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Today's News for 26 February 2008

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30 suspended over porn email probe

Feb 26 2008

UP to 30 hospital staff have been suspended in an ongoing probe into the sending of obscene emails....

Chirpy singers give pop a Geordie twist

Feb 26 2008

A FAMILY from the North East is taking the internet by storm with a peculiarly regional take on a Seventies pop classic....

Record visitors for historic attraction

Feb 26 2008

ONE of the North’s most famous tourist attractions has emerged from darkness to celebrate its best ever visitor numbers, figures revealed yesterday....

MS cost prison worker his job

Feb 26 2008

A PRISON worker with multiple sclerosis lost his job after he became a “danger to himself and his colleagues”, a tribunal was told yesterday....

Dad bought stun gun at farming fair

Feb 26 2008

A MAN who bought an electric stun gun to use as a cattle prod has escaped being jailed....

Easy rider Shearer aims high

Feb 26 2008

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....

Bid to woo midwives back

Feb 26 2008

HEALTH Secretary Alan Johnson used a visit to the North to yesterday announce plans to entice former midwives back to the profession....

Fears as children are born too early

Feb 26 2008

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....

Seconds to live as knife hit an artery

Feb 26 2008

A YOUNG mother stabbed to death during a street confrontation would have collapsed within seconds of the fatal blow, a murder trial heard yesterday....

Memory of Josie is as strong as ever

Feb 26 2008

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....

Foreshore planning is at a critical stage

Feb 26 2008

THREE years of planning to transform the seafront at South Shields reaches a critical point today....

Pressure builds on ‘undemocratic’ PO

Feb 26 2008

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....

Study shows treatment switch can save children’s lives

Feb 26 2008

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....

Family cancer ordeal

Feb 26 2008

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....

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