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Joking in the the face of adversity
A THOUSAND or so steel jobs are hanging by a thread on Teesside. A second Government minister in the Mandelson/Hinduja passport controversy is facing pressure to resign. But, it seems, Tony Blair is keeping his sense of humour. This week, Stockton South
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Comment from The Northern Echo: Gas suppliers under pressure
WE were promised that the breaking of the British Gas monopoly would drive down prices. It would appear the forces of competition have not had the desired effect. In recent weeks, four of the new suppliers have increased their prices by between four and
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Education office workers' parking prompts warning
PEOPLE are warning that someone will be killed or seriously injured on their Darlington estate, if the council does not address traffic problems. Residents in the Mowden area of town say they are tired of having to dodge parked cars to get to their homes
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Lewis v Tyson is all set
Lennox Lewis is set for a 100m US dollars summer showdown with Mike Tyson. Lewis' advisers have revealed July 21 as their favoured date for a fight which will smash all financial records. And for the first time Tyson camp have hinted they are ready and
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Thieving trolley well Asda stop . . .
SUPERMARKET bosses are always complaining about customers who go off with their trolleys. But beleaguered assistants at Asda's South Bank store on Teesside now fear the thieves are going off their trolleys too, after finding them being used as barbecues
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Darlington on course
DARLINGTON player-coach Phil Lancaster, Durham county captain for the last two years, admits the selectors are in a quandary over this season's County Championship. The first match is away to Leicestershire on Easter Monday, April 16, followed by Notts
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A tale of mice and men
SO far, the mice have failed to produce a best-selling novel set in Edwardian Newcastle, but there is a little bit of Catherine Cookson in the white laboratory rodents running around Newcastle University - even if they don't know it. Bizarrely, yesterday's
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Strong pace should help Linea-G to another win
There can't have been many more memorable moments for Mary Reveley than Function Dream's scintillating success over an under-par Flagship Uberalles at Newbury on Saturday. Monday means it's back to much more mundane meetings and Mary can make her mark
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Revving Rev
REVVING Reverend Graham Taylor has a laid-back approach to visiting his parishioners. Proudly astride his Yamaha XV 1100 chopper bike, with cassock blowing in the wind and an open-face helmet, he looks more like a bat out of hell than a servant of God
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Ugo strike extends Tel's unbeaten run
UGO EHIOGU learned that loyalty counts for nothing in football on the day he returned to Villa Park with a vengeance. Middlesbrough's record £8m signing devoted more than nine years of his career to Villa, but the acrimonious nature of his departure nearly
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Zamora a dazzler at Brighton
BOBBY Zamora's 20th goal of the season settled the Third Division's match of the day and gave Brighton a 1-0 win over Cardiff who had Gavin Gordon sent off for violent conduct five minutes from time. But the Seagulls are still 13 points behind leaders
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Wash out no help in relegation fight
DARLINGTON'S battle against relegation intensified after a blank weekend saw them drop a further place towards the bottom of the football league. Quakers game with Shrewsbury was postponed just 20 minutes before kick off on Saturday - and with Torquay
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Internet chat girl, 15, missing
A young grammar school girl has disappeared after telling friends she was going to visit an older man she met through an Internet chatroom. Friends of Alison Wood, 15, told detectives that she said she was going to travel to Swindon, Wiltshire, to see
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Teenagers convicted of wounding
Two teenagers, armed with a stick and a pool ball in a sock, attacked a work colleague in the street, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday. Jonathon McIlvenney, 18, and Mark Elliott, 19, were convicted of wounding Steven Forrest when all three were trainees
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Rally driver is due home after crash
A YOUNG rally driver is due back in the North-East next week, following a car crash in Sweden. Guy Wilks, from Heighington, near Darlington, was injured when his Ford Puma car crashed into a private vehicle. Contrary to earlier reports, the 19-year-old
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Sorensen expects to end Liverpool jinx
DANISH international goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen is confident Sunderland can halt their worrying Premiership slide by breaking a 43-year hoodoo against Liverpool this afternoon. The Wearsiders have slipped to fourth place in the table following defeats
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Crozier in code vow
FOOTBALL Association chief executive Adam Crozier has taken steps to ensure his tough new disciplinary code is rigidly enforced. Crozier personally instigated a crackdown on players' behaviour at the start of the season but in several decisions by the
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Pool's midfield trio earn
POSITIVE Hartlepool United boss Chris Turner last night saluted the midfield trio he believes is the best in the business. Pool entertain fellow form side Blackpool at Victoria Park this afternoon, with Turner - who was yesterday presented with the Nationwide
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Bell rings out a warning for Marske's Vase rivals
Marske United manager Charlie Bell has told his players that they have nothing to fear when they take on Marlow for a place in the quarter-finals of the FA Carlsberg Vase this afternoon. Marske head south confident they can continue their dream run and
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Bonnie - a dog you can count on
WHEN it comes to arithmetic, Bonnie the Dalmatian is always spot on. Hazel Hill knew her pet was clever, but even she never expected her to be up to counting. Bonnie, the seven-year-old Dalmatian, first showed her amazing talent for numbers as she begged
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Top boss Venables would prefer to have award in May
TERRY Venables picked up the manager of the month prize for January and declared he'd be a happier man if he landed the award again come May. Middlesbrough's head coach, who couldn't remember the last time he took the accolade, was quick to point out
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MR bean rejuvenated in animated series
LICENSING and merchandising group Entertainment Rights has snapped up the intellectual property rights for a new cartoon version of the accident-prone comedy character Mr Bean. A 52-part animated series is being produced for ITV, with Rowan Atkinson continuing
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Watch out for old mate Merson, Boro warned
MIDDLESBROUGH go into today's game against an unpredictable Aston Villa side with Terry Venables warning against the threat of former Riverside favourite Paul Merson. Boro go into the game looking to extend their unbeaten run to 12 games, and hoping to
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Is the Dream really over now?
SEGA did more to popularise video gaming in this country than any company since Atari. First the Master System then the Mega-Drive made consoles seem cool once again. Even Nintendo couldn't compete. So it was with a heavy heart that I read last week of
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The religion of yoga
MADONNA swears by it, Geri Halliwell says it's responsible for her new shape and Sting's done it for years. Yoga, once done by a few ladies in the village hall, is suddenly big business, and anyone who knows anything about health and fitness has tried
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Enron Direct jobs in pipeline
ENRON Direct, one of the UK's leading suppliers of gas and electricity to small and medium-sized businesses, is expanding its Teesside operations, creating 46 new jobs. The company is establishing a new customer service centre at its administrative base
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£500 fine for selling fireworks to boy, 15
A SHOP owner was fined £500 plus £175 costs yesterday for selling fireworks to a 15-year-old boy. John King, of Kings of Saltburn, appeared before Guisborough magistrates charged with selling fireworks to a person apparently under 18. He admitted selling
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Getting it right for the elderly...
IT would be wrong to dismiss as misguided the Conservative Party's proposals to reform our pensions regime. What is misguided is the contention that the current system, based so heavily on means-tested benefits, is meeting the needs of our most impoverished
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Burning questions
What is the significance of the archaeological finds of Sutton Hoo? - Graham Dobson, Houghton-le-Spring. Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, was the site of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship excavated in 1939. The ship contained a coffin and a large quantity
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North-East potholers found dead in cavern
Two North-East potholers were found dead yesterday - suspended by ropes halfway up an underground waterfall. The bodies of Ray Lea, 58, and Julian Carroll, 29, were discovered in a cavern on the North Yorkshire-Lancashire border, after they were reported
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Heroine Ellen sails in on top of the world
Ellen MacArthur finished second in the Vendee Globe yacht race last night to become the fastest woman and youngest person to circumnavigate the globe in a single-handed race. The 24-year-old, from land-locked Derbyshire, received a tumultuous welcome
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Another season of woe in the capital
NEWCASTLE'S miserable record in London continued down at The Valley where strikers Matt Svensson and Shaun Bartlett inflicted more capital punishment on Bobby Robson's men. The win propelled Charlton up to seventh place and above Newcastle in the Premiership
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Leeds suffer Ram raid
Rio Ferdinand is savouring the chance to prove himself against Europe's top stars in the Champions League and hopes elite continental competition will again bring out the best in his Leeds teammates. Not for the first time this season, Leeds faltered
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Officious referee spreads yellow peril as Liverpool take point from Sunderland
ANOTHER display of rank bad refereeing spoiled an intriguing clash between two of the Premiership's leading European contenders. Hertfordshire referee Graham Barber awarded a penalty that never was, disallowed a goal that should have been, and performed
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Karembeu injury mars Boro draw
WORRIED Middlesbrough midfielder Christian Karembeu was in hospital on Saturday night after suffering a loss of vision in one eye during the game at Aston Villa. The France star, a World Cup winner in 1998 and a member of the triumphant Euro 2000 squad
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What's hot and not
FISHY RACING: If you are sick of the Lottery and bored of having a flutter on the races, you need to log on to the latest betting sensation. William Hill are starting goldfish races with big money available to anyone willing to put their faith in the
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West is best for thousands of fans
HEARTTHROB boyband Westlife began a string of five shows at the Telewest Arena in Newcastle last night with a performance in front of thousands of screaming fans. The five Irish teen idols, who have recorded this year's Comic Relief single, a version
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Fowler ready for Kev, warns Hamann
Robbie Fowler is again ready to put the 'frighteners' on Premiership defences, claims team-mate Dietmar Hamann. The German midfielder said he had been hugely impressed by the Liverpool striker's comeback, which continues in the top-of-the-table clash
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Farmer left 12 dead sheep lying in fields
A RESPECTED Dales farmer, whose animals won prizes at agricultural shows, left dead sheep on her fields and a lamb dying from a gaping wound, a court heard yesterday. North Yorkshire mother-of-four Helen Benson, who was born into a farming family and
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Drugs ban athlete seeks rules change
SEX slur athlete Kathy Jager has helped to form a committee she hopes will rewrite the rules to level the playing field for older athletes, The Northern Echo can reveal. The move comes in the wake of the failure of the 56-year-old American to have the
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Bennett determined to solve attitude problem
A POSITIVE attitude is the key to Darlington triumphing in their crucial clash with fellow strugglers Shrewsbury at Feethams today, according to manager Gary Bennett. Quakers are now just four points off the bottom of the table following Carlisle's victory
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Land Rover to cut back by 250
LAND Rover is to cut up to 250 jobs at its Solihull plant in the West Midlands. Voluntary redundancies are being sought following a change in shift patterns due to a shortfall in diesel engine supply. The cutbacks will affect production of the Land Rover
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Bumper week of blue chips ahead
THE City has another bumper week of blue chip results to look forward to, with figures due out from giants such as BP Amoco, Lloyds TSB and Cadbury Schweppes. The fuel protest lobby will be keeping a close eye on the annual figures presented by petroleum
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Darlington have brothers back in harness
DARLINGTON welcome back fly half Paul Lee today for the first time since he was punched in the eye against Huddersfield on October 21. Lee's vision was affected and the need to put his career in the Fire Service first raised doubts about his future in
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Entrepreneurial gloom
BRITONS are three times less likely to start their own business than people in the Third World, according to a new report. Brazil, Argentina and India all have more entrepreneurial activity per head than the UK, according to the report by Ernst &
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Tel was my inspiration, reveals Gregory
Aston Villa boss John Gregory has revealed that Terry Venables was the inspiration behind him moving into football management. Former England midfielder Gregory was in his prime as a player when he worked for four years under Venables at Queen's Park
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A poem for Hannah
My Valentine Miner's son and miner's daughter, Fell in love and so they oughter. He a tall handsome guy, She seventeen and very shy. Miner's daughter and miner's son, Two years courting, lots of fun. "Love me," he said, "Love my motorbike." Crafty, she
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Weaker housing market costs Beazer profits dip
THE weaker housing market in the middle of 2000 led to a decline in half-year profits at housebuilder Beazer, the group said in its last set of results before being taken over by rival Persimmon. Beazer, of Bath, showed pre-tax profits for the six months
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His truth goes marching on... and on
THE Salvation Army citadel stands enduringly in Bolckow Street, Eston, the Cleveland Bay next door on one side, the Wellington Hotel 100 yards away on the other. It was once an ironstone village, Henry Bolckow the ironmaster, and still a village when
