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Dance for the King, Darlington Arts Centre
BY HIS own admission, Middlesbrough- born musician Paul Donnelly “finds words hard” – but that hardly matters when you can make an instrument sing in such an expressive way as he does. Dance for the King takes its title from one of the many
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Helping ourselves
THE declaration of this newspaper’s support of ShopLocal North Yorkshire seems a obvious thing to do. We live in difficult times and it makes sense to do business locally to mitigate the most damaging aspects of this recession. Thankfully, our High
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Bell’s on the button as motorcycle championships kick off at Croft
CHESTER-LE-STREET motorcycle racer Dave Bell was in scintillating form when the opening rounds of the North East Motorcycle Racing Club’s championships took place at Croft Circuit last weekend. Aboard the 650cc Kawasaki, Bell took a hat-trick
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NFU’s Darlington teams move to pastures new
THE director general of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has made a nostalgic trip back to Darlington. Richard Macdonald officially opened the new NFU and NFU Mutual offices in the former Paton and Baldwin’s wool factory on the town’s Lingfield
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St Matthew Passion, Ripon Cathedral
MUSIC lovers from all over the county packed the cathedral to hear one of Bach’s greatest and best-loved works. The St Matthew Passion is intensely dramatic and demanding. Bach asks for two choirs and two orchestras, and wrote large-scale
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Land training body marks first year
A TRAINING body which focuses on the farming, forestry and horticultural sectors is celebrating a successful first year. LandSkills in Yorkshire and Humber has spent over £360,000 helping 870 people improve their skills on more than 1400 training
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Beef production heading for ‘lowest-ever output’
UK BEEF production could plunge to its lowest level since records began, the National Beef Association (NBA) has warned. It believes it will sink faster and further after reductions – already recorded in breeding herd numbers – show up in additional
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Brodsky Quartet & Graeme Danby, Arc, Stockton
A CONCERT organised by Platform welcomed home some of the North-East’s most famous musical exports, the Brodsky String Quartet, which started out as Teesside teenagers as the Cleveland String Quartet, and Consett-born international baritone Graeme
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Take advantage of stewardship schemes
FARMERS are passionate about the countryside. That is the main reason why most of them farm – it is a lifestyle thing, and seldom just about finances. Thus it is sad to read the Government’s latest statistics on farmland bird populations. Although
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Analyst urges firms to prepare for the upturn
DESPITE the current economic climate, business analyst and former professional BMX champion Ian Dixon believes in staying upbeat, upright – and firmly in the saddle. The Richmond-based entrepreneur and founder of Professional Bodies, a people-orientated
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Two views of steel works
THE industrial heartland of Teesside is the inspiration for an exhibition at the Bianco Nero gallery in Stokesley. Two local artists have taken the Corus site at Redcar as the basis for a series of works for the show Steel River. Clare Money studied
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Butcher expands with new partner
A WHOLESALE catering butcher has moved to larger premises following the introduction of a new business partner and investor. Mike Fenwick announced plans to move to bigger premises in Newton Aycliffe at the end of last year. Now TBI Solicitors has
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The smelly truth of the story behind Ramshaw
THE VILLAGE of Ramshaw in Bishop Auckland is one of the contenders for the smelliest in England, at least if we take its name seriously. We refer here not to the second part of the word that leads us back to the Dark Age English word halh –
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Has spring sprung, or is it yet to spring?
ONE of the vexed questions at this time of year is: when does spring truly begin? There are a surprising variety of answers and I am not sure about the reason for this. It might be associated with the area in which we live, ie north or south
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Law Society’s hospice gift
THE Tees Valley Law Society raised £1,795 for Teesside Hospice at its annual dinner at Hardwick Hall near Sedgefield. Simon Catterall, society president, presented the cheque to Maureen Thompson, chief executive of Teesside Hospice at Mincoff
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Rural business feeling better than average
A NEW survey found confidence in the rural economy was much higher than in the general economy. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) this week published its second set of results from its Rural Economy Indicator (REI) which samples
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Tentative signs of confidence in region
NORTH-EAST firms are fighting hard against the recession but need positive Government action in this month’s Budget to speed recovery. Figures from the 4,000 member North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC), show more companies were starting to achieve
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Gargeny provide highlight
MARCH was a rather quiet month for local birdwatchers, although there were one or two highlights. Pick of the sightings was a flock of five garganey at Nosterfield. This lovely “summer duck” is normally a scarce visitor and this was
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A real life drama so much better than the soaps
SPECTATOR’S colleague missed the TV documentary about Milners of Leyburn when it was shown on one of the remoter channels towards the end of last year, but was happily switched on when The Department Store arrived as a new series to BBC 2 on Tuesday
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Youngsters given rare chance to learn the ropes at Hornby
PONY racing comes under starter’s orders tomorrow at Bedale point to point at Hornby Castle tomorrow. For the first time at this meeting, three Point-to-Point Pony Races for 13.2 and 14.2 and under will be held over a distance of 4 and 6f before
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Flying start for new Town manager Fanning
Northern League: Ryton 5 Northallerton Town 2 NEW manager Mark Fanning got his Northallerton Town career off to a flying start with a superb 2-1 away victory over Morpeth Town in midweek. And what a spirited, determined, positive performance it
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April 10, 2009
From this newspaper 100 years ago The steamship Dagenham, of West Hartlepool, with 2,000 tons of coal, for St Malo, struck a reef three miles off Guernsey on Thursday evening, and will probably slide off and founder. All hands are safe. From
