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Michael Brown

Food scare risk to North East shooting industry

ENVIRONMENTALISTS plotted a campaign which could clip the wings of the North East’s multi-million-pound shooting industry.Read

Cramlington parents call for action on motorbike menaces

PARENTS of a five-year-old boy knocked off his pedal bike by a hit-and-run motorcyclist are calling for a crackdown on motorised menaces.Read

OLT Express launch flights from Newcastle Airport to Poland

NORTH East businesses will have a direct link to one of Eastern Europe’s financial capitals with the launch of new flights from Newcastle.Read

South Shields veterans’ club in lotto grant boost

EX-SERVICEMEN are looking forward to a safe and warm future for their local club after a grant from the BIG Lottery Fund.Read

Court told of tragedy at Sunderland pub over game of pool

A VIOLENT thug has been jailed for four years after a man died following in a drunken argument over a game of pool.Read

North East property experts dispute house price statistics

ESTATE agents in the North East have been surprised by official figures which show the region having the largest rise in house prices in the last month.Read

Hazelrigg florist set to dazzle Chelsea Flower Show

A TALENTED young florist is hoping to dazzle the Chelsea Flower Show judges with a Diamond Jubilee-inspired sparkling chandelier.Read

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Newcastle Airport bosses' tourist hopes for new easyJet plane

BUSINESS leaders have welcomed the arrival of a £20m plane that could see thousands of extra tourists flocking to the North East each year.Read

North East councils hit back at six-figure salary claims

CLAIMS that 100 North East council workers were pocketing six-figure salaries began to unravel last night.Read

Light pollution is worsening across Tyneside

STARGAZERS say the level of light pollution across Tyneside is getting worse despite hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on new street lighting.Read

Judges hot on Rothbury butcher's new burgers

A BUTCHER from Northumberland has struck gold with an experimental beefburger that has made it to the final of a national competition. Read

Car giant Nissan celebrates record Europe sales

NISSAN is celebrating record European sales ... with the Sunderland-made Qashqai being singled out as a cornerstone of the company’s success. Read

Seaton Delaval residents’ bid to save Victoria and Albert pub

CAMPAIGNERS trying to save a community pub say they face a race against time to have their historic hostelry listed before a planning appeal.Read

'Tourism tax' bad for the North East

AIRPORT bosses say they will continue to fight against "damaging" air taxes that could now add nearly £370 to the cost of a family holiday.Read

Lottery cash to boost North East village revival scheme

VILLAGES in Northumberland and County Durham are among those benefiting from a lottery fund supporting the start-up of rural businesses.Read

Two Morpeth teenagers to carry the Olympic torch

TWO teenagers are celebrating after being told they have been selected to carry the Olympic torch.Read

Cramlington footballer fights to save voice from disease

A FOOTBALLER with a debilitating degenerative disease is planning to keep his voice despite eventually losing the ability to speak.Read

Software firm Sage thanked by Marussia Racing F1 team

THE glamour of Formula One came to a Tyneside office block yesterday to mark a firm’s role with one of the sport’s newest teams.Read

Experts to debate homes problem in Newcastle

A “JILTED generation” can’t get on the property ladder because they’re either too successful to live in a council house or too poor to buy a home. Read

Gateshead and Middlesbrough miss out on city status

BUSINESS leaders have backed two North East towns to bounce back after they were beaten to the coveted prize of city status.Read

Author Profile

Michael is a senior reporter who joined the Evening Chronicle, Journal and Sunday Sun in May 2011. A Teesside native, the general multimedia reporter puts his molecular biology degree to use covering environment stories and looking after the Go Green pages. He also worked on the Chronicle's campaign to keep the Freeman Hospital's children's heart unit open.

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