Aug
2006
Articles from 17th Aug 2006
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Glam rock icons the story of Slade
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Parodied by Vic Reeves, covered by Oasis and forever known for screeching "It's CHRISSSTMASSSS ..." Slade have been a part of British cultural history for 30 years. With a new book out on them, Hannah Davies finds out about the boys from the Black Country. Read
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Hot ticket
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Last Night's Fun Read
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Matisse with cutting edge
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Some of Matisse's most iconic images are showing in Newcastle, as Tamzin Lewis discovers. Read
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How Noel became positively happy
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Noel Edmonds has reordered the TV schedule, now he wants to reorder your life, as Emma Pomfret explains. Read
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Why cycle?
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
* Cycling causes less wear and tear on joints and muscles than any other form of exercise, making it suitable for older adults and people with joint and mobility problems. Read
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Sue on marketing and children
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
"i think the most shocking revelations of my study was the realisation of what was going on in marketing towards children, and the extent which marketeers are going to so they can reach them. Read
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'Current education is damaging'
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
"Toxic Childhood looks like good, common sense and it is great to see some research backing up the views I really believe in." Read
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Top 10 tips for detoxing childhood
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
1 Eat as a family as often as possible - and switch off the TV. Read
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Time to get back on our bikes
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Cycling is enjoying an extraordinary renaissance in Britain. Read
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Talking about their generation
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Are our children's childhoods becoming "toxic"? One education expert believes so. Hannah Davies finds out more. Read
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Hero ship returns
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
County Durham's adopted warship HMS Bulwark has returned home to Britain after relief work in war-torn Lebanon. Read
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Quiet victory as railway reopens
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
There was little fanfare when a tourist railway reopened after 20 months yesterday, but passengers were still keen to take their seats on board the first train. Read
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Crime fight on the road
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
An anti-crime initiative is going on tour in North Northumberland in the coming months. Read
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Athlete's artistic talents
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A North athlete tipped for the 2012 Olympics has been brushing up on her skills - to become a professional artist. Read
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Armed duo terrorise shop staff
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Robbers armed with a claw hammer terrorised staff at a North store before stealing £900. Read
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Three submit bids for £23m hospital
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Plans for a mental health hospital in Durham have moved a step closer after the three shortlisted companies submitted their bids to build the £23m facility. Read
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Concerns over walls
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
New concerns have been raised about the deteriorating condition of stretches of the river bank walls at Berwick. Read
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German shell is found in stable
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A blast from the past has been uncovered at a Northumberland holiday park, after maintenance workers found a First World War artillery shell in an old stable block. Read
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Police seek driver who caused m-way crash
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Police accident investigators are searching for a Range Rover driver who caused a high-speed motorway crash in County Durham. Read
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Airport bird strikes claim
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A lake created by a North-East businessman in the grounds of his luxury home will increase the risk of bird strikes on aircraft using Newcastle Airport, an expert claimed yesterday. Read
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Plea to firms on A-levels
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
North-East businesses have been told not to rubbish A-level results - by their own leaders. Read
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Willy Poole column
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
I touched last week on French weakness over whisky. This week I want to mention their failings over port. Read
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Byker Grove 'to go out with a bang'
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Past and present cast and crew of well-loved children's drama Byker Grove gathered for the filming of its last ever scene yesterday. Read
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Girl search called off
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A police search for a young girl who was found in a distressed state near Cramlington's Bay Horse Inn at 6.45pm on Tuesday has been called off after her father came forward to explain the situation. Read
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Any ideas on how to spend £50,000?
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
People in a Northumberland town are being asked for their views on how to spend £50,000 which has been earmarked by council chiefs for community projects. Read
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'This is the end of what I can do legally'
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Environmental campaigner Bryan Atkinson has hit the end of the road in his one-man battle to stop the second Tyne Tunnel. Read
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The British nightmares
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Being chased and teeth falling out are the most common bad dreams suffered by sleeping Britons, with Southampton residents the most likely to have nightmares, according to a new survey. Read
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MP's dog kills polecat at show
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
An mp apologised after his Jack Russell dog killed a polecat in front of visitors at a county show. Read
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Chance to punch staff on the menu
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Feeling stressed? A new bar has opened in eastern China that offers customers the chance to punch the staff for £4.50 in a bid to rid themselves of their anger. Read
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Two-headed record attempt
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Aquarium officials in the US hope an exhibit that opens next week and runs until September 5 will earn a Guinness World Record for the most two-headed animals on display. Read
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Battler who wore down the ministry
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A Journal article in 1990 led one North veteran to campaign on behalf of soldiers shot for cowardice during the First World War. As he finally tastes success more than 15 years on, Shot at Dawn campaigner John Hipkin talks to Graeme Whitfield. Read
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Speed cameras outnumber cars
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Speed cameras outnumber police traffic patrol cars by up to seven to one in some parts of the country, it has been revealed. Read
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Death patient's family call for urgent changes
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
The family of a woman who died because of a system failure at a North-East hospital last night called for urgent changes to "prevent a similar tragedy happening again". Read
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Golf helps kids charity
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Former Auf Wiedersehen Pet star Tim Healy holds his 15th Celebrity Golf Classic at Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club on Sunday, September 24 when more than 30 teams are expected in the event which again supports the region's leading child health charity, The Children's Foundation, which last year benefited by £10,000. Read
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Diagnosis is too late
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A man had to wait 22 weeks for a hospital test which revealed he had just six months to live, it emerged yesterday. Read
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Claustrophobia blamed for air alert
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
An air passenger suffering from claustrophobia triggered a major security alert on a London-to-America flight yesterday. Read
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EU agrees `liquid bomb' research
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
European ministers yesterday agreed to spend £237,000 on urgent research into the detection of liquid explosives. Read
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Passenger smashes his way on to plane
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Thomas Cook Airlines yesterday called for the prosecution of a man who smashed his way on to a plane at Gatwick Airport to retrieve a lost wallet. Read
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Geordie phrases are still on the council agenda, er, pet
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Pet, hinny and love are still on the agenda for employees of a North-East council, after bosses last night insisted the traditional phrases had not been banned. Read
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Man arrested after gas alert
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A man was arrested last night after 100 people were evacuated from their homes in the North-East when a gas pipe was damaged. Read
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No hitches on horizon
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Travellers due to fly from Newcastle Airport can expect a smooth journey, after airport bosses confirmed there would be no flight cancellations today(Thurs). Read
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Regeneration plans on agenda
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Controversial regeneration plans which locals say have "blighted" their homes will come under the spotlight again at what is sure to be a stormy public meeting tonight. Read
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Protesting solicitor gave a briefing
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A solicitor could face action after dropping his trousers in a court corridor in protest against new security measures. Read
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Top trainer attacked
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Detectives investigating an assault on one of Britain's leading racehorse trainers are anxious to talk to his son. Read
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Alert as artist dies of anthrax
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A North artist has died after becoming infected with anthrax in the UK's first fatal case of the disease for 32 years. Read
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Grenade blast kills four
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A grenade blast in a Hare Krishna temple during a major Hindu religious festival killed four people in India's north east yesterday. Another 40 people were injured, mostly in a stampede which followed the blast in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state. Read
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`Peak times' for strokes
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
The risk of having a stroke peaks during a two-hour period in the morning and again at night, according to new research. Experts found that the risk of having any type of stroke peaked between 6am and 8am, and 6pm and 8pm. The findings are published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Read
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Boy dies in fire
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A five-year-old boy has died in a house fire in Norfolk. Fire crews were called to the blaze at an address in Thetford yesterday morning. A police investigation is under way and the area has been sealed off. Read
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1,000 feared dead
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Police are preparing for the death toll in southern Ethiopia's floods to rise to 1,000. Rivers in Ethiopia burst their banks after 11 days of heavy rains. The scale of the disaster is overwhelming impoverished Ethiopia's rescue efforts. Read
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Pigeons are rescued
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Five racing pigeons had to be rescued from a remote Scottish island after being blown off course. The tagged birds, which conservationists say could be from France, became stranded on St Kilda off the Western Isles. Concerns over their ability to survive on the remote outpost led to a rescue mission by the National Trust. Read
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Mayor accused
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Peterborough's first Asian mayor is among three men charged in connection with vote rigging allegations, police said. Ex-city councillor and former mayor Mohammed Choudhary, 47, from Peterborough, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud and forgery in relation to the June 2004 elections in Peterborough. Read
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Road puzzle
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Confused Welsh cyclists have been getting nonsensical advice about bladder problems from a mistranslated road sign. A small yellow temporary sign at a busy roundabout between Penarth and Cardiff, South Wales, says "Cyclists dismount". But the Welsh translation underneath reads "Bladder inflammation/irritation overthrow" ("Llid y bledren dymchwelyd"). The baffling and grammatically incorrect howler probably came about as an error with an online translator. Someone might have entered cystitis instead of cyclist. Read
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Charges ruled out
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A son who took his mother to a Swiss suicide clinic will not face any charges, police said. Valere Sliwinski, 58, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, died in a clinic in Zurich run by a euthanasia group. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis and cancer and was in constant pain. She was driven to the clinic by her son Stefan Sliwinski, 34. Read
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Prescott film plan
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Beleaguered Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is set for further humiliation after it emerged ITV is making a drama about his fall from grace. A script has been commissioned for the TV movie, titled Prezza, and the project is due to go into production over the next few months. It is being put together by the same team behind the satire of David Blunkett's liaisons, A Very Social Secretary. An ITV source said the film about Mr Prescott would offer a "frank" look at his affair with secretary Tracey Temple. Read
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Lighthouse with Dalek
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
The owners of a lighthouse turned B&B looking to sell up and move abroad are offering a Rolls Royce and an original life-size Dalek in with the asking price. Frank Sheahan and his wife Danielle have decided it is time to move on after 16 years of running the West Usk Lighthouse in Newport. Read
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Claim levelled at worker
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A social worker who claims she was bullied into leaving her job following the murder of baby Aaron O'Neil was yesterday accused of resigning to get more money from her wealthy husband during their divorce. Read
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Killed by Anthrax
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
Health experts in the North were last night seeking 20 people who have been in contact with a man who died after being infected with anthrax. Read
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Shock as firms plan job cuts
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
More than a third of North-East businesses are planning to cut jobs in the next three months, a shock survey claims. Read
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Divorce claim in baby case
Aug 17 2006 | Today's News
A social worker who claims she was bullied into leaving her job following the murder of a baby was yesterday accused of resigning to get more money from her husband during their divorce. Read
