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ON Monday, the A67 slipped quietly back into use more than two years after it was first closed by a landslip. The workmen have cleared the vegetation from the Tees bank between High Coniscliffe and Piercebridge and so travellers driving west along the

I SEE that Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has claimed that his party should treat entrepreneurs as "heroes" and that wealth creators should be valued.This is the same man who supported to the hilt Ed Miliband's class envy campaign

IT’S BEEN a mixed week at Witton Castle Lakes, on the angling front the conditions have been ideal for fishing, although anglers did find the going quite tough with the fish being reluctant to rise. Thanks to a busy last weekend we welcomed a total

THE finalists have been announced for Yorkshire’s Favourite Pub 2015 after a record-breaking year of voting.The final ten will now go head-to-head hoping to be crowned winner at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate on July 14.The competition, run by

A NEW scheme will see people with disabilities and mental health needs trained up to make the perfect cappuccino.North Yorkshire County Council is providing training in barista skills so people with disabilities can increase their opportunities in the

A NEW community hub which will include a cricket pavilion, village hall, bowls club and five new homes has been given the go-ahead.The parish council at Sessay, near Thirsk, submitted the plans for the new and improved multi-use village hall scheme to

Easington MP Grahame Morris, a long-serving member of the Health Select Committee in the last Parliament, is concerned about the future of GP services. He is particularly worried about the impact on places like East Durham. “I am concerned

SUPPORTERS lined the street to cheer home a North-East charity runner as he completed the last few steps of a 505-mile journey. Marc Ellis, from Darlington, set off from Land's End on May 1 and finished his marathon race back to Darlington shortly

THE world's first friction match has been remade as part of an art project in memory of Stockton's greatest inventor.Dr Joe McGinnis, senior science lecturer at Teesside University, has recreated the match which was invented by Stockton High Street druggist

AN investigation is underway after an amateur football club’s ground was burgled for the third time in 18 months.Thieves broke into an outbuilding at Newton Aycliffe Football Club’s ground in Moore Lane, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, sometime between

A MONEY saving scheme which could have saved a cash-strapped council hundreds of thousands of pounds every year has been recommended for refusal.Middlesbrough Council was investigating the possibility of delivering key environmental, property and commercial

THREE Teesside fashion students were invited to present their collections at an inaugural North-East-wide fashion event recently.The students at Cleveland College of Art and Design in Hartlepool scored a big hit at the first ever NE1 Fashion Futures event

STARING into Staindrop churchyard from the stone side of a cottage is a human face with a badly weathered nose. Opposite, over the road, jutting out of a wall is a human limb – perhaps a leg; possibly an arm.For a couple of weeks now, Memories has been

TWO women were hurt in separate road collisions in Darlington this morning. The incidents happened in quick succession, the first on Skerne Park at about 10.30am and the second in Northgate. A Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) helicopter

THREE people were led to safety from a block of flats after a fire in a bed and breakfast in the early hours of this morning. Cleveland Fire Brigade was called to the B&B at the junction of Laurel Street and Borough Road in MIddlesbrough at

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Tipu Sultan are appealing for information about a burned out motorbike that was found the day after the shooting took place. Enquiries are ongoing to establish if the bike, that was found in Washington, was

THE head of a charity is retiring after more than 18 years of dedicated service.Stephen Hallett started working at Christ’s Hospital in Sherburn, near Durham, in 1997. Since then he has pioneered hundreds of charitable projects, raising more than £10m

“LET’S take the kids to a theme park!” Said no parent, ever. We promised our daughter that for her birthday – she’s eight – we would take her to Lightwater Valley on a date that would roughly coincide with her birthday which turned out to be the

AFTER raiding Yorkshire for his third successive signing, Darlington manager Martin Gray has suggested that he will again look away from the North-East when bolstering his squad. Adam Nowakowski joined this week from Harrogate Town, a midfielder

THE Northern Echo’s whimsical headline article, "Over to EU", (Echo, May 28) concerned David Cameron’s visits to European leaders. Learning that the EU membership referendum may be as early as next year was rather worrying. The "No" campaign, aside

A United squad ANTONY SWEENEY: The spirit was brilliant. We still meet up at times each year and there’s never any awkwardness. Everyone knew everything about each other – families, kids, we all socialised.At the time I thought that was the norm in football

FUNDING pledges for the second iconic locomotive to be built in the region in the past 50 years are steaming towards £2 million.Gresley class P2 steam engine Prince of Wales, which will be built in Darlington have passed £1.8 million just 20 months after

NOTE to John Armstrong of Etherley (HAS, May 29) - the election is over, so there is no need for political point-scoring when discussing the proposed Eleven Arches development in Bishop Auckland. He lives far enough from the site for any noise

WE are told the UK has an ageing population and yet practically every sealed item I buy, from milk tops, tins and jars, is made taking only the safety of children into account. I don't have small children in my house anymore and yet I have to buy

A WOMAN called Bahar Mustafa who is a “diversity officer” at Goldsmiths College, in London, recently said that white men should all be killed. Now if that’s not hate speech, I don’t know what is. Unfortunately as we all know, “hate speech”

I AM not surprised to read about the corruption charges brought against members of the FIFA executive when I look at the individuals charged. Each one of them come from countries of the South American continent where bribery and corruption is a

THE Northern Echo’s whimsical headline article, ‘Over to EU’, (Echo, May 28) concerned David Cameron’s visits to European leaders. Learning that the EU membership referendum may be as early as next year was rather worrying. The No campaign, aside

NEWCASTLE UNITED are set to miss out on long-standing transfer target Andre-Pierre Gignac after Turkish side Galatasaray closed in on a £1.8m-a-year deal for the French striker. Gignac will leave Marseille this summer after the Ligue 1 club failed

I APPRECIATE the courteous response by Peter Gibson disagreeing with my letter expressing satisfaction with the result of the Irish referendum on gay marriage, though feel somewhat misrepresented when he suggested that I would ever go along with any

WHILE I appreciate Ben Ord's concerns about the Festival Walk development (HAS, May 29) I do not agree with his understanding of the situation for the following reasons: 1. The Royal Bank of Scotland repossessed the site when the previous owner

In the final instalment of a three-part series looking at how our biggest teams have fared this season, Chief Sports Writer Scott Wilson assesses the 2014-15 campaign from Sunderland’s point of view ANOTHER season, another frantic battle against

WHILE I appreciate Ben Ord's concerns about the Festival Walk development (HAS, May 29), I do not agree with his understanding of the situation for the following reasons: 1. The Royal Bank of Scotland repossessed the site when the previous owner got