Sunderland 2 Coventry City 0 IT was a Trinidad and Tobago one-two at the Stadium of Light on Saturday as Dwight Yorke and Carlos Edwards saw Sunderland back to winning ways against the Sky Blues. Yorke grabbed his third goal of the season in the
Middlesbrough 1 Arsenal 1 THIERRY HENRY was Arsenal's fox in the box as Middlesbrough's best attempts to claim all three points at the Riverside Stadium were dashed. Boro had controversially taken the lead just after the hour mark when Aiyegbeni
PROMOTION-CHASING Hartlepool moved into the top three in League One after a 1-0 win at Swindon. Winger Andy Monkhouse - a former Swindon player -scored the only goal of the game, heading in a Ritchie Humphreys corner minutes into the second half. Swindon's
POLICE are investigating an alleged indecent assault at a school. The incident is believed to have taken place at Saltburn's Huntcliff School. It is thought to have involved a female pupil who was chased into the boys' changing room by male students
THE potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found among turkeys in a Bernard Matthews poultry farm in Suffolk, the EU Commission confirmed today. Tests for the dangerous form of avian flu were carried out at the European Union laboratory
CHILDREN have taken a project that raises awareness of global citizenship to heart.The 55 year three children from Highcliffe Primary School, Guisborough, worked with local artist Paul Newman for a week, using recycled newspapers, to create eight hearts.Co-ordinated
A CHURCH, described as a fortress by its minister, is beefing up security in a bid to ward off vandals. Browning Avenue Baptist Church, in Hartlepool, has suffered at the hands of yobs for years. The building has regularly been damaged, and covered in
SCHOOLS in Derwentside could get a cut-price night at the opera, thanks to a local businessman. Alan Godfrey Maps, of Leadgate, which reprints early Ordnance Survey maps and is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is helping to fund Swansea City Opera's
WORK on a three-month project to protect flood-hit properties from storm water will begin next week. Contractors from Yorkshire Water will move into Thirsk Market Place on Monday. The scheme involves the construction of a small pumping station and an
A HOMELESS man who pulled a knife on a terrified teenager and told him he would die was spared prison yesterday. Eighteen-year-old Josh Brown fled in fear after Jonathan Sheppard, 48, held a lock-knife to his throat as he sat in a friend's house in Newton
PUPILS at a North Yorkshire school have celebrated Burns Night in style. Children from Richmond Church of England School sang songs and listened to bagpipe music to mark the birthday of Scottish poet Robbie Burns. The pipes were played by parent Jim McGuiness
NO money is available for safety work at a dangerous junction, councillors have been told. Two fatal accidents took place at the Dalton-on-Tees crossroads, on the A167, near Darlington, in the late 1990s. A third person was killed at the junction in November
MORE CCTV cameras have been bought to help the fight crime and anti-social behaviour. Four fixed cameras have been installed on Seaside Lane, Easingtion Colliery, and ten other mobile cameras have been bought to use in troublespots elsewhere in the district
A COUNTRYSIDE ranger will lead a 4.5-mile walk along the beach and cliffs at Blackhall Rocks on Monday, February 19, starting at 10am, at Blackhall Rocks car park. The walk will cost £2.50.
A DISPUTE over an old barn which is being converted into a house without planning permission is expected to be resolved next week. Despite objections from neighbours and parish councillors, planning officers at Hambleton District Council are recommending
A DISPLAY of work by young offenders has gone on show at a library. The work, by inmates at Northallerton Young Offenders' Institution, is being displayed at Darlington's Crown Street Library as part of North Yorkshire County Council's Connect Programme
WORK starts today on a £12.5m project which will cut congestion in a town. The construction of the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor has been hailed as the most important highways project the town has seen in more than 20 years. The 1.8-mile road
WORK has begun on a £12.5m project to cut congestion in a North-East town. The construction of the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor (DETC) has been hailed as the most important highways project the area has seen in more than 20 years. The 1.8-mile
OFFICIALS are planning to get tough with lorry drivers who illegally use a narrow village rat-run and cause misery for local people. The road through Ainderby Quernhow, near Thirsk, provides a shortcut between the A1 and the A61 trunk routes but is effectively
A LORRY driver who accessed numerous indecent child pictures on his home computer may be facing a prison sentence. The warning was given to Tony Price after a Durham Crown Court jury returned guilty verdicts on three charges that he made indecent pseudo-images
INNOVATIVE glass art featuring some of a city's ancient inhabitants will adorn one of its newest attractions. Etchings and engravings, based on prehistoric plant life, will cover glass walls within Durham's swimming pool and leisure centre. Work began
THREE cars were involved in an accident in Barnard Castle town centre yesterday. Ambulance crews were called to the scene after the accident, which happened shortly after noon, in Galgate. A Land-Rover Discovery collided into the back of a Rover 214,
A DUTCH barn containing a large quantity of straw and farm equipment has been destroyed by fire. The blaze, at Murton Grange Farm, in Hawnby, North Yorkshire, broke out at 6pm on Thursday. Fire crews from Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Thirsk and Easingwold
ONLINE retailer Amazon yesterday said appetite for pirates and wizards helped it achieve its best Christmas in the UK. The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest DVD was Amazon's number one selling product in the fourth quarter to December 31, while
WORK starts today on a £12.5m project which will cut congestion in a town centre. The construction of the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor has been hailed as the most important highways project the town has seen in more than 20 years. The 1.8-mile
AN 84-year-old woman who crashed her car and rolled it on to its roof escaped with only minor injuries. The accident happened on a road at Hutton Magna, near Barnard Castle, yesterday. Shortly after 9.20am, the woman, who is from Little Hutton, near Hutton
A MAN found with fake Rolex watches in his car must forfeit the vehicle, a court has ordered. Seven bogus designer timepieces were found when police stopped Jamie Parker in a Mercedes car, on August 2005. Officers also recovered a list of names, plus
A LAW firm based in North Yorkshire has acquired a practice in Middlesbrough. David J Cole and Company Solicitors, of Northallerton, has taken on Lauristons Solicitors in a deal that will increase the volume of work the firm handles by 50 per cent. The
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched a groundbreaking school television project yesterday, which, he heard, could produce a new generation of celebrity chefs or Oscar-winning film directors. Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, which is in his Sedgefield
WORK has begun on a £12.5m project to cut congestion in a North-East town. The construction of the Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor (DETC) has been hailed as the most important highways project the town has seen in more than 20 years. The 1.8-mile
A BANNED driver who put three passengers and other road users at risk was beginning a jail sentence last night. David Andrew Stewart, 23, drove erratically in an attempt to flee a police patrol car, after the officers witnessed him performing hand-brake
Richard Dawson, the former England and Yorkshire off spinner writes exclusively for The Northern Echo. I COULD feel the weight lift from my shoulders so how Freddie and co. must have felt I can only imagine. It's hard to know why it has taken so long
A PROJECT has been developed in the region to help small and medium-sized businesses achieve their ambitions for growth. Business support company NStar has created its Finance and Business programme to tackle an issue that could help accelerate the
DRUNKEN Daniel Dowson was the first customer at a new police station in Middlesbrough when he caused £6,000 damage by wrecking the site with a builder's mobile platform. The 20-year-old was caught on CCTV on the site in Surrey Street, as he climbed
THE first indoor rock music festival at a cricket club has been targeted by fraudsters selling unofficial copies of tickets. Members of Annfield Plain Cricket Club, near Stanley, have unearthed the scam for their Rockfest, which will take place next Saturday
TWO men who were caught by undercover police selling heroin for £5 in a town centre were jailed yesterday. Police, who were targeting heroin dealers in central Middlesbrough, sent out teams posing as drug addicts to make purchases, said Richard Clews
A £1M contact centre opens on Monday. The old reception area at Hartlepool's Civic Centre has been completely revamped for the project, with the aim of creating a single point of contact for people seeking information about council services. The centre
A SERIES of meditation classes ideal for beginners is being held. There will be a session on Monday, February 12, at the Friends Meeting House, 131 Cambridge Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, and another on Wednesday, February 14, at Saltburn Community
ROADWORKS will be set up at the following streets in Darlington in the next few weeks. MARINA ROAD: Restrictions will be in place for a footpath improvement scheme from numbers 55 to 99 Marina Road for the next four weeks. COATHAM MUNDEVILLE: A new traffic
Blood Brothers star Linda Nolan talks about her year-long recovery from cancer surgery. THIS time last year popular performer Linda Nolan was forced to drop out of several tour dates as Blood Brothers central character Mrs Johnstone while undergoing breast
WITH rugby union's 6 Nations Championship getting under way this weekend, Chief Sports Writer Scott Wilson profiles the six sides who are looking to begin with a bang. ENGLAND This year's Six Nations might mark a new dawn for English rugby, but coach
HISTORY, we hope, will look back on yesterday as a key date in the battle against global warming. The United Nations-backed report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that it is no longer a question of whether human activity is responsible
MORE than a year after he cheated death, a man has returned to a hospital to meet the staff who helped save him. This time, Stuart Allison's visit to the critical care unit at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, was to open an extension
'NUMBED by the fearful cold and drenched by the terrible seas, they succumbed one by one, and dropping dead on the deck, they were washed overboard," Moo Kin of Canton told an inquiry in Middlesbrough 100 years ago. He was the steward on Steamship Clavering
ROYAL ROSA (3.30) is on a recovery mission at Wetherby, having let his supporters down with a dreadful effort on a fruitless trip to Haydock in December, writes COLIN WOODS (JANUS). Provided he's on song, Howard Johnson's eight-year-old is perfectly capable
AN asylum-seeker who was refused permission to stay in the UK nearly killed a North-East student only two months after arriving in the country illegally. Yashar Gharib, 26, stabbed promising sportsman and academic Jack Hancock through the heart in an
ROOTING round for horses with potential to improve is one method of trying to make a profit on a Saturday afternoon and Rambling Minster (3.50) fits neatly into that category for Sandown's Agfa Diamond Chase. "He hasn't got a lot of experience (over fences
FEW people know Jonny Wilkinson better than Toby Flood, and the 21-year-old last night insisted that his fellow Newcastle Falcons fly-half is ready to handle everything that Scotland will throw at him this afternoon. Despite playing less than 50 minutes
A FISH salesman swindled thousands of pounds from pensioners across the region to pay off massive gambling debts. When he was finally arrested, Paul Dawson threatened to sue police for not catching him sooner and saving some of his victims. Yesterday
FINGERPRINT entry specialist UK Biometrics Ltd is expanding its reach, with plans to open 29 franchised offices nationwide over the next 18 months. The Newcastle firm has recently opened offices in Manchester and Liverpool, and plans to launch further
SCORES of jobs in the North-East have been saved after the childrenswear chain Adams was bought out of administration. Nine stores in the region will remain open following a deal with retail entrepreneur John Shannon, former chairman of footwear firm
HOSPITAL staff joined campaigners and politicians yesterday to protest against cuts in services at Bishop Auckland General Hospital. Workers, who demonstrated during their lunch breaks, were backed by North-East Liberal Democrat MEP Fiona
WORK has begun on a new £12.5m link road in Darlington. The Darlington Eastern Transport Corridor (DETC), hailed as the town's biggest highways project in more than 20 years, aims to ease traffic congestion in Haughton Road, McMullen Road and Yarm Road
POLICE have issued an warning to people in Darlington after a bogus caller tried to trick his way into an elderly woman's home. The incident happened in the North Road area of town on Wednesday. A man talked his way into the woman's house, but made his
STEVE McClaren has always claimed that he wanted to bring some spice back to England training sessions, and yesterday's selection of Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has certainly done that. Barton is public enemy number one as far as the majority
BRAD Jones could be forgiven for still suffering nightmares about the last time he was in goal when Middlesbrough faced Arsenal. Just over a year ago the 24-year-old was forced to pick the ball out of his net a humiliating seven times in a defeat that
GEORGE Boateng has weighed into the Massimo Maccarone affair by criticising the striker's attitude during his time on Teesside. Maccarone made worldwide headlines yesterday after releasing a faxed statement that criticised both Middlesbrough Football
James Murray talks about ITV1's new Saturday night series Primeval as being very new, very ambitious and with a script he couldn't put down. But the truth about why he wanted to play monster-hunter Stephen Hart was more basic. "It's not often in England
Government vets were last night investigating an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm after hundreds of turkeys died. Experts were called to the farm near Lowestoft, Suffolk, on Thursday. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said preliminary
BEVIN BOYS IN reply to the letter on Bevin Boys (HAS, Jan 30), may I say that I agree with all it says except that some miners were called up because they were members of the Territorial Army. What is missing in the letters on this subject is an appreciation
SCHOOL governors at a village primary school have reported a county councillor for allegedly trying to alter minutes of a meeting which voted to disqualify him for non-attendance.The chairman and clerk of governors at Burnhope Primary School, Burnhope
THE family of a missing great-grandmother are urging people to help police find her. Beatrice Johnson, 82, was last spoken to at her home in Gosforth, Newcastle, at 9.15pm on Monday. Police have made extensive inquiries locally and in the Birmingham area
More than 5,000 people visited the North-East's newest art gallery in its opening weekend. A week after the doors opened on the region's latest multi-million pound attraction, Graeme Hetherington dropped in to check on its early success.IF early indications
A HEARTBROKEN father has appealed to a hit-and-run driver who killed his son a year ago this week.As the first anniversary of his son's death approaches, Malcolm Clark is urging the driver to give himself up to police.Twenty-year-old Robert Clark suffered
LUCKY charm Andy Monkhouse admits going back to his old club this afternoon holds no fear for either player or club.Monkhouse started the season at Swindon Town before moving to Hartlepool United last month.And in 21 League Two games this season, the
VISITORS to Washington Wetland Centre wore their wellies with pride yesterday. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) encouraged the environmentally-conscious to wear waterproofs to mark World Wetlands Day.It is the tenth annual wetlands day, and staff
Glenn Roeder believes Newcastle United are now better equipped for the future than they were at this stage last year.Roeder took charge at St James' Park, in a caretaker capacity, 12 months ago yesterday following Greame Souness' dismissal. In his short
FORMER pupils and teachers flocked to give their memories of an old school that is facing demolition.Easington Colliery County Junior School has been standing derelict since it closed in 1998, but it could be razed to make way for a residential development
THEY may have looked as if they had forgotten what was on their feet - but bedroom slippers were the order of the day at a Thirsk hairdressers.Staff at Watkins-Wright went to work in their slippers to support the Samaritans' first national Stress-Down
A SCHOOL beat its local rival to win an inter-school football competition.The Richmond and Catterick Primary Schools Indoor Football Tournament was won by boys from Richmond Methodist School.The team beat Ravensworth and Le Cateau primaries, before facing
A SCHOOL took part in a challenge day yesterday to help youngsters learn about citizenship.Pupils from Belmont School Community Arts College were involved in the project, called Working for the Community. The idea is to help children develop a wider understanding
YOUTH club members are being forgiven for acting grumpy and dopey this week as they are in character for the group's annual pantomime.The Fishburn Panto Project is presenting its version of Snow White and Seven Dwarfs to raise money for charity.About
A TEENAGE musician will be hitting a high note when he spends a week on work experience with an Army band.Hurworth School student Jonathan Snowden has been selected for a placement with the Life Guards Band.Jonathan, 15, will spend his time working on
IRIS Lindley has danced her way through life, often tripping the light fantastic five nights a week - and believes that's why she has reached her 100th birthday.Her father taught her to waltz when she was four and visiting ballrooms became her favourite
A GRAVEROBBER'S cache has been discovered with keepsakes stolen from the resting places of loved ones.Security has now been stepped up at the Middlesbrough cemetery, and staff are trying to reunite family members with the items.On Thursday, a council
A COUPLE who met at a party held a special celebration of their own yesterday.Eric and Myrtle Sharp, of Wheatbottom, in Crook, marked their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends.The couple, who have lived in the area all their lives, met as
LIVES are being put at risk by motorists who are ignoring crossing patrol wardens.Road safety officers in Teesside have resorted to using security cameras at crossing sites after reports of drivers deliberately driving around the wardens - more commonly
TOWN CRIERWITH the latest edition of Darlington Borough Council's magazine, Town Crier, being pushed through our doors, we can not help but wonder if the £36,000 it costs the council tax payer every month could be better spent.We think it would be a better
A NEW exhibition featuring photographs by a young photographer has opened at an art gallery in Darlington.Work by 22-year-old CJ Clarke has gone on show at Darlington Arts Centre's Decisive Moments Gallery.His photographs focus on the town of Basildon
After making changes on a scale usually seen only in pre-season, Darlington manager Dave Penney admits overhauling his squad was a painful but necessary process.He was more active than most in the January sales, explaining that his phone bill trebled
NEWCASTLE United's latest loan acquisition, Oguchi Onyewu, had heard all about the club's much-maligned defence prior to his arrival on Tyneside. But he believes his presence will herald a change in the current country-wide perception of the Magpies'
GARETH Southgate last night hailed Jonathan Woodgate and Stewart Downing's inclusion in the England squad as proof that the country's leading footballers can achieve their international ambitions at Middlesbrough. Former Boro boss Steve McClaren yesterday
MULTI-MILLION pound road safety work on a stretch of road named "death mile" by locals will start this spring after a 20-year campaign. A bridge will be built over the A66 dual carriageway at Long-newton, between Stockton and Darlington, to improve the
MORE than 230 factory workers at a Hartlepool factory, whose jobs have been threatened twice before, were last night made redundant after the business plunged into administration. Frozen dessert maker Bonne Bouche ceased trading yesterday after hitting
HOUSEBUILDER Bellway is forecasting record full-year results after seeing growth in all aspects of its business. The Newcastle company recorded increases in legal and sales completions, reservations, and a significant rise in its order book in the six
James Murray talks about ITV1's new Saturday night series Primeval as being very new, very ambitious and with a script he couldn't put down. But the truth about why he wanted to play monster-hunter Stephen Hart was more basic. "It's not often in England
The congregation of St Andew's in Aysgarth has made a block booking for services at the nearby Falls Motel for the duration of church renovations. IT'S NOT what's usually meant by bar service. St Andrew's church in Aysgarth is being re-ordered; the congregation
Cate Blanchett talks to Steve Pratt about one of the most difficult - and embarrassing - roles she's had to play in her career - that of a teacher who has an affair with one of her under-age pupils. Actors often tell you that filming screen sex scenes
Roy Keane last night highlighted two strikers with a point to prove when Sunderland face Coventry City at the Stadium of Light today. And the Sunderland boss is banking on Stern John coming out on top against Kevin Kyle as the hitmen face their former
A POLICE force needs to raise its share of council tax by up to a third to avoid cutting hundreds of jobs, the Home Office has been told.Durham Police is planning to shed 100 officer posts in the next financial year to avoid sliding £3m into debt.Chief
CHILDREN as young as 12 armed themselves with knives, baseball bats, hammers and pipe wrenches for a mass brawl that could have ended in tragedy, police said last night.Officers who broke up the potential blood-bath between up to 100 youths said it was
