Mar
2009
Articles from 28th Mar 2009
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Scrappage car scheme will boost sales
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
THE North’s car industry could be thrown a cash lifeline by the Chancellor in his upcoming Budget. Read
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Bosses silent over homes fraud probe
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
PROPERTY directors at the centre of a major fraud investigation refused to speak last night as thousands of clients faced losing their homes. Read
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Why did Newcastle Airport boss receive huge bonus?
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
DEMANDS were made last night for an investigation into how Newcastle Airport’s ex-chief executive was allowed to claim a bonus worth more than £2m. Read
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Mother of three dies in Wooler house fire
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A MOTHER of three died after fire ripped through her Northumberland home. Paramedics fought to save Mandy Pearse after she was pulled from the burning building by firefighters in the early hours of yesterday morning. Read
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Dreamspace families vent fury at council
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
GRIEVING relatives of the Dreamspace disaster last night labelled the council response to the tragedy “sickening”. Read
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Hopes are high as Pegasus takes off
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
WORK is due to start within weeks on building a flagship £1.2m equestrian centre in Northumberland for disabled riders. Read
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Rare seam of gold pulls in the visitors
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A RARE flower has become one of the North East’s niche visitor attractions. Yellow snowdrops are largely confined to an area of north Northumberland between Belford and Wooler. Read
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Grants will help spread the word on environment
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
DIFFERENT ways of dealing with waste have been given a cash boost. The grants are part of £53,000 in awards by North East green support services provider eaga. Read
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Schools join the great plant hunt
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
HUNDREDS of primary schools in the North East are being given the chance to join in a national Great Plant Hunt. Read
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Seaton Delaval Hall appeal is now going at a gallop
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A CUT of the ticket sales from a popular day of horseracing is to be donated to an appeal to save a historic Northumberland home. Read
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Tourism: the Gospel truth
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
THE Lindisfarne Gospels could be used to kick start a new era of tourism in the North East as campaigners look to capitalise on the region’s unique heritage. Read
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How Tracy Beaker will save region
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A£2m investment in North East talent will boost the region’s ailing television industry and pave the way for future productions, a BBC chief claimed. Read
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County Durham edition of Monopoly being made
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
LOCALS call them Heaven and Hell and both appear prominently on the city’s skyline. Now Durham’s cathedral and jail will be even closer together, on the board of a new monopoly game. Read
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Dad jailed after night out ends in violence
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A FATHER subjected his partner to a brutal assault because she left him to walk home from a night out. Read
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Race mission for family hit by tragedy
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
THE mother and brother of a young woman who died after suffering an epileptic seizure are to take part in the Great North Run in her memory. Read
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Canoe pair lose appeal on sentence
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
THE back-from-the-dead canoe couple have lost appeals against their jail sentences for their “sophisticated” £250,000 fraud. Read
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HMS Illustrious bids a farewell to the Tyne
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
A MAJESTIC warship has bid a fond farewell to the Tyne after a four-day stay at its birthplace. HMS Illustrious sailed into Tynemouth on Tuesday and berthed at the Northumbrian Quay, in North Shields. Read
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Sun rises again on Blyth seafront favourites
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
BLYTH beach was the setting for a slice of history when 20 brightly coloured beach chalets were officially handed over to the town. Read
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Throne that is fit for The King’s School, Tynemouth
Mar 28 2009 | Today's News
SCHOOL chairs are usually functional, stackable and definitely not designed for daydreaming. Read
