Sep
2007
Articles from 25th Sep 2007
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All life there in the Great North Wall
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Girl, 15, killed crossing road
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Village is going to town
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
SUPPORT continued to roll in for Northern Rock last as a coffee shop owner told how her entire community had rallied around the bank. Read
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Hostile reception awaits 999 chiefs
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
AMBULANCE chiefs could face a hostile reception at a public meeting to discuss the service’s new community paramedic system. Read
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Residents get a say in future
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Morpeth’s out of Africa
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
FARMER Phillip Gregory has made wildlife his business. Phillip, 45, runs Earsdon Hill Farm, between Morpeth and Felton in Northumberland, with father John, 76. Read
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Breathing new life into ‘bleak’ area
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Celebrity hotshots find life’s a blast
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Flexi-time working backed by council
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
THE routine nine to five working day has been replaced with flexible working conditions at Durham County Council. Read
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Artwork at Baltic is seized by police
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Have A1 plans hit end of the road?
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
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. Read
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Probe after workmen find body
Sep 25 2007 | Today's News
THREE people were being held by police last night after a man was found dead by workmen in North Shields. Read
