STUDENTS in a former pit town famed for its sporting heroes are getting a head start in their efforts to become the next generation of star performers.Read
FINANCES have improved at a North East college where teachers voted for strike action last year in protest at cost-cutting measures, according to a new report.Read
A TELECOMS giant's bid to site a mobile phone mast half a mile from one of the region's top historic treasures has been given the green light by a Government planning inspector.Read
A GREEN power company is to invite bids for the contract to build a 13-turbine wind farm in a North East landscape which has been dominated by giant industrial chimneys for decades.Read
A TELECOMS giant has sparked anger by deciding to put up a mobile phone mast outside a popular primary school - despite only getting planning approval because of a council blunder.Read
PARENTS of a North East victim of the Lockerbie bombing say the long-running campaign for a public inquiry into the atrocity will continue, although optimism is fading that it will ever happen.Read
JOBSEEKERS in Northumberland who can’t take up employment opportunities because of transport problems are being offered help by a pioneering project that literally puts them on the road to success.Read
THE Duke of Northumberland has stoked up the fierce debate over wind energy development in the North East by launching a withering attack on the impact of massive turbines on the region’s unspoiled countryside.Read
A NEW taxi licensing policy for Northumberland has been agreed in principle, in an effort to avoid a repeat of a recent controversy which sparked a High Court case.Read
A PET dog was found hanged to death after it had jumped out of a back garden enclosure in which it had been tethered by its owner, a court was told yesterday.Read
