Mar
2006
Articles from 8th Mar 2006
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Shaun quick-steps into dancing role
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
He's currently laid up with laryngitis, but Shaun Williamson is promising to be strutting with the best of them before Saturday Night Fever's Tyneside stay is over. Sam Wonfor caught up with him before the croakiness struck. Read
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You'll be inspired to strut your stuff
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Saturday Night Fever at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, until March 18 Read
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Chefs taste success
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Chefs from Newcastle United's corporate hospitality suite have narrowly missed out on the top honour in a national culinary competition - with Chelsea taking first prize. Read
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Tourist trains are going to run late
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Hopes that a tourist railway could be back on track by Easter have been dashed by red tape. Read
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Court battle couple helped
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A family who need to raise £15,000 to bring doctors they accuse of allowing their son to die to court say they have been "overwhelmed" by the support they have received. Read
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Stage is set for young farmers panto
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A joint team from Stamfordham and Ponteland won the battle of the panto dames at this year's Northumberland Young Farmers' Club entertainment competition. Read
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Pollution threatens water jobs
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Almost 100 jobs will be lost if a leading drinks company's vital underground water supply is polluted by waste tipping, planners were warned yesterday. Read
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Bomb hoaxer jailed for year
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A bomb hoaxer who left a fake device in a telephone box has been jailed. Read
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Mrs Brown back again
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Laughs and some colourful language are on the menu once again at The Journal Tyne Theatre, with the second part of Brendan O'Carroll's Mrs Brown trilogy booked for a week-long run from June 4. Read
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Cabinet approves homes demolition
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
But residents vow to carry on their fight against plans Read
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Winning technique discovered by Dutch scientist
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
It was 18th-Century Dutch scientist Daniel Bernoulli who first pinpointed the reason why objects like a football bend in the air when kicked in a certain way. Read
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Youngsters learn how to bend it like Beckham
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Young football fans got a physics lesson with a difference as the Newcastle Science Festival was kick-started by a familiar face yesterday. Read
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North East life underwater
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Fascinating glimpses of underwater life in the depths of the North Sea have been captured and displayed in a new book. Read
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Schools revamp hit by setback
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A £26m plan to improve schools in the North suffered a huge setback yesterday when officers said it should be put off for 12 months. Read
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MPs lobbied on equal pay
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
The Government was accused of sending out "mixed messages" over its family-friendly policies after failing to narrow the gender pay gap in its own departments. Read
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Site visit on opencasting
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
County councillors agreed yesterday to hold a site visit and public meeting before deciding on revised plans by the Banks Group for a major opencast mining scheme near Cramlington, Northumberland. Read
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Come clean, objectors told
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Bypass protestors shun pre-inquiry meeting Read
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Why the country is having to help itself
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
There are just two things wrong with the Government's Rural Strategy. Read
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Bomb team is called in
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A bomb disposal team was called to a police station yesterday [Tues] after a member of the public handed in a package. Read
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Parking chiefs to pay out more refunds
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Under fire parking chiefs at a North council yesterday announced they will pay out more refunds to motorists after their tickets were found to have technical flaws. Read
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Frantic search for help
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Lee Phipps is believed to have been stabbed near where he was found, and is thought to have desperately sought help. Read
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'Nothing will be swept under carpet'
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Police in pledge after shocking murder Read
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Bride's shock
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A young bride became a wife and a widow in the space of 24 hours after the sudden death of her husband. Read
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Baby talk
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has spoken about her pregnancy for the first time and revealed she wants to call her baby Leonardo if it is a boy. Read
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Cancer kills Reeve's brave widow
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44. Read
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Wife denies murder
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A greedy prostitute married and then murdered one of her elderly clients after discovering he was not as wealthy as she had hoped, a court heard yesterday. Read
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IVF expert's patient tells of her 'agony'
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Professor faces General Medical Council Read
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Junkin dies at 76
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Comedy veteran John Junkin has died at the age of 76, it was announced yesterday. Read
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Counting millions
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Countdown star Richard Whiteley left almost £4m in his will to be split between his family, an ex-partner and his old school, it emerged yesterday. Read
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999 or 101, is it an emergency or not?
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
People living in the Northumbria Police force area will test a controversial new 101 non-emergency telephone number. Read
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Woman flees fire
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A woman was forced to flee her home yesterday after a fire began in her kitchen. Read
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Plastic not so fantastic on street
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Along Newcastle's busy Northumberland Street yesterday, shoppers were largely in the dark about the interest rates charged by stores. Read
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Put cap on interest rates, demands MP
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Stores should be banned from charging excessive interest rates on their charge cards after competition chiefs ruled 'wealth warnings' were needed on statements to protect customers from running up too much debt, an MP has urged. Read
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Debbie breaks new ground
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Farmer's daughter Debbie Watson is preparing to plough a lonely furrow - the only girl in a national skills competition. Read
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Cross purposes
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A church has been told it needs planning permission to erect a wooden cross in its grounds because it constitutes an advert. Dudley Wood Methodist Church, in Dudley Wood, West Midlands, was told by Dudley Council planning laws classify crosses as adverts. Read
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Mum's fatal car row
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A mother of five died after causing a car crash by grabbing the wheel from her husband during a row, police said yesterday. Annie Grantham, 47, suffered fatal injuries when the car she was travelling in went out of control and rolled into a ditch near her home in Cambridgeshire in October. She lost her temper and grabbed the wheel while arguing. Read
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Bellamy arrested
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
FormerNewcastle United player Craig Bellamy has been arrested by police in connection with an alleged nightclub assault on a teenage girl, it emerged yesterday. The Blackburn and Wales striker was arrested and released on police bail after being questioned about an incident last month at the Number 10 nightclub on Mill Lane, Cardiff. A 19-year-old girl claims she was assaulted. Read
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Bombings kill 15
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A series of co-ordinated bombings rocked a packed railway station and crowded temple yesterday in Hinduism's holiest city, Varanasi, India, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens in an attack that raised fears of communal violence. Indian cities were put on high alert. Read
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Doherty on drugs charges
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Singer Pete Doherty has been charged with seven counts of drugs possession. The 26-year-old former boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss is due to appear in court today for a review of a 12-month community order. The Babyshambles singer, from Bethnal Green, East London, will appear at Thames Magistrates Court tomorrow, charged with possessing heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis. Read
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Boat trips deaths
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
More than 1,000 Africans have died over the past four months while trying to sail in small boats from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands, a Mauritanian aid official said. Ahmed Ould Haya, head of Mauritania's branch of the International Committee of the Red Crescent, said 40% of the boats that leave Mauritania for the Canary Islands in a bid by people to escape poverty sink or capsize along the way. Read
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Star singer quits smoking
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Voice of an Angel Charlotte Church has quit smoking and admitted that the 25-a-day habit affected her voice. Charlotte, 20, has revealed that she gave up the habit on New Year's Day. The opera singer-turned-pop star urged others to do the same to mark No Smoking Day today, saying smoking "looks disgusting". The Welsh singer said: "I decided to make it my New Year's resolution." Read
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Mafia hitman dies
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Richard Kuklinski, a notorious Mafia hitman known as "The Iceman" who claimed to have killed more than 100 people, has died, aged 70 He died in a New Jersey hospital and had been serving life prison sentences. Read
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Website boys aid police
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an internet prank ended up helping US police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, Californian authorities said. The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on a social networking website - to cheer up a friend. Read
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It's a victory on the buses
Mar 08 2006 | News Archive
Pensioners in Durham will be able to use free bus passes all over the county after council chiefs agreed to allow the scheme to cross local authority borders. Read
