23 June 2010
A TERRIFIED woman smashed a window to flee her home following an early morning arson attack. Firebugs sparked the blaze by setting fire to a recycling bag and placing it up against the back uPVC door of the house on York Terrace, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. And when smoke began spilling from the blaze, the [...]
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13 June 2010
Source: The Journal THOUSANDS of pounds worth of caravans were seized and a man arrested after organised crime gangs were targeted in a police raid. A team of 25 officers swooped on the village of Woodstone, Fence Houses, with the aim to break the stolen caravan chain operating in and around Durham. Police entered two caravan park [...]
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12 June 2010
By Georga Spottiswood The dad of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has climbed the highest peaks in the country to raise money to help build a memorial wall. Tom Cuthbertson, whose son Nathan, 19, was killed in a suicide attack in June 2008, tackled Ben Nevis, in Scotland, Scafell Pike, in Cumbria, and Snowdon, in Wales, in [...]
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12 June 2010
Another old coke worker from the early 60,s, Stuart Hunter, 64 yrs old, passed away last year, not many left now. Posted by Norman Sweeting
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21 May 2010
A WOMAN has died after being hit by a reversing refuse van in a busy shopping street. Pedestrian Alison Rodger was hit by a council-owned flatbed van in Front Street, Chester-le-Street shortly after 2pm on Wednesday when the area was crowded with shoppers. The 44-year-old, from Great Lumley, was taken to the University [...]
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21 May 2010
Saturday 5th June 2010 11am – 4pm Durham Wildlife Trust HQ Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve Houghton-Le-Spring Tel: 0191 512 8948 Free Admission Learn about wildlife and have fun, with displays and activities for all ages, including rare breed livestock, birds of prey display, conservation exhibits, face painting, tradition crafts, live music and daning, refershments and much more. FREE – no booking [...]
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04 May 2010
The novels are not consciously auto-biographical. But they certainly gave me a way of writing about a region I knew intimately, for I was born on the Durham coalfield in 1947 and grew up in the mining village of Fencehouses. Also, like Bob Henderson, I am an academic, having worked in universities for over thirty [...]
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01 May 2010
Published Date: 28 April 2010 By Kevin Clark EXCLUSIVE A major hotel, shopping and leisure development could create more than 800 jobs. Roseberry Leisure wants to build an £8.5million 120-bedroom hotel, 90,000sq ft supermarket and 3,000-seater arena at the Rainton Bridge Business Park. The plan would see the Rainton Meadows arena demolished and the supermarket built, with a three or [...]
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28 April 2010
Opening soon in what was Alf Roxby’s barbers shop. Extensive renovation is still going on but it looks as though it will be opening soon. Check out their website www.wildandwonderfulflowers.co.uk Wedding and event florists Special Occasions, Corporate and Floral Tributes Telephone 0191 385 9480 Mobile 07721 497383 Wishing wild and wonderful all the very best.
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