Oct
2006
Articles from 6th Oct 2006
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Plea over warming
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Calls for a climate change law to be introduced have been backed by two-thirds of North-East MPs. Read
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Tribute service for the region's thin blue line
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A celebration of the lives of dozens of police officers and staff who have died in the North-East has been held. Read
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No mission impossible
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
For thousands of young bookworms it was mission accomplished this summer as they raced through stories at their nearest library. Read
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Academic loses his life's work on airline
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
An academic who arrived in Newcastle at the height of this summer's airport terror alerts has been told his life's work has been lost. Read
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Six ale flavours to savour
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Auld hemp (3.8% alcohol by volume, ABV): The first beer Steven Urwin brewed commercially. It's a fine, amber-coloured traditional "session" bitter with a fresh malty aroma. Fuggles hops give it a robustness and a fruity character. Read
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Brewery is pick of the crop
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Diversification: the farm buzz-word that became familiar after the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak. Read
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Celebrating the benefits of seafood
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Seafood Week is a celebration of seafood and the health and taste benefits it brings. Read
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Events in the region
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
* latimers Deli in Whitburn, Sunderland, has just this week been voted Independent Seafood Retailer of the Year at the 2006 Retail Industry Awards. The shop is offering a different kind of fish soup every day in the deli during Seafood Week. Read
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Piercings in high places, with taste
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
with countryside and beaches as stunning as they are in the North-East, I wonder why I bother holidaying abroad. Read
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Short measures
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Turbot is the grandest of fish and deserves a really special wine. Treat yourself with a superb organic champagne. Read
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Climate change fails to dampen occasion
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Picking grapes is back-breaking and sticky, and you have to take care not to cut off the fingers of the person working opposite you. Read
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Lodging a plaice at the very top
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
To mark National Seafood Week Hannah Davies speaks to head chef of the Fisherman's Lodge and North-East Chef of the year Jamie Walsh. Read
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Glamour of big screen a distant memory
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
When Jesmond Picture House first opened its doors in the 1920s it offered cinemagoers a magical taste of Hollywood's glamour. Read
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Focus on the times of their lives
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The past and present images of a former mining town have been brought together in an illuminating photography exhibition - viewed through the eyes of children. Read
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Villagers are left boiling
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
More than 800 householders have been warned to boil their tap water, after problems with a pumping station and reservoir in rural Northumberland. Read
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Top-up for city bar
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A city centre bar is set for a revamp after its owners were granted a license to extend it. Read
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Healthy project
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A £70,000 pilot project to encourage teenagers to look at a career in healthcare is launched in County Durham today. Read
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Royal honour for North's Mr WaterAid
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The man who organised The Journal's trip to Malawi this year to see the work of WaterAid has been given the charity's highest honour. Read
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We'll give those keen youngsters grey hairs
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
I'm sure we're all delighted by the new age discrimination legislation. Read
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Housing for allotments' site
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Allotment holders are being forced off their plots to make way for a £3.2m housing complex. Read
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Lord Stevens takes break from bungs
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Former Northumbria Police chief Lord Stevens admitted last night he still has a great deal of work to do on his investigation into football bungs. Read
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On-line aura over development
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A wireless cloud of information floated over an exclusive Tyneside housing scheme created by fashion designers Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway for the first time yesterday. Read
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DNA boost for crimefighters
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Groundbreaking dna kits could provide vital clues in a number of unsolved murders in the North-East, police chiefs revealed last night. Read
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Friday Forum
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The Labour Party Conference has finished and we know that we shall have to choose a new leader within a year and probably sooner than that. Read
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Schoolboy saves mum from fireball
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Nine-year-old Dominic Waite has been hailed a hero by his mother after he doused her with water when her skirt caught fire. Read
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Egg man spared a lifetime Asbo
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A bid to impose Britain's first anti-social behaviour order for wildlife offences on an obsessive North-East egg collector was rejected by magistrates last night. Read
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Chimeras have roots in Greek mythology
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The term chimera comes from the Greek word for a monster that was part lion, part goat and part serpent. Read
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Traders get personal to take on the giant
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
This time last year businesses in Hexham were bracing themselves for the arrival of supermarket giant Tesco. Exactly a year on from its opening, Hayley Beattie looks at the impact the store has had on the market town and its businesses. Read
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Farmers told to stop taking risks
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
More than 300 farmers were told how to cut agricultural accidents at a special event in the North-East yesterday. Read
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CPS explains tragedy ruling
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A teenager whose actions led to the tragic death of his grandmother was not prosecuted because there was insufficient evidence against him, it emerged yesterday. Read
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Metro leap man is still critical
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A pensioner accused of rape remains critically ill after jumping in front of a Metro train, a court was told yesterday. Read
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Projekt rap it up
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Two North schoolboys have launched their bid to become the next superstars of rap. Read
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Quarry is revived
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Plans by Natural Stone Quarries of Stirling to reopen a disused sandstone quarry at Hazeldene, near South Charlton, north of Alnwick, have been approved by county councillors. Read
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Protests at church home bid
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Plans to convert a disused country church into a family home have sparked strong protests from people whose loved ones are buried in the surrounding graveyard. Read
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Kangeroo beaten up
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Two men who dressed up as a kangaroo and a koala bear to advertise the Walkabout bar in Middlesbrough were beaten up by thugs while they handed out promotional flyers. Read
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Artist raises spirits with work on curtain
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Artist Phil Daniels has been burning the midnight oil at Newcastle's Theatre Royal - watched only by the ghosts. Read
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Winners reap their reward
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The champions of a Northumberland recycling league are planning how to spend their prize money. Read
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Why we could soon throw money away
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Council leaders will call for new powers to make householders pay for rubbish collections based on how much waste they throw out. Read
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Rabbits aid cell research
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Scientists in the North-East are applying for permission to create hybrid human and rabbit embryos. Read
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Teenager had stroke
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A teenager who died after taking drugs was not killed by a tainted batch believed to be circulating the North-East, police said yesterday. Read
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Streets of childhood
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Old friend Maxine Fell said she had known Voisey for 20 years and as part of group who hung around together as teenagers in North Tyneside, they were familiar with many short cuts and alleyways. Read
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Friend denies alibi for assault suspect
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A man accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl after snatching her from her bath told police he had been nowhere near the area when the abduction took place, a court heard. Read
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Amish bury shot girls and forgive their murderer
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Amish families gathered yesterday to bury four of the five girls gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse. Read
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Attack victim seriously ill
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A man suffered serious head injuries when he was assaulted in North Tyneside. Read
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999 calls still rising
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
It was heralded as the answer to the 999 conundrum - how to stop members of the public calling up the emergency hotline with non-emergencies. Read
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Wave of despair for surfers
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A major surfing championship due to be held off the North-East coast was called off yesterday - after forecasters predicted there would be no waves. Read -
Holiday couple fight late licence
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The North-East has seen a string of bitter battles between pub landlords and their neighbours over the new 24-hour drinking laws. Read
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Schools bomb scare
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A bomb threat shut down the Culpeper County Schools district in Virginia yesterday, cancelling classes for more than 7,000 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in religious schools. Read
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Arrested over football
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A grandmother was arrested, fingerprinted and told to give a DNA sample - after she was accused of stealing a football that had landed in her garden. Mother-of-three Angela Hickling, 56, from Heanor, Derbyshire, was arrested on suspicion of theft. A few days later, police told her they were dropping the case because of a lack of evidence. Read
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Straw sparks veils row
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw provoked an angry reaction yesterday after he revealed he asks Muslim women to remove their veils when they visit his constituency surgery. Mr Straw said he feels "uncomfortable" about talking with someone whose face he cannot see. Muslim leaders in the MP's Blackburn constituency said many Muslim women would find his comments "offensive and disturbing". But another Muslim group said they were "understandable". Read
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Online shopping soars
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
The number of Britons visiting online shopping sites has soared by two million over the last year, research out yesterday said. Some 18.6 million web-users visited an online retail site in July, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Read
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Drug `may aid mums'
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A drug used to prevent stomach ulcers could save thousands of lives by reducing bleeding in women who have just given birth, a study has shown. Researchers studied 1,620 women giving birth in rural India, a group of whom were randomly assigned the drug oral misoprostol. The findings were published in The Lancet. Read
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Tragedy baby funeral
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A baby girl mauled to death by two rottweilers was laid to rest yesterday. A horse-drawn hearse carrying five-month-old Cadey-Lee Deacon's tiny white coffin led the cortege from a family home in Leicester to a cemetery for the service. The little girl was attacked by the dogs at The Rocket public house in the city. Read
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Air traveller cautioned
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
A woman arrested after an argument broke out on board a London-bound flight has been cautioned, British police said yesterday. The row happened on US Airways Flight 1494 from North Carolina to Gatwick Airport on Wednesday. Read
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Tv viewers `misled'
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Channel 4 misled viewers by allowing evicted Big Brother contestants another chance to win the show, it was ruled yesterday. The ruling came from premium rate services regulator Icstis after an eight-week investigation. Viewers said they had been told they were voting to evict contestants permanently. Read
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UK's top snackers
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Young Britons are the most frequent snackers in Europe, a report out yesterday showed. Consumers aged up to 24 years munched their way through 37% of the UK's £6.3bn confectionery market last year, said Datamonitor. Children aged six to 13 ate an average 825 snacks per year compared to a European average of 807. Read
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Tom Bell
Oct 06 2006 | Today's News
Veteran actor Tom Bell has died aged 73, it was announced yesterday. He died in hospital yesterday after a short illness, his agent said. Bell was perhaps best known as Helen Mirren's old adversary, Detective Sergeant Bill Otley, in Prime Suspect. He played Jack "The Hat" McVitie in 1990 film The Krays. His other roles include the film Wish You Were Here. One of the last programmes he filmed was Prime Suspect 7, due to be broadcast on ITV1 next month. Tom Bell is survived by a son and two daughters. Read
