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Today's News for 23 February 2008

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Arrested over ‘web squatting’

Feb 23 2008

TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of “wi-fi squatting” after allegedly logging on to another person’s internet connection illegally....

Change at the top for Rock's board

Feb 23 2008

NORTHERN Rock’s new management board members settled into their first day as a nationalised bank yesterday....

Stars and family rally round Gascoigne

Feb 23 2008

FORMER Newcastle star Paul Gascoigne yesterday received scores of messages from his family and fellow football stars pledging their support to his recovery....

Wind batters region

Feb 23 2008

GALE force winds battered the North East yesterday and caused havoc across the region....

Council in job blunder

Feb 23 2008

A FORMER councillor has lost his new job with the same local authority after embarrassed town hall chiefs were forced to admit they should never have employed him in the first place....

Probe launched after man dies in custody

Feb 23 2008

A POLICE watchdog is investigating the death of a man hours after he had been taken into custody....

Two-and-a-half tonnes of rubbish found in stream clean-up

Feb 23 2008

GREEN wardens had a gut feeling that they had their work cut out as they set off to clean out a Tyneside stream....

Too ill for work but seen on till

Feb 23 2008

SWINDLER Carol Ann Scott claimed she was unable to work due to a heart condition and back pain....

THE butcher, the baker and the artisan cheese-maker are just some of the local retailers, producers and caterers that have signed up to the new Journal Taste North East England Campaign online business directory....

Pictures of the month

Feb 23 2008

OUR second selection of great Journal photographs takes in celebrations from around the world....

‘We are just dumping ground for anything’

Feb 23 2008

PEOPLE in a cluster of former mining villages fear they are about to be invaded by huge wind turbines after plans for a mini-windfarm on the Northumberland coast were approved by the Government....

Life sentence for alcohol fuelled killer

Feb 23 2008

A KNIFEMAN who stabbed a father-of-two to death in a frenzied attack during a drinking session was jailed for life yesterday....

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