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Elf Helpers Needed to assist Father Christmas at Crookhall


Crook Hall in Durham is launching a competition to find two elves to help Father Christmas for an hour on Sunday 6th December.This opportunity has arisenbecause one of the elf team has got to go to Lapland to attend a lecture on Reindeer Handling  that afternoon.
A spokesperson

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Speed cameras challenged thanks to vehicle tracking technology


A driver has successfully challenged a speeding ticket thanks to vehicle tracking technology installed in his van.

711155789 W7kiy M Speed cameras challenged thanks to vehicle tracking technologyGareth Powell was clocked doing 61mph in a 50mph limit on A4174 near Bristol in November last year, while he was working as an employee of MD Building Services Ltd.

Gareth doubted

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Leather business sets its sights on international success


636570828 GCCtk L Leather business sets its sights on international successA father and son leather care business that started in a Whickham garage four years ago is set to create 33 new jobs and expand into new premises thanks to increasing sales all over the world.

Furniture Clinic is bucking the recession trend and planning the recruitment exercise to

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History professionals bid for attention


History is about to go under the hammer at the new look Great North Museum – Hancock.

But it’s not the Newcastle institution’s prized exhibits that are up for grabs – it is all about ideas and a new regional initiative called Teaching History in  Museums and Schools (ThiMaS).

When the museum’s doors close for the day on Tuesday (July 7) history professionals from the museums and education sectors will

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Work underway to stabalise Warkworth


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St.Lawrence, Warkworth.

North East-based construction consultants RNJ has been appointed to work on the restoration of one of Northumberland’s most historically important churches.

The Church of St Lawrence at Warkworth, is undergoing a programme to secure and stabilise the North Wall, repair consequential damage to the interior of the church and prevent further deterioration

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Countess of Wessex opens new Durham school and training college centre


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Countess of Wessex

Excited children at a village primary school welcomed a very special visitor when The Countess of Wessex officially opened the new Bishop Ian Ramsey C of E Primary School building, in Medomsley, near Consett.

After touring the new building she met children and

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Tyneside defence contract improves safety for troops fighting Taliban


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The improved Panther now in action in Afghanistan.

A vital defence contract being carried out on Tyneside will improve equipment safety for British troops fighting the Taliban. The first batches of the new Panther mine-protected command and liaison vehicles are now being shipped

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North East gets £3.85m to tackle youth crime


A £3.85m anti-yobs fund has been allocated to the North East.

The cash will be used to tackle youth crime and help clear-up antisocial behaviour and is part of the Government’s £100m Youth Crime Action Plan (YCAP).

Funds have also been earmarked to make schools and communities safer and provide support for young people and families who want to turn their lives around.

Regionally 11 areas have each been handed £350,000 to implement seven

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Police investigate after family of swans slaughtered


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English Mute Swan with cygnets – Picture Wikipedia. Distributed under GNU Free Documentation License

A family of swans has been found dead in Gateshead.

Police are investigating the possibility that the birds may have been shot.

The bodies of an adult swan and four cygnets were discovered at the

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