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Chef Kenny Atkinson leaves role at Rockliffe Hall hotel resort

ONE of Britain’s leading gourmet chefs is leaving his job with a flagship North East leisure resort.Read

Rockliffe Hall in TripAdvisor's top ten hotels

A FIVE-star golf, spa and leisure resort is the second most luxurious hotel in the UK according to its harshest critics. Read

Durham Tees Valley Airport future under threat

FEARS over the future of Durham Tees Valley Airport last night grew after it was announced the majority shareholder was putting its stake up for sale.Read

Southern Cross care homes transferred to new owner

DOZENS of care homes from the failed company Southern Cross were transferred to new owners in the North East this weekend.Read

Princess Royal visits Durham to see Butler Trust’s youth work

PRINCESS Anne heard at first hand how potential young offenders’ lives had been changed, during a visit to Durham yesterday.Read

Rockliffe Hall golf resort 'is not up for sale'

THE owners of the region's newest five-star golfing resort and hotel have hit out at rumours it is up for sale.Read

County Durham couple pay tribute to murdered Danuta Domagalska

THE operators of the farm where a Polish mother was strangled by her brother have paid tribute to their “smiling and cheerful” milkmaid.Read

Danuta Domagalska killed in money row - police

POLICE believe Polish milkmaid Danuta Domagalska was strangled following a row with her brother over money.Read

Body discovered in County Durham shallow grave

POLICE searching for a missing mother-of-one have found a woman's body concealed in a shallow grave.Read

Police fear missing Darlington farmhand is dead

THE police officer leading the search for missing farmworker Danuta Domagalska admitted yesterday he did not expect to find her alive.Read

Man's body found in hunt for farm worker Danuta Domagalska

POLICE probing the disappearance of a Polish farmhand and her brother yesterday discovered the body of a man in a field near to the County Durham farm where they both worked.Read

Search for missing Darlington farmhand goes on

POLICE searching for a missing farmhand whose brother disappeared after she vanished have been searching ponds and slurry pits on the dairy where they worked.Read

MP raises concerns over Northumbrian Water deal

QUESTIONS were raised last night about the impact on North East jobs, services and the community after Northumbrian Water agreed to a £2.4bn takeover bid from Hong Kong.Read

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Councils braced for Southern Cross home closures

THE North East would be the hardest hit region in the UK if troubled care provider Southern Cross goes under.Read

A Southern Cross care home

Southern Cross announces cuts

THE UK's largest care home operator, Southern Cross Healthcare, has just announced 3,000 job cuts.Read

Ministers face grilling over Southern Cross from MPs

A UNION report yesterday laid blame for the slide of beleaguered care group Southern Cross at the hands of "scandalous financial engineering".Read

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Southern Cross prepares homes sell-off

DAVID Cameron has been urged to appoint a cabinet minister to deal with the uncertainty surrounding North East care provider Southern Cross.Read

Life-saving Darlington sailor Jessica Brown returns home to massive phone bill

A ROYAL Navy sailor from County Durham returned home from saving the lives of civilians in Libya to threats of action from bailiffs over an unpaid mobile bill after a mistake by her phone company.Read

Falcons stars show support for Great North Air Ambulance

ARMED with charity wristbands, some of the region's top rugby players have given their full backing to Air Ambulance week.Read

Chef Kenny Atkinson battles on in TV contest

EVERY day this week, TV viewers can watch celebrated chef Kenny Atkinson representing the North East against fierce competition.Read

Durham Tees Valley airport bosses win Bmibaby legal fight

AIRPORT bosses in the North East have won a multi-million pound legal battle with an airline that withdrew its fleet of planes from the region.Read

Tying the knot in style thanks to The Journal

LOVEBIRDS Ben Mitchell and Amy Watson tied the knot this weekend – thanks to The Journal. The couple, who have been engaged for three years, won a £7,500 luxury wedding by cutting out coupons in the newspaper. Read

Michelin-starred chef Kenny Atkinson joins Rockcliffe Hall staff

ONE of Britain's most sought-after gourmet chefs has spoken out about why he rejected a number of high profile job offers to work in a new North East hotel.Read

Mourners pay tribute to Ashleigh Hall

MOURNERS packed a church yesterday for the moving funeral of a 17-year-old girl allegedly killed by a man she met on a social networking site.Read

Doctors ‘tutted’ at mum’s help plea for son William Cressey

A TOP doctor said sorry to the distraught mum of a 10-year-old who died from meningitis after he was sent home from hospital.Read

Cheryl Cressey relives how her son, 10, died

EMOTIONS ran high as a devoted mum relived her 10-year-old son’s death after doctors failed to diagnose he had meningitis.Read

Newton Aycliffe worker crushed in machine

A WORKER died after becoming trapped in machinery at a steel products factory which supplies car parts to Porsche and BMW.Read

Durham Tees Valley Airport loses £12m battle over bmibaby deal

DURHAM Tees Valley Airport has suffered a crushing defeat in its High Court bid for £12m damages from a budget airline.Read

Penney drops for Quakers as boss quits

THE uncertainty surrounding the future of Darlington increased yesterday after the club’s administrators admitted a deadline for investors to declare their interest in taking over the ailing club could be extended again – on the same day manager Dave Penney quit to take over at Oldham.Read

Wind turbine report is submitted to council

A TINY village with just 70 residents could find itself surrounded by seven huge wind turbines.Read

Four sheep butchered and their unborn lambs killed

FARMERS and consumers across the region were urged to be on their guard last night after four sheep were butchered and the bodies of their unborn lambs strewn across a field.Read

Durham opencast site set to get green light

A NEW opencast pit could be built 10 years after campaigners won their battle to block a mine near their homes.Read

Nissan supplier to axe 160 more jobs

PRODUCTION cutbacks at Nissan could see 160 jobs at one of its North East suppliers axed, with hundreds more jobs also under threat at companies in the Washington car firm’s supply chain.Read

Last chapter in life of 50s child killer Straffen

A BRIEF hearing attended by a handful of people in a County Durham courtroom marked the final chapter of one of Britain’s most notorious murders.Read

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