Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England) back issues from October 2006:
Trust's debt praised by PM.
Oct 02, 2006 ... A HEALTH trust has been praised by Prime Minister Tony Blair for slashing massive debts. Mr Blair told the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust it had demonstrated strong leadership and good management. Alan Foster, the trust's director of finance, said the trust is ...
Alcohol bid in balance.
Oct 02, 2006 ... A TAKEAWAY'S proposal to sell alcohol as well as food has provoked a strong reaction from residents. The Thai Pan, in Duke Street, Hartlepool, wanted permission to sell alcohol until midnight, seven days a week. People living nearby objected to the plan saying it ...
Cafe is cooking up a winter warmer.
Oct 02, 2006 ... HELP is at hand for homeless people thanks to a new cafe offering them hot meals. The Hartlepool People's Centre, in Raby Road, is introducing a winter warmer menu at its cafe and it is open to everyone, including the homeless. The cafe, which is funded by New Deal ...
Anger at sudden plans to close nursery.
Oct 02, 2006 ... PARENTS have been left furious after being told their children's nursery is to close. Shocked mums and dads went to pick up their children from the Kiddicare nursery, in Throston Grange Lane, Hartlepool, only to be told it was shutting for good this coming Friday. ...
Success nailed on.
Oct 02, 2006 ... A NAIL technician has proved a cut above the rest by becoming a grand master. Glynis Allen (pictured), who works at Hamilton Salon in Hartlepool's Murray Street, has reached the special status as a nail technician after passing important exams. Glynis, from ...
Flood of worries over rising water.
Oct 02, 2006 ... A COMMUNITY'S worries are continuing over flooding problems which came close to spreading into residents' houses. People in Seaton Carew were left terrified last week as sewage and water rose to within inches of their front doors. Northumbrian Water has since admitted ...
Drums will add steel.
Oct 02, 2006 ... YOUNGSTERS can look forward to long-lasting calypso sounds thanks to a cash donation. St Cuthbert's Primary School in Hartlepool was awarded with a National Lottery grant for [pounds sterling]8,000 to buy a set of steel drums. The school had previously loaned the ...
Tell us your time for run.
Oct 02, 2006 ... HALF-MARATHON heroes from Hartlepool and east Durham were today sent a Great North Run message from the Mail - tell us your time! Were you one of the Great North Runners who completed the half marathon at the weekend? Whether a fun runner or serious athlete, it's a ...
Boy, two, hurt in smash.
Oct 02, 2006 ... A TODDLER was rushed to hospital by his dad after running into the path of a car and breaking his leg. Two-year-old Prince Iqbal was recovering in the University Hospital of Hartlepool today following the collision. The toddler was helping his brother take the ...
All that hard work's gone to the dogs... and the cats.
Oct 02, 2006 ... MUSIC lovers had to come up with an unusual entry fee when they came along to a charity festival - but it was all in a good cause. Tins of dog and cat food were the admission fee at the Hartlepool festival inspired by the promoter's love of animals. The event, at the ...
Bloodied but unbowed.
Oct 02, 2006 ... HOT-STREAK hitman Jon Daly will be fit to lead the line for Hartlepool United in Friday night's trip to Lincoln. The striker grabbed his first senior hat-trick to earn Pools a comfortable 3-0 victory over Wrexham at Victoria Park on Saturday. It made it seven goals in ...
Boys done me proud.
Oct 03, 2006 ... HARTLEPOOL United manager Danny Wilson today admitted he felt sorry for his stars on the sidelines. The Pools boss has turned around the club's fortunes after the early hangover from last season's relegation. Saturday's 3-0 swatting aside of Wrexham gave Pools nine ...
The best way to beat the vandals.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A DETERMINED coach company is forging ahead with expansion plans despite vandals causing [pounds sterling]2,000 of damage. Paul Little, 36, who owns Paul's Travel, is due to take delivery of two new coaches next month, worth an estimated [pounds sterling]40,000. It ...
Meat snatcher caught on CCTV.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A DRUG user who stole 14 packs of meat has been given a suspended prison sentence. Hartlepool man Kevin Zielinski stole [pounds sterling]19.66 of meat from the Co-op, in Stockton Road, in the town - and was caught on CCTV doing it. Lilian Atkinson, prosecuting at ...
Council allays fears over pavilion bar.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A SPORTS pavilion cafe will not be selling alcohol, say council chiefs, after fears were raised by a former councillor. Hartlepool Borough Council has answered claims made by Reuben Atkinson, the former councillor for the Dyke House ward in the town. He says when he ...
Showing pedal power for charity.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A SOLICITOR showed plenty of pedal power to complete a coast-to-coast cycle race in an impressive time. Hartlepool solicitor George Parker-Fuller had not been on a bike since he was 12. But he agreed to take part in the 143-mile cycle race from Whitehaven to ...
Are you a budding Blair?
Oct 03, 2006 ... BUDDING Tony Blairs are being urged to nominate themselves for an important role. The elections to find the next Hartlepool representative on the United Kingdom Youth Parliament take place soon. Young people aged 11 to 18 are being urged to stand for election. ...
Stepping out to pay for their trip.
Oct 03, 2006 ... FUNDRAISING youngsters are making sure their school trip goes ahead - by gathering the money themselves. Pupils from Golden Flatts Primary School in Hartlepool are desperate to go on an exciting two-day educational adventure to York. But money needs to be found to pay ...
Rivals' bids in for water firm.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A BIDDING war looks likely after a water company revealed it has received rival approaches to a [pounds sterling]2.2bn buy-out offer. The Mail reported yesterday how AWG, which owns Hartlepool Water, had been bought by Osprey Acquisitions, a group of companies including the ...
Allotment fire yobs strike again.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A FIRE in which 100 top racing pigeons perished is the third yob-related attack at an allotment site in three months. Hartlepool pensioner Alan Croydon, 75, lost generations of hand-bred birds in the deliberate blaze at Brierton Lane allotments, on Sunday in the town, as ...
'I have to sweep up after the binmen'.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A MAN claims he has had to resort to sweeping his street because binmen are making a mess. But Hartlepool Borough Council hit back, saying refuse collectors take every care when they carry out their work. They also claim a street sweeper cleans the streets after the ...
Getting with the African beat.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A SCHOOL came to life with the sounds of South Africa when some real-life Zulus visited class. The Lions of Zululand, a cultural group from Durban in South Africa, visited English Martyrs Secondary School as part of its International Languages Day celebrations. The ...
Appeal after assault by thugs.
Oct 03, 2006 ... TWO thugs forced a man to the floor and then rifled through his pockets. The 34-year-old Hartlepool man was walking home after a night out in the town centre when he was targeted. As he walked past Stranton's All Saints Church, in Vicarage Gardens, he was approached ...
Four hurt in two-car smash.
Oct 03, 2006 ... A WOMAN had to be cut from her vehicle after a two-car smash. Police are still investigating the crash on Belle Vue Way, Hartlepool, at around 2pm yesterday. It is thought a blue Ford Maverick 4x4 and a black Volkswagen Carrera collided on the road coming into town, ...
Ritchie set to stay at Vale.
Oct 04, 2006 ... EXILED Ritchie Humphreys' loan spell at Port Vale is set to be extended by at least another month. The Hartlepool United playmaker has delighted Valiants manager Martin Foyle during a one month loan deal - which comes to an end after Vale's clash with Rotherham on Sunday - and ...
MP officially opens [pounds sterling]1.1m healthcare centre.
Oct 04, 2006 ... AN MP has cut the ribbon at a new [pounds sterling]1.1m care centre designed to take healthcare into the 21st century. Hartlepool MP Iain Wright was given a tour of the town's new Wynyard Road Primary Care Centre after it opened its doors for the first time yesterday. ...
New scheme to tackle abusers.
Oct 04, 2006 ... VIOLENT men who attack their partners are being urged to get help under a ground-breaking new scheme. Hartlepool men who are caught in a cycle of committing violence against their wives and girlfriends can access the new scheme. The Chrysalis programme, run by North ...
Renewed appeal for missing girl.
Oct 04, 2006 ... POLICE have renewed an appeal for a missing schoolgirl to return home. Hartlepool teenager Charlotte Lord left her town home on Thursday, September 21, and travelled by taxi to a school in Darlington, as previously reported by the Mail. It is believed the ...
Walking tall... and running too.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A WOMAN has made a miracle recovery - less than two years after fearing she would never walk properly again. Hartlepool woman Joanne Attwood was diagnosed with the debilitating illness ME 10 years ago and had an operation on her back in 2004 for prolapsed discs. But ...
Road rage.
Oct 04, 2006 ... l Driver claims he was cut up by white van man l Minutes later he attacks him at garage AN AUDI driver assaulted a white van man in a road rage attack - after claiming the van driver cut him up on the A19. Simon Towell squared up to Brian Nordstrom at Ron ...
Centre ready to be occupied.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A MULTI-MILLION pound logistics centre has been unveiled and is now looking for a tenant. Wynyard 360, built by specialist distribution company HelioSlough at Wynyard Park, is big enough to house six full-size football pitches. More than 50 national property agents ...
Appeal goes out to businesses.
Oct 04, 2006 ... PEOPLE are being urged to make a touching tribute to war heroes this year with a poppy wreath. Poppy Appeal organiser Ian Cameron said the wreaths are becoming more and more popular each year. But he said that businesses, organisations and individuals should order ...
Wheely good response.
Oct 04, 2006 ... CHARITY organisers who appealed for old bikes to help deprived African children have been overwhelmed by the response. Young people in County Durham who issued the appeal have been inundated with kind donations. Around 220 bicycles have been donated to the Easington ...
Family's farewell to a 'most special' woman.
Oct 04, 2006 ... TRIBUTES have poured in from Australia for a loving grandmother who died aged 88. Hartlepool woman Frances Mary Skidmore, who was also known as Eva, passed away in hospital. Her granddaughter Karen Lawrence (nee Stevens) has said a sad farewell from her home in ...
Alleygates plan gets go-ahead.
Oct 04, 2006 ... CONTROVERSIAL plans to erect alleygates behind town streets have been given the go-ahead. Councillors backed the plan - despite opposition from some Hartlepool businesses and the council's own officers. Plans to erect security gates to the back streets behind ...
No-go for traffic calming.
Oct 04, 2006 ... RESIDENTS in a cul-de-sace have lost their campaign to have traffic calming measures installed. Campaigners submitted a petition to Hartlepool Borough Council calling for action to be taken to slow down traffic in Thornbury Close, in the town. But it was decided that ...
School's vandalism outrage.
Oct 04, 2006 ... VANDALS have been slammed after they broke into a primary school and caused hundreds of pounds of damage. Yobs used a saw to destroy a play house at Deaf Hill Primary School and then ripped an outside tap off the wall. Headteacher Paul Lonsdale estimated the damage ...
OAPs put on handbag alert.
Oct 04, 2006 ... ELDERLY people are making themselves targets for muggers by carrying too much in their handbags, it was claimed. Now they are being warned to only carry what is absolutely necessary and take extra precautions with their belongings. An Age Concern survey of 1,800 women ...
Cath takes the plunge to boost home funds.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A DAREDEVIL fundraiser jumped from the skies to raise cash for the elderly people she cares for. Cath Wilson successfully completed a parachute jump and raised more than [pounds sterling]500 for the Seaton Hall Residential Home where she works as a carer. And every ...
Progess on derelict sites impressive.
Oct 04, 2006 ... ABOUT seven or eight months ago, the Mail ran a story on its front page, following a report to my portfolio meeting on derelict buildings in the town. It was a kind of run-down of the top 10 key buildings in Hartlepool that have been sitting empty for some time and how, under ...
Firm invests in new equipment.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A WATER treatment specialist has invested [pounds sterling]150,000 in new plant to help increase production capacity ten-fold. HydroChem Group, based on the Graythorp Industrial Estate, in Tees Road, Hartlepool, employs 12 staff and has a turnover of [pounds sterling]500,000. ...
Renewed appeal for missing girl.
Oct 04, 2006 ... POLICE have renewed an appeal for a missing schoolgirl to return home. Hartlepool teenager Charlotte Lord left her town home on Thursday, September 21, and travelled by taxi to a school in Darlington, as previously reported by the Mail. It is believed the ...
Chemicals bid gets approval.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A COMPANY has been given the go-ahead to increase the amount of hazardous chemicals stored at its site. Baker Petrolite, on Tofts Farm West Industrial Estate, in Brenda Road, Hartlepool, applied to council planning chiefs requesting permission to store more dangerous substances ....
Teddy bears' picnics.
Oct 04, 2006 ... YOUNGSTERS are being invited to a string of teddy bears' picnics at town libraries later this week. The free fun - which is open to Hartlepool youngsters aged under five - has been organised to mark National Bookstart Day on Friday. The event is a celebration of the ...
Figure heading in right direction.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A HOUSING company is owed more than [pounds sterling]500,000 in rent arrears - and now a drive has been launched to claw it back. Although arrears have steadily fallen since Housing Hartlepool took over the running of the town's former council housing stock in 2004, officials ...
Prestigious awards event rewards the work of local charities and groups.
Oct 04, 2006 ... page 15 filla for Wednesday HOSPITAL patients are being invited to give their views on the care they receive. A cross-section of patients admitted to the University Hospital of Hartlepool during the summer will be sent a questionnaire this month. The aim ...
Reading group has plenty to talk about.
Oct 04, 2006 ... BOOKWORMS have enjoyed their first taste of a new reading group. Owton Manor Library, in Wynyard Road, Hartlepool, held its first reading group and visitors have already voted it a winner. The sessions will be held on a monthly basis. Readers can choose a fiction ...
Theatre started off as it was to continue.
Oct 04, 2006 ... IT WAS an event which did not quite receive the headlines it deserved. Thousands of people turned out in Billingham to welcome the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh as they formally opened the town's Forum Theatre. Yet it was an earlier royal appointment further up the ...
'Cowardly' lifebelt yobs are warned.
Oct 04, 2006 ... A HARD-HITTING warning has been issued to the "cowardly" yobs who persist in removing lifebelts. Youths are failing to take heed of a campaign by the Mail to ensure lifebelts are in place for emergency situations. A lifebelt was thrown into the water outside The ...
Be prepared say insurers.
Oct 04, 2006 ... BUSINESSES are urged to make sure they have the right cover following warnings of the highest tides for a quarter of a century. The Environment Agency has warned that the highest tides since 1978, coupled with high winds, are set to hit parts of Britain between Friday and ...
Your chance to hail a champion child.
Oct 04, 2006 ... ENTRIES are flooding in as the search for Hartlepool's unsung young heroes is stepped up. But there's still time to enter the competition to find the town's Children's Champion which has been launched by the Mail in conjunction with Hartlepool City Learning Centre and Hartlepool ...
A lesson to all.
Oct 05, 2006 ... A STUDENT who left school with poor GCSE grades is on the road to success thanks to a bursary from a national fund. Jamie Thomson, a former student at Hartlepool College of Further Education, travelled to the House of Lords to receive the first half of a [pounds sterling],1000 ...
A double first!
Oct 05, 2006 ... A COUPLE - who married after studying at the same business school - are celebrating the arrival of twins. Love blossomed for Gary, 41, and Katie Welch, 37 when their studies on a part-time MBA programme drew to a close. The couple, from Wynyard, on the outskirts of ...
No deal!
Oct 05, 2006 ... DRUG arrests have soared by over 50 per cent in the last year. Hartlepool Police say they are using more officers in the fight against drugs. And they have warned town dealers: "We know who you are and your days are numbered." From September 2004 to August ...
Software warns of speed camera.
Oct 05, 2006 ... A BUSINESSMAN is launching new technology to warn motorists of speed cameras. Chris Colley, of Hartlepool, has developed new computer software that can be downloaded into satellite navigation systems. The technology is updated each day with the location of every ...
Quay staff are looking the part.
Oct 05, 2006 ... STAFF are stepping out in style at a tourist attraction. Quayside guides at the Hartlepool Maritime Experience have been showing off a range of new period costumes. Officers' uniforms, bosun's jackets, Royal Marine coats and winter raincoats have been provided. ...
Salon is in the pink for charity.
Oct 05, 2006 ... HAIRDRESSERS will be thinking pink during a fundraising event. Hartlepool salon Anna Campbell Hairdressing, in Victoria Road, Hartlepool, is holding a charity event called Pink Friday to raise money for a charity helping to beat breast cancer. Staff will be decked out ...
'Don't miss your flu jab'.
Oct 05, 2006 ... PENSIONERS and people in high-risk groups are being urged to book their flu jab in the run-up to winter. Dr Stephen Singleton, regional director of public health, is urging people in Hartlepool and east Durham over 65 and those most at risk to book their free jab. ...
[pounds sterling]70,000 poll plan over health future.
Oct 05, 2006 ... A POLL on the future of health services in Hartlepool could be on the way - costing up to [pounds sterling]70,000 . Council chiefs are planning the move to demonstrate the strength of feeling in town over locally based healthcare. The proposal could see polling ...
Drug pushers taken off the streets as police get tough.
Oct 05, 2006 ... DRUG arrests have soared by over 50 per cent in the last year. Hartlepool Police say they are using more officers in the fight against drugs. And they have warned town dealers: "We know who you are and your days are numbered." From September 2004 to August ...
You've got the kitchen, now get the chef.
Oct 06, 2006 ... A CHEF is serving up a 'first' by launching a new dining experience. Mark Appleton, from Hartlepool, is offering to visit people's homes and act as a personal chef for the evening. Mark was previously head chef at the Ocean Restaurant in Seaton Carew . ...
Able ghost ships clear key hurdle.
Oct 06, 2006 ... A MAN charged with two counts of burglary has had his case sent to crown court. George Leslie Harman, of no fixed address, appeared before Hartlepool Magistrates Court yesterday. Harman is accused of committing ...
Focus on the force.
Oct 06, 2006 ... POLICE procedures will come under the spotlight at a string of public meetings. People in Hartlepool are being encouraged to attend to give their views on how policing is delivered in their area. They can also voice their opinions on what the priorities should be for ...
Plaque marks lives lost at mine.
Oct 06, 2006 ... MINERS who lost their lives in a coastal pit have been commemorated with a special plaque. A remembrance plaque has been installed on the Blackhall pit wheel, in Middle Street, to mark those miners who lost their lives in the village's mine It was unveiled by former ...
Healthy eating goes down a treat.
Oct 06, 2006 ... YOUNGSTERS learned all about the importance of staying healthy - and they did it to a huge audience of parents and grandparents. The 50 nursery children from Golden Flatts Primary School in Hartlepool took part in a healthy eating day as part of this term's topic called All ...