance services practice in the North-East and Yorkshire. He has more than 20 years' experience across a range of sectors, and brings a significant depth of

STRIKE action at Premier Food's Quorn factory on Teesside could be averted if workers agree to a revised two-year pay deal. Premier was locked in talks with unions for three hours yesterday in a bid to avoid two 36-hour walk-outs, the first of which is

THE sound of African drums rang out at a Darlington library last week. Children got to play the drums as part of Live Africa -a look at the culture of Africa - to tie in with the national Black History Month. Visitors to the Crown Street Library were

A BEST-selling author, broadcaster and TV personality has helped reward pupils at a Darlington school. Gervase Phinn, best known for such books as The Other Side of the Dale, was the guest speaker at the annual awards ceremony at Polam Hall School. The

BENFIELD Motor Group has appointed NIGEL McMINN as managing director. The move is part of a wider reorganisation of the senior team at the Newcastle-based group. Benfield is one of the largest private companies in the UK with 26 dealerships and more than

A PORTRAIT has been created as a lasting reminder of a landmark hotel which is due to be bulldozed. Darlington artist Andrew White has painted the picture of the White Horse Hotel, in Harrowgate Hill, which is to be demolished for flats. Mr White was

SANDERSONS estate agency has appointed MELISSA LINES, and JILL REESE to the role of director. Ms Lines has 12 years' experience working in estate agencies and new home developments. She joined Sandersons more than two years ago, after working for Bryant

MOTOR retailer Sherwoods has appointed a new body shop manager. MIKE KELLY brings more than 30 years' experience to his new role, having started his career as a paint sprayer. He will manage a team of 26 staff, whose responsibilities range from panel

IT'S every child's dream come true. A parent who makes midnight feasts, lets you drive a car and devises all sorts of exciting adventures. But Danny's dad is also a poacher and together they set out to pull off a seemingly impossible plan. Can they

The road to Wembley, or wherever it may be that the FA Cup is this season finally presented, continued on Saturday with a trip to Lincolnshire, Gainsborough Trinity v Whitley Bay. Originally, perhaps inevitably, Trinity were a church team, formed in 1873

IT'S a competition which hardly ignites the passion at this stage, but there's little doubt Hartlepool United have been stirred by the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Pools meet Doncaster Rovers at Victoria Park tonight, with club officials and boss Danny Wilson

The North East Business and Innovation Centre has recruited ANNIE HAMILTON as its conference facilitator. In her new role, Ms Hamilton, who lives in Sunderland, will be responsible for taking conference bookings, organising catering, visitor welcome

Insurance expert NICOLA STEPHENSON has joined the commercial department of BiB insurance brokers in Northgate, Darlington. The 35-year-old joined the insurance industry at the age of 18 when she worked for her father's firm, Ian Whitfield and Co, in Victoria

MANAGER Roy Keane prepared for tonight's match with Championship leaders Cardiff by demanding he wants more from his in-form and versatile captain Dwight Yorke. Yorke continued his rich vein of form following his arrival at the Stadium of Light last month

IT company Advantex Network has made a number of appointments. The Houghton-le-Spring company has taken on engineering apprentices and additional sales staff. CRAIG MILNE, 21, ALAN SCOTT, 32, and PAUL CARSON, 18, join as network engineers. Chris Shields

A network to promote creative businesses in South Tyneside is being launched tomorrow. The network, called the Spectrum Project, will aim to encourage the creative businesses in the area to form a steering group to lobby on behalf of the sector. The long-term

A MAN has been charged with the murder of a mother who was found dead in her home. David William Summers, 21, from the Blyth area, was last night charged with the murder of Diane Edwards, who had suffered injuries to her head and body. He is due to appear

ANTOINE Sibierski is expected to hand embattled Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder a major boost tomorrow morning by joining the rest of the Magpies squad on their flight to Sicily. While Roeder is keeping his cards close to his chest ahead of Thursday night's

Online gambling group 888 Holdings has fuelled expectations of a major deal. The operator said it was in talks with other firms following the US ban on internet gambling, but did not identify the companies involved. The statement was made a day after

AFTER bringing his search for a new manager to a successful conclusion with yesterday's appointment of Dave Penney, Darlington chairman George Houghton has welcomed what he believes is a "great coup" for the club. In handing the former Doncaster Rovers

HAVING built a reputation as one of the best young managers in the Football League with Doncaster Rovers, Dave Penney hopes to raise his stock further by repeating his success at Darlington. Penney was yesterday unveiled as David Hodgson's successor,

CLIMATE CHANGE: THE game is up. We are being told of the gargantuan sums of money needed to make any impression at all on man-made climate change. It is not going to happen. It would be better to do nothing. First, in the space of one generation, changes

When Dave Penney vacated his position as manager of Doncaster Rovers in August, Rovers' chairman reckoned he was set for a job with a higher profile, probably at Championship level. Penney had walked out on the remaining two years of his contract, but

IKEA and ILVA. Even the names are so alike that you would swear they were linked. Well as I found out at first hand, they're definitely not. In fact, they're going head to head in what has become a brand new trade war. I went to Metro Retail Park, beside

WHAT a relief! Darlington is now unlikely to be Tescofied. Congratulations to the council for its consultation exercise which, despite its Asda splutter, has been wide-ranging. And even bigger congratulations to the council for actually listening to the

TESCO went to great lengths to secure permission for a superstore in Darlington. It offered to build Darlington Borough Council a new town hall worth £14m, to redevelop a site that had, by common agreement, become something of an embarrassment and to

A Natural Beauty You may have seen her, Strolling down a country lane. With a basket full of heather. A complexion glowing with health Toned by a life in the open weather. From her ear lobes Under raven hair Glinted earrings made of gold Handed down from

TWO more terrible examples of cruelty to cats have added to the North East's animal cruelty league of shame. Animal welfare officers were last night hunting a youth who hurled a ginger and white cat over a 6ft wall into a garden in Darlington. It was

AS part of The Northern Echo's lifeblood campaign, which aims to encourage people to give blood, here are details of forthcoming donor sessions:TODAY Methodist Church Hall, Bede Way, Peterlee. 10am-7pm URC Church, Cypress Road, Marton, Middlesbrough.

A GP who believes that a simple vitamin deficiency is responsible for many illnesses has revealed how he has spent thousands of pounds of his own money treating his patients.Dr Joseph Chandy, a long-serving family doctor in Horden, County Durham, is convinced

A TALL call centre worker is suing Barclays after claiming the company caused him a back injury by giving him a desk that was too small.Lofty 6ft 7in Gareth Judd is fighting for compensation even though he later spent five days hunched inside a Ford Focus

Publisher: Microsoft Formats: PC Price: £49.99/59.99 Family friendly? 3+ (although young children will find this too complex) IN an industry where a lifespan is measured in months it takes

SUNDERLAND loan signing Lewin Nyatanga may have spent less than two weeks on Wearside but yesterday he confessed that he would welcome a chance to make his deal permanent. Nyatanga arrived at the Stadium of Light from Derby County 11 days ago, but admitted

STRIKE action at Premier Food's Quorn factory on Teesside could be averted if workers agree to a revised two-year pay deal. Premier was locked in talks with unions for three hours yesterday in an attempt to avoid two 36-hour walk-outs, the first of which

THE region's police forces will be left at least £1.3m out of pocket after the fiasco of abandoned plans to merge them. The Home Office announced yesterday it would give the four North-East and North Yorkshire forces £305,176 to help with the extra

PEOPLE POWER has dealt a blow to a supermarket that wanted to transform a North-East town centre. The Northern Echo can reveal that plans for a Tesco in Darlington are to be booted out by councillors. Britain's biggest retailer wanted to build a Tesco

HOUSEBUILDER Wilcomm Homes expects turnover to jump to about £24m over the next two years after expanding and launching a construction division. The company, based on Doxford International Business Park, Sunderland, has already clinched two contracts

Manchester City 1, Middlesbrough 0. ON the night Ben Thatcher returned from an eight-game suspension dished out for a devastating forearm smash, Middlesbrough suffered their own heavy blow - and one that could easily have been heavier.Thatcher, back

New Darlington manager Dave Penney will have money to strengthen his squad once the transfer window opens in January according to chief executive Jon SotnickThe former Doncaster Rovers boss was unveiled yesterday as the replacement for David Hodgson,

ONE of the country's worst phone pests - who bombarded the emergency services with nuisance calls - has been jailed and banned from owning a mobile phone.David Attwood, 32, from Teesside, was given an 18-month sentence after he made more than 1,300 calls

Literary agent Caroline Sheldon tells Lindsay Jennings why she loves discovering new authors and what makes the best would-be novelists stand out. CAROLINE Sheldon can usually tell straight away when she's made an exciting literary discovery - the hairs

Up to 200 million people could become refugees as a result of flooding or drought unless climate change is tackled, says a new report. Lindsay Jennings looks at the threat of global warming. IT WAS the day an entire village became a river. In just a

Fell walkers are latching on to a new craze for using satellite systems to guide them around. Sheila Weber joins a special training course in the Lake District to see how it works in practice. QUITE what old Alfred Wainwright would have made of it