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Today's News for 25 September 2007

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All life there in the Great North Wall

Sep 25 2007

A BIO-WALL demonstrating the diversity of life is to be one of the major features of the new Great North Museum. The new attraction, due to open in 2009 on the site of a transformed Hancock Museum in Newcastle, has been awarded £200,000 from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation. ...

Girl, 15, killed crossing road

Sep 25 2007

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to a teenage girl who died after being struck by a car as she walked back to her Northumberland home across a main road in darkness....

Breathing new life into ‘bleak’ area

Sep 25 2007

A NEW civic heart is planned as part of the ongoing regeneration of a town. The proposal is to flatten the 1960s concrete St John’s Square in Seaham in County Durham....

Artwork at Baltic is seized by police

Sep 25 2007

POLICE have seized a piece of art that was due to go on show at the North-East’s biggest gallery, it emerged last night. Officers were called in to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art by bosses at the venue after they expressed concerns over exhibiting the work....

Residents get a say in future

Sep 25 2007

PEOPLE in a Northumberland market town will play a key role in the development of a major new blueprint aimed at improving its economy, social life and environment....

Hostile reception awaits 999 chiefs

Sep 25 2007

AMBULANCE chiefs could face a hostile reception at a public meeting to discuss the service’s new community paramedic system....

Village is going to town

Sep 25 2007

SUPPORT continued to roll in for Northern Rock last as a coffee shop owner told how her entire community had rallied around the bank....

Probe after workmen find body

Sep 25 2007

THREE people were being held by police last night after a man was found dead by workmen in North Shields....

Have A1 plans hit end of the road?

Sep 25 2007

TRANSPORT Secretary Ruth Kelly yesterday refused to support upgrades to the A1 in the North-East, despite Gordon Brown putting investment in transport at the heart of Britain’s economic future....

Celebrity hotshots find life’s a blast

Sep 25 2007

ACTOR Tim Healy and former boxing world champion Glenn McCrory got trigger happy in a muddy Northumberland field yesterday to offer celebrity support for a major new North-East charity initiative....

Flexi-time working backed by council

Sep 25 2007

THE routine nine to five working day has been replaced with flexible working conditions at Durham County Council....

Morpeth’s out of Africa

Sep 25 2007

FARMER Phillip Gregory has made wildlife his business. Phillip, 45, runs Earsdon Hill Farm, between Morpeth and Felton in Northumberland, with father John, 76....

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