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Today's News for 12 December 2007

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Sons stay away as canoe wife faces cell

Dec 12 2007

THE "emotional" wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist made a plea to their sons yesterday to visit her in prison. ...

Blimp protest over turbines

Dec 12 2007

ANTI-WIND farm protesters in Northumberland yesterday flew blimps at three proposed development locations to coincide with a planners’ site visit....

Abraham has gift for blunders

Dec 12 2007

LABOUR benefactor David Abrahams finally appeared publicly yesterday for the first time since the donations controversy broke....

Men (and women) in black

Dec 12 2007

A NEW hi-tech uniform tailored to the needs of modern policing went on public display yesterday....

Better than Hollywood

Dec 12 2007

YOUNGSTERS on Tyneside are to challenge Hollywood’s version of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf – by making their own film version....

A BELEAGUERED councillor accused of rigging an online vote stood down as the leader of his party grouping – only to be reinstated hours later after his party bosses decided he had done nothing wrong....

Nationalising Rock ‘would be a failure’

Dec 12 2007

TORY leader David Cameron last night warned it would be a “monumental failure” if Northern Rock was nationalised....

Grace’s coble returns as the storms clear

Dec 12 2007

WILD weather over the last few days looked as if it would scupper plans to winch heroine Grace Darling’s coble into the revamped museum which celebrates her legend....

'I'd fire that bullet again'

Dec 12 2007

THE POLICE marksman who fired the shot which killed a man in Northumberland said yesterday he did not regret his actions....

Doctor may be struck off over diet pill danger

Dec 12 2007

A NORTH doctor could be struck off after admitting he gave a healthy woman a controversial diet pill without warning of its potential dangers....

Totem poles are at heart of flood defences

Dec 12 2007

A FLOOD defence project is doubling as artwork in a Northumberland town. Work is finally coming to an end on an £8m scheme to cut the risk of flooding in Hexham. ...

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