News
N-E MP's Bill clears Commons
8:16pm today
ONE of the region's MPs was celebrating last night after her Bill to press for faster help for children with special educational needs cleared the Commons.
Youths attacked Asian shop assistant, court told
7:20pm today
FOUR youths took part in a "disgraceful" assault on an Asian shop assistant who came out of the premises to aid a customer.
Teenager who got 15-year-old girl pregnant is spared jail
4:47pm today
A TEENAGER who got a 15-year-old girl pregnant has been spared a jail sentence.
Sport
Plato confident of closing the gap
5:32pm today
JASON Plato is confident he can close the gap on HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship leader Fabrizio Giovnardi in the next round of races at Thruxton this weekend.
Sidebottom strikes as England work hard for wickets
12:58pm today
RYAN Sidebottom claimed the first breakthrough as England were made to wait for wickets by a stubborn New Zealand at Lords.
 | Darren plays fast and loose at Indy
9:40am today
RACING driver Darren Manning was born in North Yorkshire, but now lives in the USA where he races in the IndyCar series. In the second of a series of columns, he writes exclusively for The Northern Echo website as he prepares to take part in one of the world's most famous motorsports events.
"WE ended up waving off our first attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on Pole Day last Saturday. |
| Leader | Business News |
Postscript 8:27am today
It was announced this week 37 Post Offices across the
region will close between July and September. Owen
Amos visited one of them, in Simpasture, Newton
Aycliffe, to see what will be lost
CHERYL Clark's Post Office name badge
is clipped - the wrong way round - to a
grey teddy bear behind the counter. | Bradford and Bingley asks for £300m 8:24am today
MORTGAGE bank Bradford and Bingley yesterday
asked shareholders for £300m in a bid
to bolster its balance sheet. |
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Can Gordon turn the tide? 9:30am Thu 15 May 08
As rumours of a challenge to Gordon Browns leadership
begin to circulate, Ashok Kumar explains why he thinks
Mr Brown is the right man to take the Labour Party into the
next General Election
IT IS almost a fortnight since the political
earthquake of the disastrous local election
results shook the foundations of the Labour
Party. Now that the dust has settled, Labour
members and activists like myself have had the
opportunity to reflect. | ‘Involve people to address stem cell concerns’ 8:23am today
ALL efforts should be made to
keep the public involved in
biotechnology developments to
allay concerns, a panel of North-
East experts has warned. |
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