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May 15 2008
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday put reform of public services and welfare at the heart of his legislative programme for the year, promising to give people more control over healthcare, schools and policing....
May 15 2008
AN international plastic bin crisis caused by massive orders from Eastern Europe is thwarting the efforts of green-thinking residents in a Northumberland borough....
May 15 2008
GORDON Brown has rejected calls from thousands of people in the North East to fully dual the A1 through Northumberland to boost safety and economic development....
May 15 2008
A NORTH Tyneside school is spending £15,000 on the latest fingerprinting technology to curb bullying at lunchtime. Every child attending Churchill Community College in Howdon, has had their thumb prints scanned ahead of the launch of the new cashless payment system....
May 15 2008
A WAR veteran who suffered a savage beating in his Newcastle home has died in hospital, police revealed yesterday....
May 15 2008
THE Northern Rock Foundation yesterday announced it was reopening its grants programme for culture and heritage projects....
May 15 2008
GATESHEAD’s Baltic arts centre was dealt a blow yesterday with the announcement that the operators of its prestigious rooftop restaurant will move across the River Tyne....
May 15 2008
THERE was double success for a Durham primary at the North East School Awards yesterday....
May 15 2008
THE owner of one of the region’s most famous and impressive stately homes is in talks with the National Trust over its future....
May 15 2008
A NEW kitchen would be on the menu for the children at a Northumberland school if they were to win a cash prize in The Journal’s Tokens for Schools competition....
May 15 2008
LIBERAL Democrats have chosen the eight councillors who will take up the key executive posts in the new minority administration which will run Northumberland County Council....
May 15 2008
A TEENAGER from the North thought to have been targeted in a house explosion is lucky to be alive, her mother said yesterday....