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Co-operative legal services
The Co-op is going to offer family law legal services as soon as it can obtain the necessary licence from the SRA. Its recent press release suggested that it would be looking to recruit lots of family lawyers as a result. “Is it good news
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Community raises £125,000 to fund hydro-electric scheme
A community hydro-electric scheme is to go ahead after it raised £125,000 in three months from a share issue which gave people the chance to back renewable energy. Esk Valley Community Energy Group aims to establish a small-scale hydro-electric turbine
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Beauty spot road closed to general traffic
A ROAD through one of England’s most scenic valleys has been permanently closed to traffic in a bid to restore its tranquility. The Forestry Commission said only local residents and tourists holidaying at homes in the area would be able to use the three-mile
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Queen of Spades, Opera North, Newcastle Theatre Royal
A capacity audience at Newcastle Theatre Royal was transported back in time to the gambling dens and court of Tsarist Russia by Opera North’s lavish production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. A full-blooded story of risk-taking, love, avarice
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Madama Butterfly, Opera North, Newcastle Theatre Royal
Opera North's production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly held an audience at Newcastle Theatre Royal transfixed throughout, with riveting performances from a stellar cast. Noah Stewart, cutting a dashing figure in his white naval uniform as Lieutenant
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Hartlepool teenager robbed schoolboy footballers in park
A ROBBERY suspect caught hiding in a derelict building told police he was there to take photographs of the basement - but had no camera. Daniel McLean's laughable explanation was branded "spurious" and "rather strange" when he appeared in court
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Police seek witnesses to butcher's knife attack in Seaburn, Sunderland
POLICE have appealed for witnesses to what appears to have been an attack with a large butcher’s knife on a teenager at a skate park. Officers attended the park, near Morrisons supermarket, on Whitburn Road, Seaburn, Sunderland, following a report that
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Church warden's epic fundraiser
A CHURCH warden has raised £3,200 for an 800-year-old chapel that stands in a cow field by walking 490 miles across the Pyrenees. Joanne Aston, of Over Silton, near Thirsk, said she encountered a heatwave and a week-long flea attack as she walked the
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Volunteers start Transylvania mission
FIVE volunteers have travelled to Romania to distribute a lorry-load of aid to poverty-stricken people. The New Life for Romania team from New Life Baptist Church, in Northallerton, arrived in the Transylvania area of the country on Saturday after collecting
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Army brigade to remain in York
AN ARMY brigade which provides emergency firefighting cover across North Yorkshire and the North-East has been told it will remain based in York. The announcement by Minister for the Armed Forces Nick Harvey follows proposals to move the 15 (North East
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Doctor watched porn and viewed images of beheading between appointments, GMC told
Confidential patient records may have been accessed after a shamed doctor watched pornography and images of beheading between appointments, watchdogs have ruled. Dr Michael Reynolds Foden accessed internet pages to look at images of “mutilation” at
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Cockfield to Australia and back... Part 2. By Viv Longstaff.
Standing on top of Sydney Harbour Bridge, yes we climbed right to the top, Caroline told me that when she emigrated to Australia in 1980, the bridge and harbour were the first sights of Australia she had from the aeroplane window and she fell in love
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Shock result of the day for Chester
Chester-le-Street produced the shock result of the day when they thumped Hebburn 4-0 at Chester Moor, their best win yet under manager Anth Smith. Teenager Callum Patton enhanced his growing reputation by scoring twice to give him four goals in his last
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Hawkins scores first Bishops hat trick at new ground
Dan Hawkins scored the first ever hat trick by a Bishop Auckland player as the home side produced an amazing fightback to give them the points against Penrith. While Hawkins took the goalscoring honours, manager Colin Myers was quick to give Hawkins’
