Articles...
May 5 2007
If you want an excuse to get out of doors this bank holiday weekend, you could try Mapping the Necklace....
May 5 2007
An exciting new festival celebrating outdoor adventure in the dramatic North Lakes of Cumbria will boast a selection of weird and wonderful events....
May 5 2007
Set in picturesque countryside, this attractive detached cottage in Mohope, Hexham, offers modern accommodation....
May 5 2007
A teenager was last night charged with murder after the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in a crime-ridden area of Tyneside....
May 5 2007
A weekend of activities centred around coal and colliery railways is to be held at a historic site....
May 5 2007
Baltic director Peter Doroshenko gives The Journal his "My Place"....
May 5 2007
Wares from the Baltic's fantastic shop are available online for the first time....
May 5 2007
A horse trader who plotted to create a massive drugs production plant at his farm was jailed yesterday....
May 5 2007
The number of North-East people being killed by asbestos has risen dramatically....
May 5 2007
A cyclist is fighting for his life after falling under the wheels of a car on one of the most notorious roads in the region....
May 5 2007
Sewage treatment works are being targeted by thieves who have so far stolen more than £100,000 worth of equipment....
May 5 2007
A spectacular competition for urban athletes was launched last night in Newcastle and is set to wow the crowds again today....
May 5 2007
It should, of course, have been a glorious anniversary, a last hurrah for Labour's most successful Prime Minister ever, to be followed by a graceful bowing out after 10 ground-breaking years....
May 5 2007
A "green" development incorporating a range of impressive energy-saving features was last night named winner of The Journal/Evening Gazette 21st Century Living Awards....
May 5 2007
Visitors to one of the North's most attractive cities can now explore it in style, thanks to pedal power....
May 5 2007
When Judith Shaw and her school friends parted ways in 1957 they promised to keep in touch, but little did they know it would take 50 years before the group was reunited....
May 5 2007
Almost 1,000 jobs could be created in a former pit town by a £60m project aimed at revitalising its shopping centre, it was claimed last night....
May 5 2007
Warnings that 2007 could go down as the worst year for Britain's "debt crises" have been prompted by news that the year started with a record number of people going bust....
May 5 2007
Two men have been charged with the murders of two robbery victims....
May 5 2007
Blessed with three babies, pygmy hedgehogs Mr and Mrs Pricklesworth were a little taken aback when one of them was born an albino - a 10,000 to one chance....
May 5 2007
Workplaces are being urged to decide on alternative uses for their smoking rooms as the smoke-free deadline approaches....
May 5 2007
Have just come back from Australia, which as we all know is a long way away, so far away that there are no Greggs bakery shops, so that's a long long long way....
May 5 2007
A stunning stained glass window has become the jewel in the crown of a restored Northumberland church....
May 5 2007
Four major North firms have signed up to sponsor a charity sports spectacular pitting the Duke of Northumberland against Lord Durham....
May 5 2007
The first of the four events in the Prince's Trust Challenge Trophy will be a celebrity golf tournament at Slaley Hall in Northumberland on July 5....
May 5 2007
A ship of mercy set sail from the North-East yesterday bound for war-torn West Africa. ...
May 5 2007
Wildlife will benefit from flood protection schemes in the North-East....
May 5 2007
A tiny Asian deer which has firmly established itself in the south of England has now reached the River Wear....
May 5 2007
Muntjac are joining the grey squirrel and mink as the most successful foreign animals to colonise the UK....
May 5 2007
Last month was the warmest April on record at Durham since 1850....
May 5 2007
Bosses at two flagship North-East venues have added their voices to concerns that the future of arts in the North-East is being put at risk by the 2012 Olympics....
May 5 2007
Work begins next week on a £1m household waste recycling centre in Northumberland....
May 5 2007
A teenage traveller was cleared yesterday of raping two schoolgirls at a country fair....
May 5 2007
You would expect a fair bit of sibling rivalry at Bellingham Young Farmers Club....
May 5 2007
The pressure of the rat race has proved too much for a Northumberland cat - who has been diagnosed with stress and depression....
May 5 2007
A 10-YEAR-old boy has died in hospital after being rescued from a pond....
May 5 2007
The desperate parents of a little girl who went missing from her Portuguese holiday apartment while they dined nearby were last night praying for good news....
May 5 2007
The parents of missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann checked on her every half an hour while they were having a meal in a nearby restaurant....
May 5 2007
A teenager was killed after his car ploughed into a tree before turning upside down in a field as he returned home from celebrating his 18th birthday....
May 5 2007
The days of disco are long gone at a Northumberland school....
May 5 2007
All over the world children are being mistreated and their human rights taken away from them by their governments. But it wouldn't happen here in the United Kingdom, would it?...
May 5 2007
How utterly appalling that a housing association is going to evict an old lady for privately medicating herself with cannabis....
May 5 2007
Irefer to comments made by Alan Duncan, Shadow Minister for the North-East, about his doubts that the proposed regeneration plans now passed for Whitley Bay would not be wholly successful (The Journal, April 30)....
May 5 2007
A pair of fraudsters were spared jail yesterday after stealing more than £7,000 from their employers in a work-place scam....
May 5 2007
Fresh stock of an eagerly anticipated anti-wrinkle "wonder"' cream sold out in a buying frenzy in the North-East yesterday....
May 5 2007
A pair of fraudsters were spared jail yesterday after stealing more than £7,000 from their employers in a work-place scam....
May 5 2007
Companies across the North-East are being asked to take part in a week-long trial to "smarter working" this month - as a campaign to end the nine-to-five culture gathers pace....
May 5 2007
A website set up as part of an appeal on behalf of a young girl with a brain tumour is developing an online support forum for people who are in a similar situation....
May 5 2007
A soldier killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan was from the North-East, it was revealed last night....
May 5 2007
Cannabis worth more than £1.5m has been seized is raids on countryside homes in County Durham....
May 5 2007
A website set up as part of an appeal on behalf of a young girl with a brain tumour is developing an online support forum for people who are in a similar situation....
May 5 2007
They may have escaped a beating in the North-East, but across Britain it was a different story....
May 5 2007
An "evil and inhuman" sex offender was jailed for life yesterday for the rape and murder of a Polish student....
May 5 2007
Four council leaders were toppled yesterday as a series of shock results for senior local politicians in the North-East unfolded....
May 5 2007
An "evil and inhuman" sex offender was jailed for life yesterday for the rape and murder of a Polish student....
May 5 2007

As Tony Blair celebrates 10 years in Downing Street - and prepares for an announcement on his departure - The Journal's Flashback looks at a decade which saw a North-East MP leading the country....
May 5 2007
Four council leaders were toppled yesterday as a series of shock results for senior local politicians in the North-East unfolded....
May 5 2007
Teachers, parents and neighbours of a primary school have joined forces with conservationists to fight plans to install a mobile phone mast next to a school crossing patrol....
May 5 2007
Companies across the North-East are being asked to take part in a week-long trial to "smarter working" this month - as a campaign to end the nine-to-five culture gathers pace....
May 5 2007
A soldier killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan was from the North-East, it was revealed last night....
May 5 2007
They may have escaped a beating in the North-East, but across Britain it was a different story....
May 5 2007
Let's work to make a difference - In a society where just about everyone claims to be working harder, isn't it about time we started to give a lot more thought to working "smarter"?...
May 5 2007
Let's work to make a difference - In a society where just about everyone claims to be working harder, isn't it about time we started to give a lot more thought to working "smarter"?...
May 5 2007
Cannabis worth more than £1.5m has been seized is raids on countryside homes in County Durham....
May 5 2007
Teachers, parents and neighbours of a primary school have joined forces with conservationists to fight plans to install a mobile phone mast next to a school crossing patrol....
May 5 2007
Fresh stock of an eagerly anticipated anti-wrinkle "wonder"' cream sold out in a buying frenzy in the North-East yesterday....
May 5 2007

As Tony Blair celebrates 10 years in Downing Street - and prepares for an announcement on his departure - The Journal's Flashback looks at a decade which saw a North-East MP leading the country....