Jun
2005
Articles from 21st Jun 2005
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£16,000 - The price of Luke's life
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The killer of a North schoolboy was last night fined just £16,000 - and spared jail - after leaving him to die following a boating tragedy. Read
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Football rumpus
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A football tournament aimed at bringing refugee groups together was abandoned yesterday after a fight broke out. Read
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Wedding tragedy
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A bride saw her brother stabbed to death by her new husband's nephew at her wedding party, a court was told yesterday. Read
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Double blow
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott yesterday served up a double financial blow to the North-East. Read
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Waste dump erosion poses `no immediate risk'
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
An eroding coastal landfill site does not pose an immediate risk, say experts. Read
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MP takes up fight for justice
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Jarrow MP Stephen Hepburn last night said he would be talking to Foreign Minister Jack Straw about the case as soon as possible, and paid tribute to Luke. Read
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New role for David
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Northumbria Police assistant chief constable David Warcup is the force's new deputy chief constable. Read
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Two knife attacks
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A man is in a serious condition and another was badly injured after two separate knife attacks in Sunderland. Read
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Queen has a bad cold
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The Queen was last night nursing a bad cold which forced her to cancel three engagements. Read
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Blair to try again with Euro-MPs
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Others' qualms based on caricature of us, PM says Read
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Organs case prof banned
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A pathologist who secretly ordered the removal of organs from hundreds of dead children's bodies at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital was yesterday banned from practising as a medic in the UK. Read
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Jokers met their match in Sharon
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Pranksters who drenched Tom Cruise with water at his film premiere have also targeted Sharon Osbourne. Read
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Transport policy sends cash south
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Prescott admits priorities leave North in slow lane Read
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Poll call over traffic charges
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Business leaders in Newcastle yesterday demanded that the council should not introduce congestion charges without holding a referendum. Read
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Flawed cash formula will not be dropped yet
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A flawed funding system which has left the North-East out of pocket by more than £100m in the past decade is unlikely to be reviewed for another three years, it emerged last night. Read
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Pupils play part at launch of new river clean-up boats
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Two vessels which will keep the Tyne shipshape were launched yesterday. Read
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Estate plan is rejected
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Plans for a housing estate on the edge of Morpeth have been rejected for the third time. Read
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Red card for soccer festival after battles
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A football tournament held to bring together groups of refugees was abandoned after a fight broke out on - and off - the pitch yesterday. Read
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New asylum laws `creating' illegal immigrants
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Refugee worker Monica Bishop last night condemned new asylum laws as creating an underclass of illegal immigrants. Read
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Wind turbines find favour in some parts of the country
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
I've a lot of sympathy for your article on wind farms (Thursday) - it's such a pity that a renewable energy source which could play a significant part in combating global warming is so surrounded by the muddy waters of profit and controversy. Read
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Today's Voice of the North
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Emmerdale star Liz Estensen enjoys a blast from the past in this week's A Moment In Time. The actress, who plays Woolpack landlady Diane Sugden, revisits the beach at South Gare near Redcar with photographer/presenter Neil Atkinson. Read
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Died after stopping fight
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A man who died minutes after breaking up a fight in a County Durham street was named yesterday as Silas Hickman, 60, of Chester Street, Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland. Read
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Inquest on inmate found hanged
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A prisoner found hanged in her cell shortly after being transferred to Durham Prison had been on 24-hour suicide watch for more than a year, an inquest was told yesterday. Read
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Erica takes over helm at Northern
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A rising star in the theatre world has been appointed to take over from Alan Lyddiard as chief executive of Northern Stage. Read
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Trafalgar Geordies are given a voice
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The part played by Geordie seamen in wining the Battle of Trafalgar has been revealed by a North-East historian. Read
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Giving doorstep cowboys the bullet
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A register of property repairers will be launched in County Durham tomorrow to help combat doorstep crime. Read
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Medals of Falklands veteran on sale
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The medals of a Falklands and Gulf war veteran who died at his Wearside home at the age of 43 are to be auctioned this week. Read
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Country going mad on rules
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Oh I tell you, this country is going mad. In Havering, Essex, dozens of beautiful fruit trees are to be hacked down, at a cost of £150,000, because health and safety says we may slip on their windfall fruit. Read
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No point in ban on women
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Leigh Anne Hester, 23, is the first US servicewoman since the end of the Second World War to receive the Silver star, the second highest US military award. Read
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Sympathy for school hours idea
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
I was once a single working mother desperately worried about what would happen to her son before and after school, so I've a lot of sympathy with Ruth Kelly's desire to open schools almost round the clock. Read
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Important call for addicts
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A teenager is to undergo psychiatric treatment after becoming addicted to her mobile phone. Read
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Round-the-world motorbike stolen
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A charity round-the-world motorbike challenge is in crisis after one of the specially-equipped bikes was stolen just days before the team were due to set off. Read
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Network threat to local rail services
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Train operators in the North were accused last night of making a bid to duck out of running less profitable local services to isolated communities. Read
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Auction for barn
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A derelict barn in Northumberland is expected to make £85,000 when it is auctioned later this week. Read
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Economic benefits of high-speed inter-city links questioned
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
High-speed rail links between London and the North may not deliver the promised economic benefits to the region, rail companies are warning. Read
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Real nappy companies
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Home laundered nappies could save parents around £500 on the cost of keeping a baby in nappies. Read
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Events
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Northumberland Read
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Myths
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
"They are just terries" Read
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Waste of time or real deal?
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
A report from the Environment Agency claiming real nappies are as harmful to the environment as disposables has heated up debate between the pro-real and pro-disposable nappy camps. Read
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Police act on vandal raids
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Police in Chester-le-Street have declared war on vandals who have been terrorising householders. Read
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Fishing exhibits cast the net wide
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The fishing heritage of the North-East will be explored in a new exhibition which opens this week. Read
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Recruits to Trafalgar
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Officers from Northumbria Police's marine unit are helping celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Read
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Duchess plans massive play park
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
The Duchess of Northumberland has revealed plans to build Europe's biggest children's play park at the Alnwick Garden. Read
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Unsung North-East men of Trafalgar
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Tony Henderson on Trafalgar's unsung local heroes. Read
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Just why the demons didn't get Wilder
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Gene Wilder talks to Hannah Stephenson about life, love, exorcising his demons and why he believes the film scripts of today are junk. Read
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Max redresses the balance on Admiral Collingwood
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero by Max Adams (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20) Read
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Author to read from his own novel
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
Northumberland author Neil Astley is reading from his new novel, The Sheep Who Changed the World, at The Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle, at 7pm on Thursday. Read
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Disposing of the nappy myth
Jun 21 2005 | News Archive
What would possess a mother of triplets to use real nappies instead of disposables for her bundles of joy? Hannah Davies found out, and also reports on Real Nappy Week running until June 26. Read
