The Northern Echo back issues from September 2004:
Heart test plea after death of children
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE family of a teenage brother and sister who died in almostidentical swimming pool tragedies has called for greater awareness ofa rare heart condition thought to have caused their deaths. Daniel and Anne-Marie Readshaw were both 13 when they collapsedand died without warning two ...
Man drowns in river despite friends' desperate rescue bid
Sep 01, 2004; ... A MAN drowned as he attempted to swim across the River Teesyesterday, despite the desperate efforts of two friends to save him. They were unable to reach the man, in his early 20s, and a majoroperation was launched, involving a helicopter and rescue boats . A witness, who asked ...
Friends in desperate bid to save swimmer
Sep 01, 2004; ... A MAN drowned as he attempted to swim across the River Teesyesterday - despite the desperate efforts of two friends to save him. They were unable to reach the man, in his early 20s, and a majoroperation was launched, involving a helicopter and rescue boats . A witness, who ...
Tragic family's heart tests plea after two children die
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE family of a brother and sister who died in almost identicalswimming pool tragedies has called for greater awareness of a rareheart condition thought to have caused their deaths. Daniel and Anne-Marie Readshaw were both 13 when they died withoutwarning two years apart. An ...
Pressure grows on Royal Mail to meet performance targets
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE Royal Mail was last night under increasing pressure to startdelivering the goods as it faced a multi-million pound fine forfailing to meet performance targets. Figures showed that the organisation missed all of its targets inthe first quarter of the financial year, prompting ...
Quest to save old mental hospital wing
Sep 01, 2004; ... A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save the last remaining buildingwhich formed part of what was once Europe's largest mentalinstitution. Much of the former Winterton Hospital at Sedgefield, CountyDurham, has already been developed to make way for housing. One former hospital ...
Senator backs memorial to hero in memory of brother
Sep 01, 2004; ... A CANADIAN senator, whose brother was a member of Second World Warairman Andrew Mynarski's crew, has backed The Northern Echo'sForgotten Hero appeal. William Kelly's brother, Jim, was the last surviving crew memberof the fateful flight from the Royal Canadian Air Force base ...
Changes to health services 'will improve patient care'
Sep 01, 2004; ... SWEEPING changes to local health services in north Durham willcome into effect today. Derwentside Primary Care Trust (PCT) sent out thousands of lettersto patients last week, outlining improvements to its service. From today, the trust is responsible for providing ...
ARTISTS DISPLAY THEIR HOTTEST WORK IN ORCHID HOUSE
Sep 01, 2004 ... ORCHIDS will make way for art as a greenhouse is transformed intoan exhibition hall. Paintings by local artists Sir David Goodall, Kathryn Harrison andLinda Thompson will be on display at Helmsley Walled Garden, inHelmsley, North Yorkshire, from Saturday to Sunday, September ...
Views sought for museum Lottery bid
Sep 01, 2004; ... CONSULTANTS called in to devise a future for the DarlingtonRailway Centre and Museum are asking local people to help. Darlington Borough Council is preparing a bid to the HeritageLottery Fund to help the museum develop, but that bid can only bemade if it is supported by the ...
Martial arts teacher sets up new centre
Sep 01, 2004; ... A MARTIAL arts instructor has set up business in Darlington,transforming an old warehouse unit into an academy. James Cockill moved to the town from Whitby, in North Yorkshire,last year. He has taught martial arts classes at Carmel RC Technology Collegeand The Scotch Corner ...
Glass attack on man may have been race motivated
Sep 01, 2004; ... A MAN was left needing ten staples in a head wound after anunprovoked attack witnessed by his wife. Lenny Anknum had a bottle smashed over his head and was glassed inthe face by a gang of men as he left a pub near Peterlee, CountyDurham. The self-employed plasterer, whose ...
Why age of the train forced village to change its identity
Sep 01, 2004; ... This week Echo Memories travels to Westgate-in-Weardale, searchesfor clues in South Park and pays a return visit to Anty Richards cafe THE world is full of Westgates. There is one near Ponteland, inNorthumberland, another near Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, and a thirdnear King's ...
Detective work reveals true age of park's railway track
Sep 01, 2004; ... LET'S continue along the Quarter Mile Walk in Darlington's SouthPark. We leave the tea pavilion and the bowling greens behind; we'vealready looked at the Fothergill fountain and the aviaries, and we'vefollowed the story of the Crimean cannon from Sebastopol to StPetersburg and ...
Archaeologists hit out over 'savage threat' to landmark
Sep 01, 2004; ... PLANS to expand a quarry near an ancient monument have beenlikened to dropping Stonehenge into the River Avon. The comment comes from archaeologists backing protestors fightingthe expansion of Nosterfield Quarry, close to Thornborough Henges,near Bedale, North ...
LAVENDER FARM IN FULL BLOOM OF HEALTH - DESPITE THE WEATHER
Sep 01, 2004 ... THE recent downpours have not stopped harvest time at a sweetsmelling visitor attraction. The owners of Wolds Way lavender farm, at Wintringham, nearMalton, North Yorkshire, have taken the first colourful crop of thesummer. Already on sale at the farm's shop and tea-room are ...
INTERNATIONALLY-RESPECTED PHOTOGRAPHER REVEALS A LIFETIME BEHIND THE LENS
Sep 01, 2004 ... THE life's work of an 87-yearold amateur photographer is beingdisplayed in an exhibition. Seventy Years Behind the Lens celebrates the work of WallaceThompson, an honorary member of the Photographic Society of America. Mr Thompson, from Eaglescliffe, near Stockton, has also ...
Family touched by support after son dies in asthma attack
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE family of a nine-year-old schoolboy who died after sufferingan asthma attack have been touched by the support they have received. Ruth Fleming, whose son, Jacob, died in May, has thanked everybodywho supported the family through such a difficult time. Jacob lived with his ...
Ex-civil servant expects book ban
Sep 02, 2004 ... FORMER civil servant Steve Moxon believes there was still apossibility the Home Office would seek to ban his critical book onGovernment immigration policy, despite its publication yesterday. Mr Moxon was speaking at the launch of The Great ImmigrationScandal at a Sheffield ...
Drugs case pair jailed
Sep 02, 2004 ... TWO drug smugglers were jailed yesterday for plotting to smuggle126,000-worth of cocaine into the UK stitched into the stomachs oftwo dogs. Gregory Graham, 27, of Harrow, north-west London, was sentenced toten years and mother-of-one Kaye Chapman, 21, also of Harrow, wasgiven ...
47-year age gap no barrier to love
Sep 02, 2004 ... A 64-YEAR-OLD man is planning to marry his 17year-old lover, itemerged yesterday. Brian Williams, of Llay, Wrexham, met teenager Stacey Furneauxafter she and her family moved into the house opposite two years ago. The romance began a year later and now the teenager is believed ...
THOUSANDS GIVE GOLDEN GIRL KELLY A HERO'S WELCOME
Sep 02, 2004 ... DOUBLE Olympic champion Kelly Holmes was cheered by fans yesterdayas she set off on a celebratory tour of her home town. Hundreds of friends and neighbours were waiting to greet the 800and 1,500 metre gold medallist as she left her mother's house inHildenborough, ...
Government plans on speeding 'send out mixed message'
Sep 02, 2004 ... THE Government was yesterday accused by safety groups of allowingmotorists to speed a little bit after it announced plans to bring inreduced penalties for offenders only just over the limit. The graded system would include those caught driving up to 39mphin a 30mph limit getting ...
Doubt cast on dyslexia cause
Sep 02, 2004 ... READING difficulties can be traced to different parts of the brainin Chinese and Western children, scientists in the US said yesterday. In China, dyslexia appears to have a different physical ...
South-West Durham
Sep 02, 2004 ... From Iron Lady to Ironman TERMINAL cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinsonhas announced she is to attempt one of the world's hardest andgruelling challenges - the three quarter Ironman. The challenge in Nice consists of a 4km swim, 120km bike ride anda 30km run. It will take about 11 hours ...
Snow place like home
Sep 01, 2004 ... THE latest arrival at the region's newest museum this week isbeing given a welcome indoor berth after a working lifetime out inthe cold. Locomotion: The National Railway Museum, at Shildon, CountyDurham, took delivery of the NorthEastern Railway Snowplough No 12,believed to be ...
Councils fail to use anti-yob powers
Sep 01, 2004; ... COUNCIL leaders in large parts of the region are spurningcontroversial orders designed to crack down on local louts, newfigures show. Six local authorities in the North-East and a further four inNorth Yorkshire failed to obtain a single anti-social behaviour order(Asbo) in the 12 ...
LAST NIGHT'S TV - Blood, guts and gruesome murder
Sep 01, 2004; ... Messiah 3: The Promise (BBC1) THE latest Messiah gorefest delivered exactly what was bothexpected and required - a catalogue of ingeniously gruesome murders,Ken Stott looking grimfaced and a plot of such baffling complexitythat even Sherlock Holmes would be hard pushed to unravel ...
BACKCHAT
Sep 01, 2004; ... Dear Sharon, WHEN my daughter was 14 and supposedly staying withher friend, she forgot her swimming stuff for her early morningtraining the next day. When I dropped it round I found she wasn't there. Her friend'smother thought they were both at our house. This was before the ...
Worthy winners show the way
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE nicest thing about our medal winners - Kelly Holmes, MatthewPinsent, the men's relay, the cyclists, the sailors and all of them,plus Amir Khan's vast family - was that when they won they looked sohappy. Not ...
Style not sulking after Sven
Sep 01, 2004; ... NANCY Dell'Olio, ex-lover of Sven Goran Eriksson, is apparentlyplanning a massive birthday bash for herself in London, to show thatthere ...
The perils of being single
Sep 01, 2004; ... BEING single is bad for your health. New research by theUniversity of Warwick has shown that once you're over 30, beingsingle is as bad for you as smoking. They blame it on all sorts of things - bad diet, drinking toomuch, working late because there's no one to go home to, lack of ...
Weekends aren't what they used to be
Sep 01, 2004; ... WEEKENDS are not what they were. Thank Goodness. A survey by a London tourist organisation hasrevealed that we're not making the most of our weekends. Too many of us spend the time working, shopping or doing thehousework. And after a few carefree hours on Saturday, we ...
SHARON GRIFFITHS
Sep 01, 2004; ... CAROL Thatcher - daughter of Margaret, sister of Mark - isgenerally assumed to be a good egg, jolly and straightforward. But when she arrived back in this ...
SHARON GRIFFITHS
Sep 01, 2004; ... A PLANE parked in a Herefordshire field while its owners went tolunch, was eaten by a herd of bullocks. Doesn't surprise me. Our first house backed on to a field full of cows, who would lungetheir great heads over the hedge and try and eat anything they could,especially the ...
GADFLY - When it needs spelling out
Sep 01, 2004; ... MUCH heralded, the grotesquely titled Accomodating Brocolli in theCemetary - a bit like Eats, Shoots and Leaves but described as "adelightful compendium rather than a zero tolerance guide" - ispublished tomorrow. Compiled by Vivian Cook, professor of applied linguistics ...
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... SINCE Smith's on Darlington railway station didn't open until 10amon bank holiday Monday - what sort of paper shop is that? - we fellon the ...
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... ANOTHER classic, last week's column kicked about the subject ofseggetty and tacketty boots and the difference between segs andtacks. Mr Pete Winstanley's query over whether "tacketty boots" has anylink to "ticketty-boo" may probably be regarded as frivolous in acolumn as erudite ...
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... SEGS appeal and sex appeal may even have been synonymous, ofcourse. Elizabeth Steele in Staindrop recalls that her school didn'tallow boys to wear such things, but that the lad who delivered theirgroceries sported them with polished pride. Seggitty boots were considered glamorous ....
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... MUSING upon where babies come from, last week's column supposedthat it was only boys who were found beneath gooseberry bushes, andthat little girls were left in parsley beds. Since we've already heard from the ...
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE other matter which greatly concerned last week's column wasthe origin of the phrase "the dogs' bollocks", meaning the very bestand somewhat improbably said to owe its origin to the Meccano set. It's in that connection that we've heard from Alan Chesterton,once in Darlington and ...
GADFLY
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE shop on Durham bus station has a shop not only advising thatcigarettes won't be sold to under 18s but that neither Cafe Rock norarmy cards will be ...
GADFLY - SPELL CHECK
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE ten correct versions are desiccate, ecstasy, millennium,minuscule, liaison, occurrence, pronunciation, questionnaire,embarrass, irresistible. (Accomodating Brocolli in the ...
Joyce Loebl secures 6m tank contract
Sep 01, 2004; ... DEFENCE specialist Joyce Loebl has won a 6m tank fleet contract -one of its biggest deals to date. The company, which is based in Gateshead, has signed the deal withAlvis Vickers, in Newcastle, to provide computerised engine andgearbox controls for Vickers' Challenger 2 tank fleet ...
Minister gives his backing to N-E assembly
Sep 01, 2004; ... THE North-East Assembly would have real powers, a seniorGovernment Minister said during a visit to the region yesterday. Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford toured the region topromote the message that the assembly would control key areas ofpublic policy. Speaking to The ...
Hussey makes move to Riverside
Sep 01, 2004; ... DURHAM coach Martyn Moxon last night declared himself delightedwith the signing of Western Australia batsman Mike Hussey for nextseason. Durham's bid for Hussey was exclusively revealed in Northern EchoSPORT last week and they confirmed yesterday that they had beaten offseveral ...
Each-way weight heavy for Tom Tun
Sep 01, 2004; ... TOM TUN is the each-way banker bet of the day provided he's in theright frame of mind for the 20,000 BASF Handicap at York. Despite significant market support on his penultimate outing inthe Great St Wilfred Handicap, Tom Tun threw the toys out of his pramand was never travelling ...
Consistency is the key for boss Hodgson
Sep 01, 2004; ... DARLINGTON boss David Hodgson last night delivered his verdict onthe season so far - and believes inconsistency has cost his side aplace among the early pacesetters. After six league games Quakers lie 11th in the League Two tableahead of Saturday's visit of leaders Scunthorpe ...
Maccarone leaves the Riverside
Sep 01, 2004; ... MIDDLESBROUGH striker Massimo Maccarone went from despair to joylast night after completing his on-off loan move to Parma The Italianinternational has finally moved back to his homeland after Parmaagreed a season-long loan deal with Boro - hours after the move forthe 24-year-old had ...
Robert is left angry at Robson's dismissal
Sep 01, 2004; ... LAURENT Robert last night revealed that he was "really mad" whenSir Bobby Robson told him he had been sacked as manager of NewcastleUnited. The French midfielder was one of the players Robson gatheredtogether at Newcastle's Benton training ground on Monday to informthem that he ...
Cats pay dear price
Sep 01, 2004; ... STEVE SIDWELL, the Reading midfielder, has been suffering frominsomnia in recent weeks. After Sunderland's latest deflating defeat,however, manager Mick McCarthy might be the one suffering sleeplessnights ahead of their next match in ten days time. It is now just one win in six ...
McCarthy ready for Boyd deal
Sep 01, 2004; ... SUNDERLAND are ready to raid Hartlepool United for promisingstriker Adam Boyd in a bid to fend off competition from Cardiff City. Boyd has become one of the hottest properties in the Coca ColaLeague after grabbing 29 league goals in just 40 starts for Pool. Sunderland manager ...
No Tees-Tyne switch for McClaren
Sep 01, 2004; ... MIDDLESBROUGH boss Steve McClaren has ruled himself out of therunning for the vacant managerial position at NorthEast neighboursNewcastle. The Magpies board met yesterday to weigh up their options in thelight of Monday's decision to sack former boss Sir Bobby ...
Cats pay dearly for sleeping in defence
Sep 01, 2004; ... STEVE SIDWELL, the Reading midfielder, has been suffering frominsomnia in recent weeks. After Sunderland's latest deflating defeat,however, manager Mick McCarthy might be the one suffering sleeplessnights ahead of their next match in ten days time. It is now just one win in six ...
Catalogue of terror attacks
Sep 02, 2004 ... THIS year a string of attacks have been carried out on targets inRussia and Chechnya. They include: FEBRUARY 6: An explosion in a subway car in the Moscow metroduring rush hour kills 41 people. MAY 9: A bomb rips through a stadium in the Chechen capital,Grozny, ...
Horror as school seized by attackers
Sep 02, 2004 ... SUICIDE attackers were last night continuing to hold hundreds ofchildren hostage in Russia's troubled Caucuses region and threateningto kill 50 of them for every gunman "destroyed". The 17 gunmen and women - wearing suicide bomb belts - wereholding more than 400 hostages, including ...
We've got nothing to hide, say racing stars
Sep 02, 2004; ... THE wife of a North Yorkshire racehorse trainer arrested alongwith reigning champion jockey Kieren Fallon in a nationwide policeinvestigation into race fixing said last night: "He is innocent." Middleham trainer Karl Burke was arrested in a dawn raid yesterdaymorning. He was one of ...
Appeal for cancer study participants
Sep 02, 2004 ... AN appeal to find more than 100,000 women to take part in adecades-long study to pinpoint the causes of breast cancer has beenlaunched. The charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the Institute of CancerResearch hope the Breakthrough Generations Study will lead to abetter ...
Blair sets out Labour challenges
Sep 02, 2004 ... IN a speech at Labour's headquarters in Westminster, Tony Blairyesterday set out the key challenges the Government will focus on upto the next general election. The challenges are: Expanding economic and educational opportunity for all. Personalising public ...
Monitoring help call in Sudan crisis report
Sep 02, 2004 ... A UN report yesterday called for a quick increase in theinternational monitoring force in Sudan, saying the government hadnot stopped attacks against civilians or disarmed marauding militiasin the western region of Darfur. The report to the UN Security Council did not mention or ...
Extra charge urged in Iraq abuse probe
Sep 02, 2004 ... PROSECUTORS at a military court have requested an additionalcharge of maltreatment and cruelty against Private Lynndie England inthe Iraqi prisoner abuse case. A hearing in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to determine whether PteEngland should face a full court-martial, has ...
Farmers' harvest hopes
Sep 02, 2004 ... FARMERS will cross their fingers this week in the hope that thebreak in bad weather will last long enough for them to salvage thisyear's harvest, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) said yesterday. After crisis talks with the Department for Environment, Food andRural Affairs (Defra), ...
Trainer's tax trial postponed again
Sep 02, 2004 ... THE trial of a North-East millionaire accused of tax dodging onceagain failed to get started yesterday. Businessman and racehorse trainer Norman Mason, who once trained aGrand National winner, was first accused of charges concerning VAT inNovember 2002. Yesterday, Sunderland ...
The name game
Sep 02, 2004; ... SKY WEBS Viking place-name From Skog village A village near a scrog A woodto you and me Docking place for "SS Bewky"? WORK out the North-East place ...
Event grows near to target entry figures
Sep 02, 2004 ... THE first Durham Horticultural and Craft Show is half way to itstarget number of entries. The event will be at County Hall, Durham, on Saturday and Sunday,September 11 and 12. It replaces the city's annual produce show, which would havecelebrated its 30th anniversary but was ...