Jan
2009
Articles from 5th Jan 2009
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Cost soars as rot sets in for recycling
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
THE North East has been hit by a triple whammy of environmental setbacks which threaten to force up recycling bills. Read
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Uneven floor is no bar to homeless bowlers
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
AN indoor bowls club washed out, then burnt out of its hall has a new home – with an uneven floor. The summer washout forced Shilbottle bowlers to cancel a tournament – even though it was being played inside – because of the leaky roof of the village’s welfare hall. Read
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Windfall will open countryside to all
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
A CASH windfall will open up access to a remote moorland nature reserve for almost 3,000 people over the next three years. Read
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Chloe Wilson survives the 10% odds of survival
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
A TINY baby girl given a 10% chance of survival after she and her twin were born at just 23 weeks has defied the odds and been brought home. Read
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Missing mum Sandra Mujuru and baby found
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
A HEAVILY-pregnant woman who went missing from her Northumberland home last week has been found in London. Read
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Blyth Spartans players urged to play for pride
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
BLYTH Spartans players were last night urged to do themselves and the town proud in tonight’s FA Cup date with destiny. Read
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Hope for villagers priced out of homes
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
VILLAGES, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. Read
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Support for reintroduction of lynx
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
A BIG cat could be reintroduced to Northern countryside after becoming extinct in medieval times. Read
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Chicken row will go up before beak
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
A ROW over a chicken farm is going all the way to the High Court. Dominic and Alice Elsworth, of Whistlebare Farm, Bowsden, near Berwick in Northumberland, have started judicial review proceedings after councillors consented to a free-range unit of up to 16,000 birds on neighbouring land. Read
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Unlucky break on first TV news show
Jan 05 2009 | Today's News
TODAY is the 50th anniversary of BBC news broadcasts from the North East. On January 5, 1959, News of the North was first shown, filmed in a studio in Newcastle’s New Bridge Street which was formerly a Victorian lying-in hospital, a maternity unit. Read
