Articles...
Sep 14 2007
Mortgage lender Northern Rock confirmed today that it had agreed emergency funding from the Bank of England after being rocked by the credit crunch in financial markets....
Sep 14 2007
FORMER soldier told by army doctors to take painkillers for a spinal condition which has left him in a wheelchair is spearheading a new campaign to get a fair deal for injured service personnel....
Sep 14 2007
RADICAL proposals to provide affordable rural housing were outlined yesterday in a major report now being considered by Tory leader David Cameron....
Sep 14 2007
HEALTH chiefs have launched an investigation into improper use of email by staff. Bosses at Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust began the probe last night after they were alerted to some “instances of inappropriate use” of their email system by a “neighbouring trust”....
Sep 14 2007
LUXURY liner the QE2 is to appear on Tyneside again next year, it was confirmed yesterday....
Sep 14 2007
A HIGHWAYS foreman who was sacked after allegedly moonlighting at the home of Northumberland County Council’s leader has won his claim for unfair dismissal....
Sep 14 2007
PROTESTERS have been left furious by a council’s handling of their campaign against a drinks licence being granted to a new £1m restaurant in a Northumberland commuter village....
Sep 14 2007
THE Duke of Northumberland yesterday gave his backing to a safety campaign aimed at reducing the risk of fatal and serious workplace accidents in his ancestral home town....
Sep 14 2007
A MOTHER of three accused of bigamy told police she never thought her husband would “stoop so low” as to trick her into illegally remarrying, Newcastle Crown was told yesterday....
Sep 14 2007
THE North-East could be left waiting years for desperately-needed upgrades to the A1 under a road widening moratorium proposed by a Tory review group, it was yesterday claimed....
Sep 14 2007
A VAN driver has been warned he faces a lengthy prison sentence after he admitted wiping out four members of the same family in a horrific road crash....
Sep 14 2007
SCHOOLCHILDREN in the region have moved closer to seeing their designs for the Google logo displayed on the search engine’s homepage....
Sep 14 2007
COSMOLOGISTS in the North-East have revealed the results of a groundbreaking study which has provided new insights into the way the first stars were formed at the start of the universe around 13bn years ago....
Sep 14 2007
A PROJECT to reinvent the historic centre of Newcastle is to apply for lottery funding in the coming weeks....
Sep 14 2007
A MAN whose holiday home was gutted by fire claims he is the victim of a racially-aggravated arson attack....
Sep 14 2007
FARMERS in the North-East have been left in despair by the new ban on animal movements triggered by the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey, it was claimed yesterday....
