QUICK-THINKING central defender Jody Craddock, whose unstinting efforts in the 1-0 victory over Manchester City helped Sunderland keep their third consecutive Premiership clean sheet at the Stadium of Light, will be one of the first names on Peter Reid's
Bobby Robson has revealed that Newcastle were prepared to pay £12m for Robbie Keane before the Inter Milan striker joined Leeds on loan with a view to a permanent deal. Keane will be out to show the Geordies what they missed today in front of a sell-out
Darlington manager Gary Bennett has demanded a repeat performance from his players at leaders Chesterfield today. Quakers picked up only their second win in the last ten League matches by beating Lincoln City 3-0 at Feethams on Saturday, but the visitors
AN elderly woman needed hospital treatment after being given the wrong medication by a care home worker. County Durham Care, which runs East Green Home, in West Auckland, County Durham, launched an investigation after a resident had to be taken to Bishop
WHAT a jolly lot you are. The Northern Echo was inundated with nominations for entries into our Ho Ho Homes competition. The contest - run in conjunction with Century FM - to find the brightest festive house in the region, has seen some wonderful entries
Forget the Oscars, as the Wear View Diner receives the Breakfast Club's ultimate accolade FROM an entry of many millions, political correctitude's most miserable manifestation concerns a Beano character called Les Pretend, most kindly described as a romantic
THE young orphan opened his shoebox of presents and pulled out a bar of chocolate - something he had never seen before. However, instead of eating it, he broke it up into squares and ran after the strangers who had given it to him, insisting on sharing
THE Hymers family have been time travelling, taking part in an incredible living experiment that took them from the year 2000 to 1940. This family of five moved from Otley in Yorkshire to 17 Braemar Gardens, West Wickham in Kent and lived there as if
THE natural charm, good humour, and down to earth style of Prince William have done a great deal of late to boost the image of the Royal Family. How sad that his good work, which has brought back fond memories of his mother's unparalleled public relations
TINY bundle of joy Chloe Marie Thompson was determined to put off her arrival until Christmas. Eager Mum and Dad Ann-Marie Lunn and Nigel Thompson saw Chloe's December 17 due date come and go, and had prepared for a little extra help from staff at Bishop
DEATH on the roads brought misery to several North-East families this Christmas. Police were last night hunting two people who fled the scene of an accident which left a driver dead on Christmas Eve. At about 7.50pm, a Rover 214 pulling on to Marton Road
The Princess Royal upset well-wishers yesterday, prompting them to accuse her of forgetting the meaning of Christmas. The Queen's daughter snatched a basket of flowers made by an elderly Royal fan and snapped: "What a ridiculous thing to do." Mary Halfpenny
NEWCASTLE Falcons could face a selection dilemma for tomorrow's home match against Bristol. With first choice centres Tom May and Jamie Noon already injured, Liam Botham had to retire with a shoulder problem in the first half of Saturday's 28-13 defeat
DARLINGTON are to lose last season's England Schools prop Dan Miller to Bath next year. Still only 18, the former Richmond School pupil has recently become a fixture in Darlington's first team, helping them to a 96-7 win at home to York on Saturday. He
Crowd target Christian Ziege looks likely to sidestep the ordeal of a return to the Riverside Stadium with in-form Liverpool today. Ziege, the top name on a list of high-priced players who walked out on Middlesbrough, was omitted from the Liverpool line-up
VIRGIN'S ambitious plans to build a 210mph rail route linking London with the North may have cost it the East Coast Main Line franchise, it has emerged. Sir Richard Branson's rail company had proposed a new 120-mile stretch of high-speed track that would
CHRISTMAS arrived 48 hours early at Victoria Park on Saturday - and now boss Chris Turner has called on his buoyant players to keep their run going at Carlisle this afternoon. Pool go to Cumbria on the back of a thumping 6-1 win over Barnet - their biggest
PREPARE to be bowled over by Lady Cricket (2.15) in this afternoon's star-studded £150,000 King George V1 Chase at Kempton. It's not often punters get the chance to back any horse trained by Martin Pipe and ridden by Tony McCoy at double-digit odds, but
ALLISON was so weak after she had her third baby, nurses wouldn't trust her with the new arrival. "They wheeled my bed up to her incubator. I really wanted to hold her but they wouldn't let me because I was so full of drugs they were frightened I would
AN unexpected celebrity guest caused more than a slight stir on the terraces at a North-East football ground on Saturday. Attending her first football match was the notorious Cynthia Payne, who shot to fame when her London bordello was raided in the 1980s
ALFRED Wainwright won his place in hiking history with illustrated guides to routes through some of Britain's most picturesque landscapes. Now a section of his coast-to- coast walk is being given legal status, and enshrined as a designated right-of-way
A YOUNG man left paralysed below the shoulders after an accident is spending Christmas and New Year at home with his family. Michael Rowe, 21, was injured when gales blew down a tree on top of his car, on the Fishburn to Trimdon road, in County Durham
