Oct
2006
Articles from 5th Oct 2006
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Oil giant BP hits output trouble
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Troubles at oil giant BP deepened after output in the last three months fell even lower than a year ago when production was devastated by hurricanes. Read
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Stock watch
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The FTSE 100 closed up 29.4 point on Wednesday at 5966.5. On the upside, sugar producer Tate & Lyle jumped 44p to 767.5p after a broker upgrade. Read
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Support floods in for water firm
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The FTSE 100 Index traded within a narrow range to close 29.4 points higher at 5,966.5, on the back of another positive session on Wall Street. Read
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£1m dream comes true
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The 17th 'Geordie Proms' will see £1m raised for cancer charities. David Whetstone talks to Rosalynde Walker about the concert that marks her swansong. Read
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Shakespeare, but not as you might have known it
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Cymbeline at Northern Stage until Saturday Read
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A bunch of japes from the Vine
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Tim Vine at The Journal Tyne Theatre Read
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Hot ticket
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Jim Davidson - Adults Only, Tomorrow night, Newcastle City Hall, (0191) 261-2606 Read
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Write on Sheree
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The 200-year-old Lit & Phil has never had a writer in residence. Now they've got poet Sheree Mack who tells Tamzin Lewis about floggings, slavery and today's National Poetry Day. Read
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Jools' piano brings high note to Quayside bar
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Jools Holland's touring piano has spent the past five years accompanying some of the world's biggest names in music - as well as being played by the maestro himself, of course. Read
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Free Sunday parking ends
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Free Sunday parking is to be scrapped in a Northumberland market town despite claims by local businesses that the move will deter tourists and hit trade. Read
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Pub brings early festive cheer to villagers
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Pub bosses have served up some Christmas cheer for a Northumberland village's annual festive lights display. Read
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Abandoned vehicle deal
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
An amnesty on abandoned and unwanted vehicles has been announced in Sedgefield in the run-up to Christmas. Read
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A fairytale ending for Princess Rosie
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Dressed as a princess, little Rosie Wright is the star of her own fairytale. Read
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Election slammed
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The process used to elect the governing body for the proposed County Durham and Darlington foundation trust has been slammed by a councillor. Read
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Commuters see train horror
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A coroner yesterday expressed his "deepest sympathy" to commuters who witnessed a woman die when she was hit by a freight train as they waited at a station platform. Read
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Coffee shop chain lands in hot water
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
An international coffee shop chain has landed in hot water after opening a new cafe in a Northumberland town - without securing the required permission. Read
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Riverside walkers get ready to step out
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Hundreds of walking enthusiasts are descending on Morpeth this weekend for an annual festival showcasing the beautiful countryside surrounding the market town. Read
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Bike ban trial hailed success
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
An experimental ban on motorbike scramblers using a Northumberland bridleway is to be made permanent after proving a success in tackling damage to the rural route. Read
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Arrest over horse fair gang rapes
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A teenager is facing extradition from Ireland to England over the rape of three girls at a Cumbria horse fair last year. Read
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Homes acid alert
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Police ordered families to stay in their homes after a drum of acid was spilled in the garden of a boarded up house. Read
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Man's body found in popular city beauty spot
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A man's body was found under a bridge in a Newcastle beauty spot yesterday. Read
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Have a say on transport
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A public meeting is being held next week as part of a campaign to improve rural public transport. Read
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Truants' mother escapes prison
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A mother who admitted letting her children play truant more than 300 times in six months was spared jail yesterday. Read
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Dancers are put through hoops in costume drama
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Basketball fans will get more than an eyeful if a top team's dance troupe is unable to find some costumes. Read
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Two hold the standard high
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The Journal Read
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Baby death social worker loses 'tribunal
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A social worker who claimed she was bullied into leaving her job after the murder of baby Aaron O'Neil has lost a tribunal case against her former employers. Read
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Pussports, please
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A cat lover emigrating to the Med has forked out £6,278 to take her 19 cats with her. Read
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`Tainted drugs' man dies
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
An 18-year-old North-East man who took contaminated illegal drugs has died in hospital. Read
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North tragedy runner named
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Organisers of the Great North Run yesterday named the 29-year-old man who died in the event. Read
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Baby death case doctor can carry on working
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A doctor charged with not organising an emergency caesarean quickly enough for a woman whose baby later died has been told she can carry on working. Read
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Back lane made safer
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A road safety scheme aimed at cutting the risks to children in an Ashington street has been approved by Northumberland county councillors. Read
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New hope in waste battle
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A campaign against a new landfill site in a North-East village moved a step forward yesterday when Euro-MPs decided that the protesting families' case warranted further investigation. Read
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Oops... Is Tyneside really a city?
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Appointing a shadow minister for Tyneside was meant to tell the North-East once and for all that the Tories really cared about the region. Read
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Euro MP warns over green agenda
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
David Cameron's green agenda will not ensure Tory success in the North-East - Euro MP Martin Callanan yesterday warned. Read
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Priority call on dualling
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Plans to dual the A1 north of Newcastle should be seen as a national priority if rural parts of Northumberland are not to suffer in the future, it was warned yesterday. Read
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Pledging support for family values
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
David Cameron attempted to silence critics on the right of his party yesterday by pledging his full support for the traditional Conservative values of marriage and the family. Read
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Juliet finds true love at first flight
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
It was love at first flight for a pair of North-East lovebirds. Michael Young and Juliet Lever will marry next month less than a year after they first met on a flight from Belfast to Newcastle. Read
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Opening of £1m cycle route bridge
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A £1m bridge carrying the country's most popular long distance cycle route has opened in County Durham. Read
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Barrymore signs in
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Television personality Michael Barrymore will be signing copies of his autobiography in Gateshead later this month. Read
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2011 for both Tyne tunnels to operate
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Drivers will have to show nine months' more patience when the new Tyne Tunnel opens around the middle of 2010. Read
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Car crash pensioner spared prison term
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A pensioner who caused a head-on collision when she drove the wrong way up one of the region's busiest roads yesterday escaped jail. Read
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Brave girl's bid to save her dying mother
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A schoolgirl yesterday volunteered to act as a bone marrow donor - to save her dying mother. Read
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No stop to nuclear insists Iran's leader
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Western sanctions will not stop Iran from enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned yesterday. Read
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New planets move a little bit closer
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Five new planets have been discovered that hug their parent stars more closely than any yet known. Read
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Drug-death hearing
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The family of a student whose body featured in a graphic anti-drugs campaign yesterday welcomed a High Court ruling ordering a new inquest into her death. Read
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Murder accused
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A man appeared at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday charged with murdering a second-hand car dealer. Read
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It's our baby now, say these proud midwives
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Midwives moved yesterday to allay fears after they took over their maternity unit from consultants. Read
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How the horrific full story emerged
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The six-year-old's mother told the jury how it was more than a week later when the full extent of her daughter's ordeal emerged. Read
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Man was alerted by sound of crying
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
In a statement read to the court, the man who found the girl told how he first became aware of the incident when he heard the sound of a child crying. Read
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`What are you doing here?' then silence
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
The mother of a six-year-old girl raped by a stranger after being snatched from her bath and driven away told a court yesterday of her frantic search for her missing daughter. Read
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Shepherd stance on no sale of shares hardens
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Newcastle United chairman Freddie Shepherd has reportedly said he has no intention of selling his stake in the club in the immediate future, despite the continued attentions of would-be buyers the Belgravia Group. Read
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Half the trouble
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A curfew banning young people from congregating late at night on a housing estate has been hailed a success. Read
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Squashed tomatoes
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Tomato ketchup has been banned from dinner tables at hundreds of schools across the North-East under strict new measures to make children eat healthily. Read
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Sportsman dies in front of wife
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A devoted father and dedicated sportsman collapsed and died yesterday while training at the gym - as his helpless wife watched. Read
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One, two, tree push
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Two tree surgeons briefly branched out into medicine when they helped a mother give birth in a park. Peter Carlyon said he and his colleague Ed Campbell-White lent a helping hand when Carmel Ohrwall went into labour in Richmond Park, south London. Read
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Pay gulf growing
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
the pay gap between men and women in finance jobs has grown over the past year by more than £2,000 to £11,600, new research showed. A survey showed average earnings for men was £51,000 compared with £39,400 for women. Read
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Madonna
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Madonna arrived in Malawi yesterday on a mission to help Aids orphans in the poor southern African nation and - according to government officials - to adopt a child herself. Andrina Mchiela, a top official in the Ministry for Gender and Child Welfare, said the pop star planned to launch six projects to help underprivileged children during her stay. She also said Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, were seeking to adopt a Malawian child. Madonna was expected to file the adoption papers today. Read
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Two accused of rapes
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Two soldiers from the same Army regiment as Prince Harry were charged yesterday with raping a 17-year-old girl in a London park. The two men from the Blues and Royals each face three rape charges. Read
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Virus kills at least 71
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
At least 71 people have died over the past month from a mosquito-borne virus and 40,000 more may be infected in India's southern state of Kerala. The state is facing an outbreak of chikungunya, a viral fever transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Read
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Baby-sitter's bungle
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A us baby-sitter bungled her first day on the job by picking up the wrong five-year-old boy from his school in Long Beach, California. The boy was taken by mistake when the woman arrived without knowing what the child she was to care for looked like. Read
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Wedding nightmare
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A pre-wedding shopping trip in Utah for a 21-year-old bride ended with felony charges against her parents, who she claims kidnapped her and drove her to Colorado, trying to talk her out of the nuptials along the way and holding her until she missed the ceremony. Read
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Stab case charge
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A health care assistant was charged last night in connection with the stabbing of a 17-year-old girl attacked as she took a short cut to work. Peter Anscombe, 28, of Cray, Kent, has been charged with the attempted murder of Carley Furness in Orpington. Read
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Britons abducted
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
Four British oil workers have been abducted in Nigeria. The workers were kidnapped from a residential compound close to Ekit, in Akwa Ibom State. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are in touch with the families concerned, the company and the Nigerian government." Read
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Row led to gran's death
Oct 05 2006 | Today's News
A late-night row between a teenager and his mother caused his grandmother's death, an inquest was told yesterday. Read
