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Fletcher strike not enough to claim Sunderland win
STEVEN FLETCHER'S third goal in two Premier League starts for Sunderland was not enough to secure all the points against Liverpool at the Stadium of Light. After Fletcher had pounced to convert Craig Gardner's cross just before the half hour mark
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Woman cut free from car in Darlington
FIRE FIGHTERS cut a woman from a car in Darlington following a collision. Two vehicles collided on Grange Road shortly before 4pm. A spokeswoman for Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service said a woman was trapped in one of the cars and
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Biker and pillion passenger hurt in Whitby crash
A BIKER and his pillion passenger have been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a crash in North Yorkshire. The motorcycle collided with a car on the A171 Whitby to Guisborough road outside Broadings Farm on the outskirts of Whitby
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Late heartbreak for Pools
HARTLEPOOL UNITED suffered late heartache at Bournemouth after Matt Tubbs denied Neale Cooper’s side three points on the south coast. Simon Walton had given Pools a 73rd minute lead from the spot, but sub Tubbs popped up in the last minute to earn
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Bikey back from the brink with Boro
HE has spent six years playing in the Premier League and Championship and boasts 25 senior international caps for Cameroon. He is not yet 28, and should be in the prime of his footballing life. Yet while players the length and breadth of the country
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Spotlight on volunteering
THE virtues of volunteering will be explored in an event to celebrate UK Older People’s Day on October 4. The Full of Life Darlington event will take place across various town centre venues, including the Market Square and eVOLution on Church Row
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Green revolution in Darlington schools
A GREEN scheme aimed at revolutionising the way schoolchildren engage with the environment has enjoyed a successful first year. In the 12-months since the Co-operative’s Green Schools Revolution programme began, six Darlington schools joined 759
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SATURDAY LIVE SPORT BLOG
Paul Jewell said after losing 2-0 to Middlesbrough: "If we'd come away with a point I'd be disappointed, so to come away with none I'm doubly disappointed." Boro's second was a classic. Steele collected a tame Edwards free-kick, spotted Carayol
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Red lentils, onion, bacon
The number three works wonders in a recipe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tells Diana Pilkington “There are many obvious classics, like ham, egg and chips, or rhubarb, crumble and custard,” he says. “But I wanted to look at it as a way of unlocking
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"Minor explosion and fire" at SSI plant
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a steel plant earlier today after a minor explosion. The incident took place at the SSI BOS plant at Lackenby, on Teesside, shortly after 5am. No-one was hurt and SSI has described it as a "minor explosion and fire
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Great North Run - Final preparation is key, but enjoy the day
Working hard and preparing smart. That's something that everyone involved in sport at any level should have as their baseline and in their blueprint for success. If you're taking part in tomorrow's Great North Run and you've done neither, the day might
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Rutherford enjoys higher profile after Olympic gold
GREG Rutherford has had plenty of people approach him in the wake of his Olympic long jump title – but mainly because they've thought he was the pop star Ed Sheeran. Rutherford secured Great Britain's second athletics gold medal of 'Super Saturday
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Pardew praises back-up Harper
ALAN PARDEW is confident Newcastle United already have the man in their ranks with the experience to make up for the loss of captain Fabricio Coloccini - even if he is not ordinarily first choice. With Coloccini ruled out with a hamstring strain for
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Cattermole’s outlook is a massive boost for O’Neill
MARTIN O'NEILL expects Lee Cattermole to be still treading a fine line long into the future, but the Sunderland manager is desperate for his whole-hearted captain to stay on Wearside for years to come. Cattermole has had problems curbing his over-exuberance
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Pavey tips Dibaba for Great North Run success
JO Pavey is tipping Olympic 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba to make an instant impact when she makes her half-marathon debut in tomorrow's Bupa Great North Run. Dibaba claimed her third Olympic title when she triumphed in London earlier this summer
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Fame and fortune haven't changed friendly Farah
THE reception area of the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead is approximately 50 metres long. Yesterday, it took a man in a fluorescent training top half-an-hour to get from one end of it to the other. Every couple of yards, he was stopped for a picture
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Walton gets a Pools recall
HIS Hartlepool United career to date has been somewhat unflattering Signed in the summer from Plymouth, Simon Walton was expected to add some steel and mobility to the Hartlepool United midfield. Instead, after three disappointments, boss Neale Cooper
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A bridge too far? Rachel wanted to abseil in Middlesbrough, but ended up in Newport
A WOMAN is going farther out of her way for charity than she expected. Rachel Cook, from New Marske , near Redcar , east Cleveland, thought she had signed up to abseil from the top of Middlebrough’s Transporter Bridge. In fact, she realised
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Personal insolvencies across North-East up five-fold
PERSONAL insolvencies in the region have increased fivefold in ten years, figures show. The North-East had the highest individual insolvency rate in the country last year at 35.2 per 10,000, compared to 7.3 in 2001. There were 1,441 personal
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Call for King Richard III to be buried in York
CALLS have been made for the remains of Richard III to be reburied at York Minster. It was revealed earlier this week that what is believed to be the skeleton of the longdead monarch, who has close connections with North Yorkshire, has been discovered
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Bowburn youngster helps in call for vaccinations
A BOY who lost both legs to a serious illness has travelled to 10 Downing Street to help deliver an 18,000-signature petition calling for earlier vaccinations for sufferers. Robbie Jones, five, from Bowburn , near Durham City, also lost the fingertips
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Moors residents vote to ban estates
RESIDENTS have overwhelmingly voted to ban large-scale developments across their parish, in a referendum which could be replicated in thousands of villages across Britain. Hundreds of villagers in Ampleforth, beside the North York Moors, turned
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Teesside prostitute's death remains a mystery
A POST-MORTEM examination has been unable to establish the cause of death of a young prostitute whose body was found ten years after she went missing, an inquest heard. Rachel Wilson’s remains were discovered by a farmer’s son carrying out drainage
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Rammed off road near Bishop Auckland, beaten by robbers and all for £60
TWO robbers used their car to ram a gaming machine collector’s pick-up truck off the road and steal the takings. However, a court heard yesterday that their haul was only £60. Stuart Anthony Penney, 28, and Marc Ryan Skelly, 23, followed their
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South West Durham men with links to English Defence League fined over racist chants after Middlesbrough game
A GROUP of men linked to the English Defence League have been fined for chanting racially motivated abuse after attending a football match. The six, from south-west Durham, were found guilty of shouting highly inflammatory chants at Middlesbrough
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Sherlock homes in on clues left at Loftus by the Romans
AN archaeologist has unearthed a Roman villa close to where he found a buried Saxon princess five years ago. The newly-discovered site, dating back to about 370AD, belonged to an important Romano-British chieftain. Two rooms have already been
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Dogs have their day at Darlington show
PRANCING poodles, dashing dachshunds and tiny terriers have all done their bit to add to the buoyant atmosphere of this year’s Darlington Dog Show. The three-day event, which kicked off yesterday at Newby Hall, near Ripon , saw thousands of dog-lovers
