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Today's News for 26 September 2007

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Heroin suspects arrested

Sep 26 2007

DOZENS of police officers swooped on addresses in the North yesterday in a bid to smash a large-scale heroin ring....

Club’s winning line nears after 60 years

Sep 26 2007

A PROUD North-East athletics club could finally be nearing the winning line in a lengthy campaign to secure its own running track....

Council concerned over single authority process

Sep 26 2007

A NORTHUMBERLAND council has voiced its concerns over the process that could see a single unitary authority replace the current local government system....

Huge onion wins £1,000

Sep 26 2007

GARDENER Paul Rochester has grown the most valuable ounce of onion in the world....

Flood defence system proves its worth early

Sep 26 2007

WORK on a Northumberland town’s new £8m flood defence system is nearly complete....

Roads and rail boost for region

Sep 26 2007

TRANSPORT minister Ruth Kelly yesterday gave her backing to calls for London-style transport powers in the North-East....

Business as usual at the Foundation

Sep 26 2007

IT’S business as usual at the Northern Rock Foundation as they announced a series of grants to tackle disadvantage in the region yesterday....

Anger over TV duo's joke

Sep 26 2007

GEORDIE television entertainers Ant and Dec came under fire yesterday after they failed to apologise for making a joke at the expense of Northern Rock....

New Monkey father and son face drugs charges

Sep 26 2007

A FATHER and a son involved in the running of a nightclub where a teenager died after taking ecstasy went on trial yesterday charged with drugs offences....

Up to three years wait for treatment

Sep 26 2007

CHILDREN in the North-East suffering mental health problems are waiting over two years for treatment – and the numbers of patients are rising....

‘One stop shop’ plan for NHS

Sep 26 2007

NEWCASTLE hospitals could give patients a ‘golden thread’ of seamless treatment if they became the main focus for health care in the future, according to the trust....

That takes a lot of bottle

Sep 26 2007

AN inventive new Tyneside company has grand designs on a mass of plastic waste – much of which ends up in landfill sites....

Opencast plan set for refusal

Sep 26 2007

FAMILIES in a former Northumberland pit town look set to win their battle against plans to operate a major opencast coal mine near their homes for almost seven years....

Baltic child picture is seized by police

Sep 26 2007

POLICE and gallery bosses refused last night to identify the artist whose work is at the centre of a child porn probe....

Shearer has the blues

Sep 26 2007

NEWCASTLE United legends Alan Shearer and Peter Beardsley are set to team up at St James’s Park, but they won’t be wearing the famous black and white stripes....

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