DANNY Wilson has signed Hull City striker Darryl Duffy on a two-month loan. After becoming frustrated with his side's attacking output of late, Wilson was desperate to boost his strikeforce, especially with Joel Porter likely to miss Saturday's game
WHAT'S ON: The Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Bernard Labadie, will perform two Haydn symphonies at The Sage Gateshead at 7.30pm tomorrow. Box office 0191-443 4661. REVIEWS: Zimmerman/Schiff, Duos for violin and cello (ECM New Series 476 3150) Violinist
WHAT'S ON: The Northern Sinfonia conducted by Bernard Labadie perform two Haydn symphonies at the Sage Gateshead at 7.30pm, next Friday. Bradley Creswick and Kyra Humphreys add Bach's Concerto for two violins, . 0191- 443 4661 REVIEWS: Tutto Mozart
WHAT'S ON: The Durham Sinfonia and Durham Singers, conducted by Baldur Bronniman will appear at Durham Cathedral at 7.30pm on Saturday. Tickets: 0191-384 3720 or at the door. Oistrakh/Rostropovich (BBC Legends BBCL 4197-2) David Oistrakh and Mstislav
REVIEWS Misterioso (ECM New Series 476 3156) Alexei Lubimov, heir to the great Russian piano tradition, has joined forces with compatriots Kyrill Rybakov on clarinet and violinist Alexander Trostkiansky to produce a feast of contemporary music. The
SOME of my fellow performers and folk enthusiasts have remarked in recent months of a worrying trend, wherein various ultra-right political parties are starting to hijack certain aspects of England's noble folk traditions, and reworking them to use in
AS we were driving across what used to be East Germany yesterday, my Bad Pennies and I were astonished to pick up a radio station beaming in from even further east, and playing a fine variety of UK folk music. It was interspersed with comments from
IF you've yet to sample the acoustic delights of Gateshead's Sage, then this week is a remarkable one in which to do so. I'm forever trying to impress upon people how rich in variety the folk music world can be, and the Sage's programme always speaks
AS long as I can remember, there has been a division within the folk scene between followers of what used to be called contemporary folk and those who preferred traditional folk, the guitar-strumming singersongwriter versus the unaccompanied balladeer
THE cream of the UK folk scene, on both a local and national level, cruises through the region in the next week, with a bit of international spice thrown in for good measure. Tonight's choices include current pack leaders Spiers and Boden at Blaydon's
WHAT'S ON: Tomorrow evening Kenny Ball and his band are at the Customs House, South Shields (0191-454 1234) and on Sunday choose between the Noel Dennis Band with guest Jim Mullen at Che Vita Ristorante Italiano, Durham (0191-384 1010) and Snake Davis
WHAT'S ON: Tonight the Renata D'Aiello Quartet is at Helperby Millennium Hall (Ripon Festival box office 01765 603994), and, on Tuesday, Stacey Kent and her musicians are at the Gala Theatre, Durham (0191 332 4041). REVIEWS Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
WHAT'S ON: Tomorrow the Cotton Club Party is at the Gala, Durham (0191-3324041) and, on Saturday, the Ray Chester Big Band with guest trombonist Mark Nightingale is at the Caedmon Hall, Gateshead (0191-4773-478). CD Reviews: The second batch of classic
WHAT'S ON: Tonight Body and Soul return to the Opus 4, Travellers Rest, Cockerton (01325) 468177 and Rod Mason's Quartet is at the Studio, Hartlepool; the Tony Kofi Trio plus Byron Wallen are at Darlington Arts Centre on Friday (01325) 48655 and at the
WHAT'S ON: The Preservation Jazz Band is at Darlington Arts Centre on Saturday lunchtime (01325) 486555, and Billy Jenkins' Songs of Praise at the Sage, Gateshead on Saturday evening (0870) 7034555. CD REVIEWS: Donald Byrd/Off to the races (Blue Note
WHAT'S ON: Next Wednesday singer Ruth Lambert and her Quartet are at Bishop Auckland Town Hall 01388-602610, and on Thursday (Nov 2) Tim Richards' Great Spirit are at The Sage, Gateshead 0870-7034555. CD REVIEWS: Tomasz Stanko Quartet/Lontano (ECM
George Strait: It Comes Just Natural JUST as Nashville was trying to shake off the hick image of country in the early 80s, an artist arrived wearing a stetson hat and western boots and launched his first record in London astride a trusty stallion.
Lonestar Mountains Sony/BMG BANDS so-called 'overnight' success is usually gleaned from thousands of miles travelled, eating as and where, sleeping rough and living out of a suitcase. Some 15 years ago a four-piece called Texasee were signed by
Alan Jackson: Like Red On A Rose (Arista) IT'S hard to believe but it's 17 years since Alan Jackson took the country world by storm with Here In The Real World. Since then he has recorded 15 albums, charted 31 numbers ones and had record sales of
These Days, Vince Gill (MCA Nashville) THEY say showbiz is one of those strange adventures where often it's a case of here today, gone tomorrow. But, if you have real talent, you needn't be in the public eye constantly to remind people of your existence
THE overheard conversation went: "Are you sure THE Dolly Parton's in Newcastle?", "Yes I read it in the country column of the Northern Echo last week." Before I could explain it was true and that I wrote the column the foursome, like Elvis, had left
I F you're at all interested in jazz it's hard to avoid the feeling that the singers have taken over. Certainly the biggest sellers and the ones you hear in the supermarkets and stores are all singers, from Norah Jones, Diane Kraal and Madeleine
TO be in with a chance of winning a contract with leading literary agent Caroline Sheldon, all you have to do is send the first chapter of your novel with a covering letter outlining your novel's synopsis, explaining who you are and which genre you see
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
A group of 21 nervous boys were at the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, in Darlington, for tough auditions late last week, their single aim - to win The Northern Echo's scholarship to train as a would-be Billy Elliot. Women's Editor Sarah Foster joined
MORE of not what we were taught. In the myth, 146 Britons, in a fort overrun by invading Indians, were locked overnight in a Calcutta cell just 14ft by 18ft. One hundred and twenty three of them died, of suffocation, thirst, and/or trampling. Starting
THIS is not what we were taught. The Pilgrim Fathers, those pious pioneers who quit heathen Britain to found modern America, virtually obliterated the native Wampanoag tribe. Between June 1675 and August 1676, they waged a bloody war in New England
IT is a mistake, says Dr Pryor, a former President of the Council for British Archaeology, to believe that early medieval towns were "a sprawl of poor houses dominated by one or two spectacular churches. . . Just like today, even before the 13th century
IT lasted a mere nine days, 80 years ago. But Britain's only general strike remains a defining moment in British politics. It is still etched deeply in the consciousness of mining communities, where it began. In response to a demand by the coal owners
THE gran of this story is a thoroughly modern person who dresses in jeans, hangs upside down from the frame in the playground and looks after toddler Stan and his baby sister, Annie, while their parents are at work. The loss of some keys is turned
THIS picture book takes us into a busy town street inhabited by five different young families full of pre-schoolers, babies, toys and pets. We go inside to see each of them playing, eating, bathing, getting ready for bed and settling down. The pictures
THIS unusual picture book is crammed with astonishingly surreal pictures so vivid they almost seem to move on the page. The Emperor of Absurdia is actually a toddler who sleeps in a flower, wears ridiculous clothes and lives in a world of dragons,
HERE'S a sizzling picture book to cheer up anyone of any age who's got the blues. Young rock singer Ziggi and his dog Albert see the world as full of trouble and strife and life as utterly pointless. They sing a sad song about this to the stars in
THERE'LL be plenty of oohs and ahs and sobs and tears in this reading of the adventures of a young boy from Northumberland between the wars who saves his falsely accused pit pony from the abattoir. Told simply but effectively by exNorthumberland journalist
CHILLING and thrilling short stories by the likes of Lee Child, David Morrell and Eric van Lustbader that take you to the Twilight Zone and beyond. There are also lesser lights such as David Dun with Spirit Walker who mixes Native American mysticism
THE three Stanford sisters or lasses live in the small Yorkshire steel town on Cottenly where life can be lived for fun in the peace of the pre-war world. But the war shatters everything for Alice, Lizzie and Ruth with adventure, opportunity and serenity
A Nazi conspiracy thriller that just runs and runs. The action starts when an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in London and his left arm is severed and takes in a fabled treasure shrouded in evil, mayhem on the street of St Petersburg and a secret order
SYLVIE Dugdale seems born for heartache and is grateful when a Liverpool policeman turns guardian angel, first saving her from drowning and then finding her a refuge in Dublin. And it is in Dublin that a crippled girl from the slums enters her heart
STAFF and residents at a home for vulnerable people were terrorised during a sickening early morning burglary this morning. Two intruders, one of them armed with a knife, broke into the council-run home for people with learning difficulties in Taylor
A PETITION begging councillors to stop Tesco building a giant supermarket in the heart of a NorthEast town has been signed by the equivalent of one in ten of the town's population. It has taken only five weeks for the Say No to Tesco in Darlington
The tide of opinion seems to be running against the Tesco supermarket proposed for the Feethams area of Darlington. But John McNally, who has lived in the town for nearly 40 years, and is now the regional organiser for the Chartered Institute of Building
ONE of the region's MPs has been criticised for not expressing a view on a proposal which would transform part of the centre of his constituency town. Tesco wants to build a supermarket in the centre of Darlington and construct Darlington Council a
PEOPLE POWER has dealt a blow to a supermarket that wanted to transform a NorthEast 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
Darlington Borough Council started talking to Tesco in October 2003. From the day The Northern Echo unearthed the company's link with the town, there has been opposition to the store. NIGEL BURTON reports TESCO went to great lengths to secure permission
THE end of a Tesco development could pave the way for a museum, a casino or a riverside park. Yesterday's Northern Echo exclusively revealed Darlington Borough Council was ready to reject proposals by Tesco to transform a quarter of the town centre
TWO teenagers were killed when their car left the road and struck a tree in North Yorkshire. The 19-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger died at the scene. A third passenger, a male aged 19, survived but his condition is described
For quality at price this is a 9/10 wine. It has a lovely deep cherry red colour and a complex bouquet of plums and cherries. It's full of fruit and gives the impression of not being completely dry. The integration of 13 alcohol with the fruit and
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Cryptic Clues ACROSS 9 Al seen in one country or another (9) 10 Gas ring on Zanussi’s original unit (5) 11 Fruit course by the sound of it (7) 12 The German died in a river (7) 13 Her co-star managed a band (9) 16 A label put back on Ethelred
A WOMAN had to be rescued from the roof of her flat after a blaze ripped through a parade of shops in Redcar. The fire started shortly before 3am yesterday with four fire crews needed to tackle the flames at the shops in Greenstones Road, the Ings, Redcar
A THIEF who stole a boiler and sold it for scrap metal has been given a five-year Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Crasbo) by a judge. Darren Goulding, 23, was said to have a string of convictions for dishonesty dating back 11 years. Teesside Crown
A SUPPORT service for disabled people has been revived in time for Christmas. The Redcar Shopmobility scheme, which was formerly run by the Redcar and Cleveland Disability Access Group, was forced to close its doors on the town's Esplanade in September
EASINGTON MP John Cummings has called on police to crack down hard on firework yobs in the run-up to bonfire night. Mr Cummings has urged local police to enforce new laws which could leave anyone misusing fireworks facing an £80 on-the-spot fine. The
YOUNG artists at two schools battled it out to produce a poster warning about the dangers of fireworks. Cleveland Fire Brigade challenged pupils from Owton Manor and Grange Primary schools, in Hartlepool, to create the poster to help reduce injuries during
THE search is on for Harry Potter lookalikes to add a little magic to the switch-on of Stockton's Christmas lights. Two lucky youngsters will be chosen from entries to the competition, open to five to 13-year-olds, and will join other mystery guests on
POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a woman suspected of shoplifting. The woman, who is thought to be in her 30s and of Asian appearance, was spotted going into the Wallis store in the Prince Bishops Centre, in Durham City, at about 1.30pm on Tuesday
AN annual conference yesterday gave residents the chance to air their views on a host of housing issues. The meeting of the District of Easington Tenants' and Residents' Federation was held in Peterlee Methodist Church. Among the main speakers was Katherine
A LARGE stockpile of used tyres went up in smoke following a factory fire. About 300 used tyres were destroyed in the blaze, which was reported at the Colway Tyres plant, at Langley Moor, near Durham, late on Tuesday. It is believed the fire spread from
MUSICIANS and singers are tuning up for an annual music festival this weekend. A Festival of Folk gets under way at the Robin Todd Centre, in South Hetton, near Peterlee, on Saturday, running until November 10. Former Lindisfarne member Steve Daggett
AFFORDABLE HOUSING: DURHAM'S Labour MP, Roberta Blackman-Woods, and her party show amazing hypocrisy over affordable housing in the city (Echo, Nov 1). It is Government policy that limits the capacity of councils to build affordable housing. Indeed,
PARENTS of nuisance off-road bikers are being targeted by police in the run-up to Christmas. Cleveland Police are handing out 11,000 leaflets to schoolchildren in Middlesbrough as they launch a crackdown on the anti-social behaviour of irresponsible riders
A Durham town is in for a dimmer Christmas because of the amount of repairs needed on ageing festive lights. It was seven years ago that Seaham Town Council purchased the current Christmas lighting display. But over the years, the weather in the coastal
A CHARITY is to stage a baby fair as part of a fundraising drive. The Durham branch of the National Childbirth Trust is to hold the fair on Saturday in St Nicholas' Church Hall, in the Market Place, Durham City. The branch has 110 members - up by 50 per
CLASSROOMS in the North-East are being transformed into temporary RAF bases in an attempt to make science more exciting. The RAF Real-life Science Workshop Tour is visiting five schools in the region this week and was yesterday at Farringdon School, in
SPORT at two schools will be discussed by councillors next week. Richmondshire District Council's community committee is being asked to decide whether to move indoor sport from Richmond School to the town's St Francis Xavier School for three years while
A FUNDRAISING night featuring soccer legend Norman Hunter raised almost £5,000 for a local football club. The former Leeds United and England defender was guest of honour at a sportsmen's dinner at Consett Civic Centre on October 26, to raise funds for
COUNCIL tax-payers are being given the chance to have their say on the multi-million pound budget which will dictate the level of next year's bills. North Yorkshire County Council is launching a consultation exercise ahead of next year's budget deliberations
POLICE are investigating the latest bout of vandalism at a children's day nursery in Bedale. Staff at Bright Beginnings, based in the former caretaker's bungalow in the grounds of Bedale High School, returned to work on Monday to find that intruders had
MINOR alterations to historic buildings in Richmond could require planning permission in the future. Town councillors will investigate a campaign to prevent the character of parts of the town from being spoiled. Members will survey conservation areas
A CHARITY that helps children learn to read is looking for volunteers. Community Service Volunteers (CSV) runs a programme called Right to Read in which volunteers go into primary schools and listen to children reading. The charity has about 40 volunteers
A PHOTOGRAPHER will sign copies of his latest book next week. Richard Jemison, who was born on Teesside, will be at Northallerton Bookshop, in Barkers Arcade, in the town, on Saturday, November 11. His new book, North Yorkshire One Nine Nine, has been
COUNCIL officers, farmers and wildlife enthusiasts have teamed up to create a haven for rare birds. Farmers John Davison and Sons, of Bishop Middleham, joined a stewardship scheme run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) about
SCHOOL pupils have started collecting Christmas presents early to ensure children in Eastern Europe share in the festive spirit. Youngsters at Le Cateau Primary School, Catterick Garrison, plan to collect 200 shoe boxes of gifts for Operation Christmas
MORE than half of council house tenants in a rural district have no home contents insurance, research reveals. A study by Richmondshire District Council's housing unit showed that most of the council's tenants could not afford it. The council could now
NOVICE astronomers can view the stunning night sky with help from a national park. The North York Moors National Park is hosting an astronomy night to introduce amateurs to the Milky Way and stars such as Andromeda. The free event will be run by York
SUPERMARKET staff are tinkled pink after breaking a fundraising target by more than £1,000. Events and collections at Asda, in Spennymoor, raised £8,000 for national charity Breast Cancer Care. During ten weeks of the Tinkled Pink fundraising and awareness
A school that last year gained a top award for its work in improving football has been honoured in a similar way for his efforts to develop rugby. There were cheers from players in both codes yesterday when the latest accolade was announced for Teesdale
TRANS-MISSION, a contemporary dance show featuring the work of three leading black choreographers, will tour County Durham next week. The tour starts at The Store, in Dipton, near Stanley on Tuesday, at 7.30pm, followed by Greenfield School Community
A CROOK man's outstanding training results have been recognised at an awards ceremony. In the past five years, Neil Murphy, 24, has gained qualifications in customer service, administration and training support, to name just a few of the subjects he
A COUNCIL has been recognised nationally for setting up an online database to keep staff and residents well informed. Sedgefield Borough Council has been presented with an Exemplar 2006 Award for using its website to keep up-to-date records on local services
PEOPLE living in Teesdale have been told to be extra careful after a rise in crimes in the area over the past week. Since October 24, ten crimes have been committed, prompting police to issue a plea for extra vigilance as the nights become darker. Sergeant
RESIDENTS have been taking advantage of a video link to talk to councillors and council officers. The facility has been installed by the Cornforth Partnership, in Cornforth House, West Cornforth. During a Question Time-style event - part of a national
Heighington and Conis-cliffe ward councillors Gerald Lee and Eric Roberts, who cover Piercebridge, will hold a ward surgery in Piercebridge church hall from 9am to 10am on Saturday.
BUSINESSES backing a French market coming to Thirsk want opinions on whether people support the idea. The organisers of a French market have asked to hold one in Thirsk regularly. Thirsk and District Business Association backs the idea and wants to know
BISHOP Auckland Choral Society is looking for singers for its Christmas concert in the town's Methodist Church on Saturday, December 16. The group rehearses at Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Tuesdays, from 7pm to 9pm. For details, call 01388-834359. Tickets
Willington Chrysanthemum Society will hold a flower show in Willington Methodist Chapel hall, at 3.30pm, on November 11. Trophies will be presented at 7.45pm, followed by the sale of the flowers. Admission is free.
A STUDENT has secured a scholarship to one of the world's leading universities. Rob Deeming will go to Harvard Business School, in the US, in May to study business administration. His scholarship was awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering on behalf
TWO publicans have beaten off competition from 60 others to win an award for floral excellence. Alan and Joy Woods, of the New Inn, at Thrintoft, near Northallerton, took the title of best beer garden in the Tadcaster Pub Company's annual contest. Their
A SUMMER crackdown on speeding motorcyclists will be extended to the winter off-road bike season. Operation Halter, run by North Yorkshire Police since 2003, targeted the Upper Dales, in particular Wensleydale, which has a high record of fatal and serious
GCSE exams out of the way, our eldest, The Big Friendly Giant, has started at sixth form, studying philosophy, chemistry, psychology and biology. At six feet two, he's on the cusp of manhood, enjoying his new-found freedom, and maturing like a lovely
IRAQ DEBATE: I'VE just witnessed what is called democracy in this country when a majority of MPs voted for no debate over the debacle which is the Iraq war. This Government expects the British Army to operate on two fronts, thousands of miles apart and
ALL the talk at Westminster is of the pain of rising "green taxes" to come, following this week's apocalyptic warning of looming climate change catastrophe. But it seems to me the politicians are failing to tell us just how much agony they must inflict
THE first member of the Durham Light Infantry to win the Victoria Cross for bravery has finally been honoured in his native Ireland. Sergeant John Byrne, 22, of Monteen, Castlecomer, Kilkenny, received the supreme award for gallantry in the face of the
INDUSTRY leaders have welcomed a Government move to fund a multi-million pound skills academy for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Skills are seen as the major barrier to the growth of the process industries in the North-East, which is estimated
THE UK's largest residential property investor on the stock market has strengthened its position in Germany with a £21.4m acquisition and the opening of a new office. The Grainger Trust, based in Newcastle, has acquired a 308-unit residential portfolio
DEAD MANS DANTE (2.45) returns to Haydock this afternoon in a bid to erase the memory of his latest disastrous visit to the track when crashing out of contention with a heavy fall at the third last fence. Graham Lee rode a waiting race on that occasion
Yorkshire entered a new era at Headingley Carnegie yesterday with the arrival on a four-year contract of Chris Adams as captain and head of professional cricket. But whether director of cricket David Byas still has a role to play with his native county
BOX office hit The Queen has sent sales of Barbour jackets soaring in the US. The North-East firm's Manhattan store has been inundated with shoppers asking for Barbour's Beaufort jacket since the film opened in New York. Award-winning actress Helen Mirren
Sicilian football is on a high with three teams in Serie A and Newcastle United's opponents Palermo flying high in the Italian top flight. Scott Wilson spoke to Italian football expert James Richardson about the game in Sicily. GIVEN the level of revulsion
THE future of a farmers' auction mart is up in the air after the company which reopened it following the foot-and-mouth crisis pulled out of livestock sales on the site. Skipton-based Craven Cattle Marts (CCM) has staged its final sale at Masham, North
HEALTH chiefs have gone back on promises to restore intensive care facilities for mental health patients in the north of County Durham. Since the closure of the Tony White Unit at the County Hospital, in Durham City, seriously ill patents have been treated
MYSTERY still surrounds the identity of a female pedestrian who died in a bus accident. Police last night said they were still no closer to naming the victim, who is believed to be in her 60s. With only a door key and a wedding ring in her possession,
A CONVICTED child molester has returned to the region after Thai authorities dropped a charge that he murdered his girlfriend. Registered sex offender Denis Gill, of Bensham, Gateshead, had been accused of plunging an 8in knife into his 26-year-old Thai
A ROW over a student's nose piercing has cost her nearly three weeks of her education. Leigh-Anne Hartzenberg was sent home from Woodham Community Technology College, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, for wearing a two-millimetre nose stud. The year
TESCO has turned to the North-East in to power its stores using green energy. The chain has appointed energy consultants TNEI, based in Newcastle, to help it install wind turbines at 43 of its supermarkets across the country. It hopes eventually to develop
BRITAIN'S farmers - and the Tees Valley region - have a crucial role to play in combating climate change, it was claimed yesterday. Peter Kendall, president of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), and Dr Dermot Roddy, chief executive of Renew Tees Valley
ONE Life: Tantastic (BBC1); The British UFO Mystery: Stranger Than Fiction (five): Cathy spends six months of the year in Scarborough - with her back to the sea. "If you face the sea, you don't get a tan," she explained. She's a sun-worshipper and beach-hutter
WORKERS at a Premier Foods' Quorn factory on Teesside will today vote on whether to accept a revised pay deal or press ahead with two 36-hour strikes. Unions last night told all 37 employees at the company's Billingham plant of the revised two-year pay
A GROUNDBREAKING order designed to stamp out anti- social behaviour has only moved the problem to another area of Darlington, according to residents. People living near the White Horse Hotel, in Harrowgate Hill, are concerned that trouble has spread
THE company that took on ICI's last manufacturing presence in the region is to make job cuts, it was confirmed last night. East Yorkshire-based Croda, which bought the Uniqema operation from ICI in September, said it is making 175 job cuts across Europe
SOFTWARE group Sage has completed its acquisition of French firm the Elit Group. The Newcastle company has paid £21m cash for Elit, which sells business management software to medium-sized firms in the French transport and food distribution sectors.
WHY is Mad Mickey Miller in a hotel bedroom with a half-naked man? And furthermore, the chap with the towel wrapped around his middle is none other than the boyfriend of Mad Mickey's sister Dawn Swann. Observers in Soapland are used to peculiar goings-on
CONCERNS have been raised over proposed new apartments in Hurworth. A planning application has been lodged to turn Oxford Garage and car showroom, in Hurworth Road, into nine two-bedroomed apartments. But at a meeting of Hurworth Parish Council on Tuesday
TESCO: THE Say No to Tesco in Darlington group would like to thank all the traders and residents who helped our campaign and all the thousands of local people who supported us by signing our petition, displaying our posters and writing to the borough
PUPILS from Branksome School, in Darlington, are among the latest to learn about the timber industry thanks to a project run by the Great North Forest. The Seed to Saw programme, made possible thanks to a £1,320 grant from Procter and Gamble, teaches
A COUNCIL department has received a top rating during its annual assessment. Darlington Borough Council's children service department gained the top mark for its social care services. It was part of the assessment carried out by the Commission for Social
BUSINESSES in Darlington have received gold and silver awards for introducing no smoking rules at work. The companies worked with the borough council to achieve National Clean Air Awards, which were developed by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and
children at a Darlington out-of-school club have been raising money to help other youngsters. Children from the club at Just Learning Nursery, in Newton Lane, raised money for the NSPCC's Stop for Tea campaign, which asks organisation and individuals
CHILDREN from a Darlington primary school are celebrating after shooting and tackling their way to victory in a football tournament on Tuesday. Year six boys from Dodmire Primary School were named as winners of an inte- school tournament held at Hurworth
AN animal charity is looking for a new home for a dog whose owners were forced to give her up. The National Animal Sanctuaries Support League, near Darlington, is looking for a new owner for Sasha, a five-year-old long-haired German shepherd bitch. Sasha's
STUDENTS at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, in Darlington, organised a St Trinian's Day to raise money for St Teresa's Hospice. Students and staff wore their old school uniforms and bucket collections of loose change were taken. At lunchtime there
A DARLINGTON businessman is travelling to the US to raise money for charity. Andy Brown, managing director of CP Offset Printers, is to take part in the New York Marathon on Sunday to raise funds for homeless charity Stop2Night. The 56-year-old has competed
FOLLOWING Dave Penney's appointment on Monday, skipper Clark Keltie believes Darlington have a manager whose proven track record with Doncaster Rovers could hold the key to promotion. Penney, who expects to make an addition to the coaching staff, got
Aston Villa flop Marcus Allback came good at just the wrong time to halt Manchester United's charge towards the Champions League knockout stage. An unmitigated disaster during his time at Villa Park, the Swede as the man who bundled home the 73rd-minute
A MEDAL awarded to a pitman who helped an amateur football team win the first World Cup is to stay in the North-East after failing to meet its reserve at auction yesterday. West Auckland Football Club won the first Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy in Turin, after
A GROUP of "disaffected" North-East pupils are being tempted to stay in the classroom with a radical new approach - allowing them to smoke between lessons. College chiefs have contacted the parents of the 30-plus students for permission to allow their
WOMEN who opted for cut-price cosmetic surgery abroad are inundating a North-East hospital with pleas for help after their operations went disastrously wrong. Plastic surgeons at The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, have carried out emergency
OF course there must be a full scale independent inquiry into Iraq. Britain has spent £4bn pursuing military action in which 90 of our soldiers have been killed in active service and which has killed nearly 50,000 Iraqi civilians. Given the scale of
THEY might have travelled to Italy without some of their most influential players, but Newcastle have enlisted the help of one of the biggest names in world football as they look to maintain their unbeaten European record in Palermo tonight.French World
They first got together 40 years ago to save old railway engines for posterity. Now, though theirs is a great success story, members of the Locomotice Group feel they may be running out of steam and are on the lookout for some young volunteers. IT'S
DEVELOPERS unveiled detailed plans of a town's new £14m out-of-town cattle mart yesterday.Linlathen Developments revealed early proposals for an agricultural and equine centre on farmland about two miles west of Darlington town centre.The site is at
A NORTH-EAST student has died suddenly only days before the start of a round-the-world trip.Louise Catterall, 21, from Croft, near Darlington, was yesterday described as "the life and soul of the party" by her parents.She died of a severe asthma attack
GIVEN that securing European football was integral to Glenn Roeder's appointment as Newcastle boss, it is somewhat ironic that the embattled Magpies manager has been forced to temporarily shift his sights away from continental competition in an attempt
A LORRY driver was taken on a terrifying early-morning journey by masked hijackers, who targeted his load of electrical equipment worth thousands of pounds.Police in North Yorkshire were yesterday saying little about the incident, which led to reminders
HARTLEPOOL manager Danny Wilson is still in the market for a prolific striker but insists there will be no sentimental homecoming for former fans' favourite Adam Boyd.Wilson once again observed his misfiring side fail to make serious inroads into a stubborn
ROY KEANE'S message for every member of the Sunderland squad is a simple one according to Graham Kavanagh - shape up or ship out!The midfielder was back in first-team action on Tuesday six weeks after damaging knee ligaments in the 3-1 defeat at Ipswich.He
A MOTHER has narrowly avoided custody after admitting being drunk in charge of her daughter on three occasions.Lisa Thompson was told she would have faced immediate imprisonment if she had not pleaded guilty to the charges when she appeared at Teesside
IT'S a long way from Hollywood, but film chiefs in the region hope to win more starring roles for Durham City.Northern Film and Media, which promotes the region's own movie industry and the use of the region as a location for TV and movie productions,
In his hard-hitting column in The Northern Echo last week, Ray Mallon, the Mayor of Middlesbrough and former head of Middlesbrough CID, suggested sloppy financial management and a reluctance to "come clean with the public" had resulted in Durham Police
As Spike Milligan's agent and friend for 36 years, Norman Farnes saw every facet of the comic genius' character. She tells Lindsay Jennings what life was like with the real Spike. NORMA Farnes pushed open the doors to the Edwardian building on a bitterly
