Apr
2007
Articles from 19th Apr 2007
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Traditional food for all the family
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Brocksbushes Farm, renowned throughout the region for its pick-your-own fruit, is holding its first ever country market tomorrow. Read
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Sporting complex for future stars
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn yesterday opened a new £600,000 sports complex on Wearside where Black Cats' stars of the future will be discovered. Read
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Restriction on Dr Joe to continue
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Restrictions imposed on a controversial Northumberland family doctor who was found guilty of serious professional misconduct five years ago were extended yesterday for another 12 months. Read
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Beating the burglars
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A mobile police station is taking to the streets of North Tyneside over the next few weeks. Read
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Seaside planning battle continues
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A couple are facing a third defeat in their battle for permission to use a former cafe and restaurant as part of their seaside home. Read
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Regeneration begins with barges
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Two massive barges have been anchored off the Northumberland coastline as work gets underway on a £10m maritime engineering project which will transform a seaside village. Read
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MPs in call to axe the Lords
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Nearly 50 MPs have signalled support for a Parliamentary shake-up that would permanently axe the House of Lords. Read
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Gold cards from shops
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Metro Gold Cards valid for travel from May 1 will be available over the counter at Nexus Travelshops from Monday. Read
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Ice stars strike gold yet again
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
They melted our hearts as they captured the ice from the Russians. As Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's Dancing on Ice tour rolls into Newcastle this weekend, Simon Gage talks to the gold medal-winning ice icons. Read
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Venerable stamps
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Wearside MP Fraser Kemp is calling on the Government to issue stamps to commemorate the area becoming a World Heritage Site in 2009. Read
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Teenager faces court over woman's death
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A teenage driver appeared in court yesterday accused of causing the death of a grandmother. Read
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Good news about jobs
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Business chiefs have welcomed continued increases in employment across the North-East. Read
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Three in court in gangland slaying case
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Three men appeared in court yesterday on charges arising from the gangland murder of father-of-seven David "Noddy" Rice. Read
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Missing teenager found in Egypt
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A teenage girl missing from her home since Good Friday has been found safe and well in Egypt, police said yesterday. Read
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Meet Booberettes and Baar bra
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
It was what lay underneath the famous Barbour jacket that was attracting attention yesterday. Read
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Teacher defends her career
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A headteacher has defended herself against allegations that she breached a string of management guidelines while running a North school. Read
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Willy Poole column
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Two weeks to go - two weeks, that is, before I return to the orthopaedic chap and, hopefully, get my left arm out of its sling, so that I can use it to open doors and things, that will [I pray to God] lead me back to what passes for normal life here and to doing all the little things the doing of which one takes for granted when blessed with the standard issue of - "hands, human, doing stuff for the purpose of: 2". Read
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Villagers lose their reminder of hell
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
The last visible reminders of a North-East town's "living hell" were torn down yesterday. Read
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Venues are voted best in Britain
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Bosses at two leading Northumberland tourist attractions are celebrating after landing top prizes at the Oscars of England's visitor industry last night. Read -
City to cut emissions
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Measures to reduce Sunderland's carbon footprint over the next five years have been unveiled. Read
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No wind farm, say councillors
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Plans to build a wind farm with 18 turbines have been opposed by a Northumberland council. Read
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Unclaimed lottery cash
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A lottery prize of £92,608 has yet to be claimed in the South Tyneside area, Camelot said yesterday. Read
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Shoppers' special wins an extension
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A trial run of a shoppers' express bus link to Newcastle and the MetroCentre from County Durham is to be extended. Read
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Ex-stripper serving life dies in prison
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A former male stripper and drummer jailed for life for a savage attack on his landlord has died suddenly in Durham's top security Frankland Jail. Read
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Tech killer sent to mental health unit
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui was held in a mental health unit after two women students complained about his behaviour, police revealed yesterday. Read
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Pension aid plan is sunk
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Opposition proposals for a `lifeboat fund' to help 125,000 people who lost their pensions when their companies went bust were sunk yesterday in the House of Commons. Read
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Joe will set the pulses racing in Aidensfield
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Scottish actor Joseph "Joe" McFadden is to be the new star of ITV1 series Heartbeat. Read
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Workers demolish gas blast property
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Demolition contractors have dismantled the wreckage of a house which was ripped apart by a massive gas explosion in Northumberland on Monday. Read
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Woman to make TV sport history
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Tv history will be made this weekend when a 32-year-old becomes the first female commentator on Match of the Day. Read
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Deadly day for hundreds in Baghdad
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Four bombs exploded in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 178 people and wounding scores on the deadliest day since the start of a US-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital two months ago. Read
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Who owns iron stove?
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Two youngsters were caught stealing a 6ft cast iron stove as they carried it through Percy Main in North Shields. Read
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'We want to catch the heritage tide'
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A Tyneside council is considering bidding to have its shoreline designated a heritage coast. North Tyneside Council sees earning the status as a key part of its tourism strategy. Read -
Alder Hey QC to probe N-plant organ removals
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
An inquiry is to be held into the removal of body organs from nuclear workers who died at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria - apparently without the consent of their families. Read
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Attack at Metro stop
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Police are hunting a youth who attacked a teenager at a Metro station. Read
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Blood case 'same as US syphilis scandal'
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
North-East widow Carol Grayson gave evidence yesterday at the first full hearing of an independent public inquiry into contaminated NHS blood. Read
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Trust's pics are warning
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
One of the North-East's top photographers has contributed to a project to highlight the impact of climate change which will be unveiled in the region this weekend. Read
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No coastguard rescue
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
The coastguard rescue team at the centre of a row over compensation is to stop responding to emergency calls. The volunteers from Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, west Wales, are to withdraw cover because of a dispute with the Maritime and Coastguard agency and say about a dozen other teams are joining them. They claim that a colleague who lost his job after being injured during a rescue four years ago has not been adequately compensated. Read
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Waking up with a bang
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Waking from a nap that may have lasted thousands of years, the Nevado del Huila volcano in Colombia erupted early yesterday provoking avalanches and floodings that swept away houses and bridges and prompted the evacuation of thousands of people, authorities said. Read
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Boy killed in Pakistan
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A 10-YEAR-old British boy has been shot dead in Pakistan. Hamza Nisar, from Bradford, was on holiday with his parents in Mirpur when he was shot, It is understood the man responsible, who has been arrested, has been convicted of three previous murders but was allowed to walk free. The boy was on his way to a mosque when he was shot in the chest. Read
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`Dissenter' St George
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
St George should be rebranded as a champion of the downtrodden, with his feast day made a national "day of dissent," according to a report published today. The dragon-slaying image of the patron saint of England fails to recognise his caring deeds, religious think-tank Ekklesia says. Read
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Cowell £40m richer
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
Music mogul Simon Cowell's wealth has ballooned by an extra £40m in just one year, according to The Sunday Times Rich List. The X Factor and American Idol judge, 47, now sits on an estimated wealth of £100m - from 944th position last year to 700 this year, Read
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Robot lands on heart
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A robot "leech" has been developed that can crawl across the surface of an ailing heart, delivering treatment. Scientists have already tested a prototype of the device, called HeartLander, on live pigs. Like a medicinal leech, the inch-long robot has two sucker-like feet and will be able to inject drugs or attach medical devices, such as pacemakers. Read
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Prisoner dies in cell
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A 39-YEAR-old man who was on remand accused of burglary was pronounced dead after he was found hanging in his jail cell, Michael Taylor, of no fixed address, was discovered hanging at Bedford prison on Monday afternoon. Staff immediately attempted to resuscitate him and paramedics attended but he was pronounced dead half-an-hour later. Read
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Window sex 'link to 1984 attack'
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A man who was arrested for having sex in front of his neighbours appeared in court yesterday charged with an indecent assault from over 20 years ago. Read
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A1 dualling petition
Apr 19 2007 | Today's News
A petition has been launched on the Prime Minister's website calling for the A1 to be dualled to boost safety and the economy. Read
