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Fear factor is inspiration for Tellison
THE Wages of Fear is a 1953 film about a group of desperate men trapped in a dead-end town in South America, who are hired by a crooked oil company to transport deadly chemicals without the equipment that would make it safe. On the face of it, it's not
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Grappling action, Mexican style makes Sage bow
LYCRA will be in fashion for one night only later this month when the Mexican wrestling phenomena that is Lucha Future comes to the North-East. Appearing at The Sage Gateshead on June 28, the show features spectacular stunts, eye-catching outfits, Mexican
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Wilks looking to reignite title challenge in Belgium
GUY Wilks is more determined than ever to reignite his title challenge as he prepares for this weeks Geko Ypres Rally. The rally, the fifth round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, runs from Friday to Sunday. Wilks, from Darlington, is currently
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Plans for shadow mayors axed
CONTROVERSIAL Government plans to require England's largest 11 city councils, including Newcastle, to appoint shadow mayors in advance of local referendums on whether to turn their council leaders into executive mayors are to be deleted from the Localism
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Lucky escape as car overturns in County Durham
A FAMILY had a lucky escape when their car overturned following a two-vehicle collision in County Durham. The Great North Air Ambulance was called to the A693 between Consett and Annfield Plain shortly before 6pm tonight. A spokesman said: "The car
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Collingwood on song with a Durham century
PAUL Collingwood is an ex- Test player, but he showed all his international class yesterday with a masterful century against Yorkshire. It helped Durham to 408 for eight declared, a lead of 223, and in seven overs Yorkshire reached 13 without
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Thomson targets promotion for Boro
KEVIN THOMSON is confident Middlesbrough can deliver promotion back to the Premier League next season – despite a lack of transfer activity. When Thomson moved last summer from Rangers in a £2.5m deal, he joined with the intention of spending
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Darlington care home company to close abuse probe facility
DARLINGTON-based care home providers, Castlebeck, are to close a home at the centre of allegations of abuse of vulnerable adult patients. Castlebeck said it had voluntarily relinquished the hospital registration of Winterbourne View, near Bristol, where
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Musical tribute to Sir Norman
A MUSICAL tribute to a legendary comedian will take place next month. Glenn Ford, who appeared on Britain's Got Talent, will perform a tribute to the late Sir Norman Wisdom at Shildon Civic Hall, in County Durham, from 7.30pm on Friday, July 1.
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Woman hails win in flooding fight
A WOMAN whose property was flooded twice after a housing estate was built nearby has hailed a victory over the authorities. Carole Hodgson, 52, said she and her neighbours were pleased with £250,000 works designed to prevent future flooding. Mrs
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College unveils £2m science block
A £2M science block has been opened at a Teesside college. Professor Christopher Higgins, vice-chancellor of Durham University, led the ceremony at Stockton Sixth Form College, on Friday. The two-storey extension links to the maths and English
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New keeper for Hebburn
Hebburn manager Paul Bennett has continued to strengthen his squad by signing keeper Chris Bannon from West Allotment. Bennett knows about Bannon from his own West Allotment days, and said: "He's a fantastic addition to our squad. He has played for me
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Women found with drug stash
TWO women caught with thousands of pounds-worth of a drug in their home have walked free - partly because the case has taken so long to reach court. Weeks after it was made illegal last year, a stash of mephedrone was found in a safe when police raided
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Young citizens sign up for national service
TEENAGERS can sign up for 100 places left on a 21st Century version of National Service. Teesside is one of 12 pilot areas across the country, and the only one in the region, chosen to launch the National Citizen Service (NCS). Already, 900 16
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Police chief in cable call
A POLICE chief is warning of the dangers of stealing electrical cable following a series of incidents. Chief Inspector Mick Williams said he is concerned that "people feel so little about their lives that they would dice with death" by tampering with
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Durham v Yorkshire: Colly's back
PAUL Collingwood is back. After failing to slog his way into form in the Twenty20 competition he utilised the less frenetic setting of a four-day game to help Durham build a healthy lead against Yorkshire. That might not have been the case
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Holding court
Wimbledon (BBC1, 1.45pm) Four Of A Kind (ITV1, 9pm) Treasures Of Heaven (BBC4, 9pm) Game Of Thrones (Sky Atlantic, 9pm) THE 125th All England Lawn Tennis Championships start today and, love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that Wimbledon remains
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Crash biker in stable condition
MORE details have emerged of a smash after which a motorcyclist had to be airlifted to hospital on Sunday. The accident happened at Scotch Corner at around 11.40am as a 52-year-old man from Northumberland was riding his orange Suzuki motorcycle around
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June 20, 2011
LIFE AT CONSETT (1940s) Consett, the town of iron and steel and coal, Men laboured long and hard, some drew the dole, Others, the jobless, begged their daily bread, Men without hope wishing they were dead. A war was on, the
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Canny weather for quoits!
Cockfield Quoits Club held their annual ‘open day’ yesterday and after John - Dolly - Dalton promised us there would be no rain, the inevitable happened! The rain didn’t dampen the competition though and twenty four people entered for prize money
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Cricket to the letter
Harry Mead is bowled over by an amusing collection of cricket letters to The Daily Telegraph. BACK in August 1946, EL Normanton, an RAF Flying Officer, wrote to The Daily Telegraph suggesting “wise and enterprising changes” to first-class cricket
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Backward step on the sports desk
AS cock-ups go, it will probably go down as one of the most bizarre I’ve encountered – and a definite backward step in the paper’s sports coverage. I turned to the sports pages last Friday morning and couldn’t believe what I saw. The report of the
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Mrs Thatcher
THE immoral, irresponsible culture and values promoted by Liberals in the Sixties were instrumental in creating a culture of single mothers and absent fathers. It helped lay the foundation for the drug culture which is behind much of today’s crime
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Sporting enigma
I ENJOYED an interesting exercise in mental agility this deciphering your code written report in last Friday’s Northern Echo (June 17) on the Notts vs Durham limited overs cricket match. Luckily, previous military training came to my assistance
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Confusing Coronation Street
AS much as I like Coronation Street, well it’s the only soap I really watch, I think the writers have gone a bit gaga with the John Stape ending. I found his storylines very confusing, to say the least, and as for his ending, it appears to be
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RSPCA appeal
THE RSPCA is writing to ask for urgent support to encourage your local MP to attend a debate and vote for a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses on Thursday, June 23. A backbench debate at the House of Commons will take place to raise this
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Lay off HRH
REGARDING Keith Dewison’s letter about Prince Philip’s 90th birthday (HAS, June 6). Anyone who reaches the age of 90 is worthy of congratulations. Prince Philip has made me laugh over the years with many witty or simply dry remarks and observations
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Publicity
IT really was a mistake to write a letter about the self-publicising egotistic and depressingly unfunny Christopher Wardell. As Mr Wardell said in his “hilarious” missive of June 13, I have given him more publicity. I promise not to do it again
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Consultation period drags on as countless residents object to 925 home development
THE CONSULTATION period rumbles on for controversial plans to build nearly 1,000 homes next to a quiet village. Plans for the Sowerby Gateway project in Sowerby, near Thirsk have provoked an unprecedented amount of objections from residents
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Patient care
IT is always a concern to see and hear reports of ill-treatment of patients whether in the NHS or the private sector. The fate of vulnerable people should never be left to chance – but sometimes it is. Patient care must always be the priority.
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Appeal for witnesses after pub disturbance
Police are appealing for information following an assault after a group of men were asked to leave a pub. The incident occurred at 11.50pm on Thursday, June 16, in Helmsley market place, in North Yorkshire, after several men were asked to leave the Royal
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Mobile matters
IS Hurworth at the outer reaches of the universe? With the mobile phone signal we have, you would think that we must be. I used to use Virgin Mobile. The service was not great but you could live with it. However, since the merger of Orange and
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Tony Blair
IT beggars belief that Tony Blair, the man who paved the way for Gordon Brown to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, and denied us the promised right to a vote on it, now suggests that elections should be held to appoint an EU president. Does he not realise
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Respect
I HAVE a lot of respect for pensioners, but I now know why they probably do not get much respect from others. While parked up in the car park at the back of Cockerton shops in Darlington, I noticed that the dark blue Suzuki parked beside me
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Scenes that still shock
TWENTY years might have passed since Albert Dryden killed council planning executive Harry Collinson in cold blood, but the images from June 20, 1991, have lost none of their power to shock. In front of a television crew from BBC Look North, and
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Food safety classes for school children
SAFETY experts have gone back to the classroom to help more than 90 students understand the rights and wrongs of food hygiene.. So far young people studying food technology at two secondary schools – in Northallerton and Easingwold – have received lessons
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Lightbulb recycling scheme launched
A NEW green scheme to recycle low-energy light bulbs has been launched in the Richmond area. Hambleton and Richmondshire district councils have joined forces with volunteers from Transition Richmond to set up a trial bank to collect used bulbs. And
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Ashes to ashes
If you go down to the woods in the future, you might get a real surprise. Barry Nelson considers the rise of woodland burials. A GREEN revolution in the way in which we dispose of our loved ones’ bodies is gaining popularity. Since the first woodland
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Libraries prepare for summer reading challenge
YOUNG readers are to be encouraged to pick up a book this summer as part of a circus-themed reading challenge. Libraries across North Yorkshire will be decked out in circus decorations as children aged between four and 11 are challenged to read six books
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Rain hinders Durham progress
WITH only 53 overs bowled on the first two days and more showers forecast, Durham are unlikely to be able to ram home the advantage they gained against Yorkshire yesterday. Having won the toss for the eighth time in nine championship games,
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Forest prepares for weekend of concerts
THOUSANDS of music fans are set to descend on a forest clearing this weekend for two gigs featuring some of the biggest stars of the Eighties. Dalby Forest, near Pickering, North Yorkshire, will host Scottish rockers Simple Minds on Friday night, before
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Skipper seals victory for Percy Main at Tynedale
IN THE Dukes NEPL only three games started, and even then it was only for a short time, with the match at Tynemouth easily the longest with 34 overs of play. Visitors Hetton Lyons made 104-2 in that time, recovering from 23-2 through an unbroken
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Richmondshire closing in
IT WAS a case of being in the right place at the right time as Richmondshire made up significant ground on leaders Hartlepool in their quest to win only their second championship. With all of the other title contenders badly affected by the weather
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Church volunteers take part in town clean up
A GROUP of church volunteers have spent a weekend carrying out small acts to help their local community. Members of Richmond Pentecostal Church, based in the Zetland Christian Centre, on Victoria Road, spent two days cleaning graffiti, litter picking
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Policing sex offenders
IT will soon be two years since the killing of North-East student Ashleigh Hall shocked people across the country. And the inadequacies of the way her killer was monitored by the authorities are still being investigated. The Independent
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Cowper ready for Trophy challenge
AMONG a highly impressive field of promising international names at South Moor Golf Club in four weeks time will be a young man from Darlington intent on taking his profile to a new level. Joe Cowper is already well known in golfing circles in
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First award for Rathband charity
A CHARITY set up by the policeman blasted by Raoul Moat has helped its first injured emergency services worker. PC David Rathband, who was blinded when Moat went on the rampage last summer, handed over a cheque worth £2,500 to maimed paramedic John Eames
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Longhirst Hall proving a haven for North-East golfers
WITH the arrival of the no-expense-spared Close House on the North-East golf scene, another relative newcomer in Northumberland has good reason to be grateful for pitching its market below the top level. Close House, in the Tyne Valley, seems
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'If I'd known what I know now, maybe I wouldn't have tried it'
BBC Football League Show reporter and broadcaster Mark Clemmit has conquered Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Now back home on Teesside, he tells of the difficulties he encountered. BEFORE the main climb, we had a practice
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Durham v Yorkshire: Evenly poised
GORDON Muchall sped to his seventh championship half-century of the season off only 40 balls against Yorkshire today, only to depart for 55. Durham were 95 for four at lunch in reply 185, having also lost openers Michael Di Venuto and Will
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Man attacked with broken bottles
A MAN needed hospital treatment after being stabbed with broken bottles following a night out. The 21-year-old victim was attacked at around 2am on Saturday on Kimberley Street in Hartlepool. He was getting out of a taxi after returning from a night
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Arsenal yet to make approach for Barton
NEWCASTLE UNITED have still not received a single phone call from any of the clubs credited with an interest in Joey Barton after it emerged Arsenal are considering a move for the player. The Magpies, who made their third signing of the
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Bruce will stay in hunt for Welbeck
STEVE BRUCE will make a late summer call to Sir Alex Ferguson in the hope of persuading Manchester United to allow Danny Welbeck to rejoin Sunderland. Welbeck indicated over the weekend that Ferguson has told him he will be a prominent member
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Swansea tracking Lita and Emnes
SWANSEA CITY are still tracking two of Middlesbrough's forwards and are hopeful that manager Tony Mowbray will have to sell one of them. The Premier League new-boys have money to spend following promotion to the top-flight but will not gamble
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Scheme aims to cut congestion
A PILOT scheme aimed at cutting congestion, pollution and journey times in a busy city suburb will come into force later this week. Durham County Council highways chiefs have drawn up plans aimed at improving peak time traffic flow through the Aykley
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Neal extends lead at top
MATT Neal will have been the happiest as he left Croft Circuit yesterday, but the smiles were spread around the pits after a day of high octane action. The Honda Racing Team driver extended his lead at the top of the Dunlop MSA British Touring
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Murray facing tough Wimbledon test
WITH Wimbledon fortnight starting this morning, let's address the obvious issue straight away. Can Andy Murray win at the All England Club? Yes. Will he? Probably not. But that's more a reflection of the strength of the players he's up against
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Vintage vehicles tackle Beamish Run
VINTAGE vehicles were literally up in the clouds as they tackled an annual endurance run amid un-seasonally damp conditions yesterday. The Beamish Run, a recreation of pre-war reliability rallies over rural roads round the region, takes place
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Boxer to fight as Spartan warrior
A BOXER who lost his professional license due to a brain injury will throw his weight behind a charity when he steps through the ropes for the first time in four years. Francis Jones, who has attracted national attention with his Sparta security
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Hero soldier killed in Afghanistan
MOVING tributes were last night being paid to a heroic soldier from the region who was killed in Afghanistan while trying to rescue comrades in a bombed vehicle. Craftsman Andrew Found, a married father-of-two, died in an explosion while
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US equity group considers Rock bid
AN American private equity group criticised for its involvement with a troubled care home company is considering a £1bn bid for nationalised lender Northern Rock. Blackstone, headed by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, is hoping for a repeat of its successful
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Still haunted by the day I saw a man killed in cold blood
The cold-blooded murder of Harry Collinson by Albert Dryden in front of the region's media shocked the nation. Reporter Mark Summers was there to witness the events unfold and today, on the 20th anniversary of the shooting, he relives the ordeal
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North-East suppliers invited to bid for Norwegian power contracts
A NORWEGIAN power plant builder is offering North-East businesses the chance to bid for millions of pounds-worth of supply chain contracts. Rainpower ASA, formerly part of the GE Group, has won orders to build hydroelectric power facilities in its homeland
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Planning officer murder "could have been avoided", says brother
THE death of a planning officer who was gunned down while enforcing the demolition of an illegally built bungalow could have been avoided, his family have said. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Harry Collinson, who was murdered
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Life-savers recognised for woman's rescue
A POLICE officer and a nurse are set to be recognised after their quick-thinking and actions saved a woman's life in a dramatic episode last year. PC Dave Cuthbertson and nurse Suzanne Arnott will be honoured today by the Royal Humane Society
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Notorious killer bids to clear name
ONE of two men convicted of the notorious "one armed bandit" killing has put up a reward in a deathbed bid to try to clear his name. Michael Luvaglio has offered 10,000 to anyone offering information to help clear him of the 1967 shooting of
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Director hoping to finish war documentary
A DIRECTOR is hoping to raise the final 3,700 to complete an epic Band of Brothers-style documentary on the untold story of a Second World War hero. Peter King and his team are ready to film the final scenes of Above and Beyond: The Craftsman
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Great grandmother becomes internet sensation
A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER has become an overnight internet sensation after securing her first acting job at the age of 82. Jean Jones has been watched on video clip site YouTube more than 500,000 times after starring in budget supermarket Aldis tea
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Pre season friendly update
Here's the latest list of pre-season friendlies, which start in less than a fortnight's time! If you want to add any fixtures or change any, then just contact Ray Simpson in the usual manner. Pre season friendlies Tuesday June 28th Erie
