Feb
2008
Articles from 26th Feb 2008
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Easy rider Shearer aims high
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
ALAN Shearer last night told how he fears for his nether regions, ahead of a gruelling 335-mile charity bike ride he must complete in just two days. Read
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Pressure builds on ‘undemocratic’ PO
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A SECOND rural council is set to call on Post Office bosses to change their ‘undemocratic’ plans for public consultation over the future of threatened post offices in Northumberland. Read
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Foreshore planning is at a critical stage
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
THREE years of planning to transform the seafront at South Shields reaches a critical point today. Read
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Record visitors for historic attraction
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
ONE of the North’s most famous tourist attractions has emerged from darkness to celebrate its best ever visitor numbers, figures revealed yesterday. Read
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Chirpy singers give pop a Geordie twist
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A FAMILY from the North East is taking the internet by storm with a peculiarly regional take on a Seventies pop classic. Read
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MS cost prison worker his job
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A PRISON worker with multiple sclerosis lost his job after he became a “danger to himself and his colleagues”, a tribunal was told yesterday. Read
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30 suspended over porn email probe
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
UP to 30 hospital staff have been suspended in an ongoing probe into the sending of obscene emails. Read
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Seconds to live as knife hit an artery
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A YOUNG mother stabbed to death during a street confrontation would have collapsed within seconds of the fatal blow, a murder trial heard yesterday. Read
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Fears as children are born too early
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A MOTHER whose baby daughter is in intensive care after being born 14 weeks early is backing a campaign calling for a Government inquiry into premature birth. Read
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Bid to woo midwives back
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
HEALTH Secretary Alan Johnson used a visit to the North to yesterday announce plans to entice former midwives back to the profession. Read
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Dad bought stun gun at farming fair
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A MAN who bought an electric stun gun to use as a cattle prod has escaped being jailed. Read
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Family cancer ordeal
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
A NORTH golfer has spoken for the first time since his son was diagnosed with cancer – which claimed the life of his father only six weeks ago. Read
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Memory of Josie is as strong as ever
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
IT is exactly one year since Northumberland teenager Josie Grove lost her battle with leukaemia, but to her family her memory remains as strong as ever. Read
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Study shows treatment switch can save children’s lives
Feb 26 2008 | Today's News
CHEMOTHERAPY given with shorter intervals between treatments increases survival rates by two-thirds in children with a rare form of cancer, according to North East-based research. Read
