Mar
2010
Articles from 24th Mar 2010
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Future is bleak for BAE staff on Scotswood Road
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
BAE Systems bosses are to hold talks with staff in the next couple of weeks to pick through the wreckage of their failed bid for a massive Government armoured vehicle contract. Read
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Recognition for teenage wildlife photographer Will Nicholls
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
TEENAGE wildlife photographer Will Nicholls is happy to mix business and pleasure. Read
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Community in shock after girl's rape claim
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
POLICE have launched an investigation after a schoolgirl alleged she was raped on a patch of parkland in Northumberland. Read
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Calls to keep Newcastle Central Station in public hands
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
TRANSPORT bosses have called for the region’s most important train station to be kept in public hands and not included in the next rail franchise. Read
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MPs axe Tyne and Wear Sustainable Travel City chances
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
HOPES of an enormous cash injection to make Tyneside one of the best places in the UK for green travel have been shattered by the Government. Read
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Widdrington villagers against new opencast plans
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
FED-UP villagers have come out strongly against plans for another opencast mine in a coalfield community where people have lived with the industry for 70 years. Read
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Bell from warship HMS Kelly to be sold at auction
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
THE bell from a Tyne warship which inspired a classic film is to be sold at auction in London today. Read
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Jacqui Grove performs zip-slide for Josie Grove charity
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
THE mum of inspirational cancer victim Josie Grove has faced one of her biggest fears to raise money in her daughter’s memory. Read
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Second bell ringing up a sale today
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
ANOTHER bell from a Tyne warship will be auctioned in the same London sale. Read
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Volcano could help understand floods
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
THE eruption of an Icelandic volcano which had lain dormant for 200 years could have reverberations for studies of flooding in the North East. Read
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Widdrington mother no longer feels safe after arson attack
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
A MUM-OF-TWO has told how she fled her home when arsonists struck just hours after a bizarre break-in. Read
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Crooks jailed for scam on 'Benefit Britain'
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
BRAZEN euro crooks who plundered almost half a million from “Benefit Britain” were today beginning jail sentences totaling more than 13 years. Read
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Child sex victim sues attacker for £100,000
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
A PAEDOPHILE is being sued by one of his victims. Former teacher Ronald Heron is being sued for up to £100,000 by a woman who he sexually abused over a six-year period when she was a child. Read
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Widow angered at leaked papers on blood scandal costs
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
A WIDOW whose haemophiliac husband died after receiving contaminated blood is angered at leaked documents showing Government viewed those affected by the bad blood scandal as simply a set of “cost figures”. Read
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Denise Robertson lends support to St Cuthbert's Hospice
Mar 24 2010 | Today's News
JOURNAL columnist and TV agony aunt Denise Robertson paid a first time visit to Durham’s St Cuthbert’s Hospice yesterday to renew her support for a girls’ night out with a difference. Read
