TOURISM officials have splashed out in their latest bid to attract visitors to Cumbria. Restaurant manager Michelle Blignault set a new record for the world’s highest luxury bath 2,000ft up Fleetwood Pike in the Lake District.Read
MORE than a thousand years separate the two biggest steps in Keith Merrin’s career. For six years Keith, 38, was director of Bede’s World in Jarrow which is devoted to the life and influence of the Venerable Bede in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.Read
A NEWCASTLE specialist centre for blind and partially sighted people was declared an example to the rest of the country by David Blunkett yesterday.Read
A DEAL to create the Woodland Trust’s biggest holding in the North of England has now been completed. As revealed in The Journal this month, the plan involves a major extension to Elemore Woods on the County Durham and Sunderland border.Read
TEENAGE mothers across the country are set to benefit from a North-East project giving advice to new mums and dads after its success across the region.Read
PLANS for a new first school on one of the North’s most upmarket housing estates will be pushed through ahead of schedule to help attract new residents and businesses, developers said yesterday.Read
A REGISTERED childminder failed to get help for an obviously injured girl in her care. Kavita Kohli had charge of two-year-old Emily Berry when she suffered extensive bruising to her face and body and a trapped ligament in her arm, Newcastle Crown Court heard yesterday.Read
