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Horden bomb-making grandad pleads for lenient jail sentence

GRANDAD Nicholas Smith today issues a prison-cell plea for compassion after plotting to “burn” his neighbours with a crude napalm bomb.Read

Dorothy Smith of Horden, County Durham, wife of attempted napalm bomber Nicholas (Nick) Smith

North gran vows to stand by bomb-making husband

GUILTY of plotting a napalm bomb attack, the doting family of Nicholas Smith today break their silence to reveal what drove him to terror.Read

Neighbour to the rescue as blaze hits house in Peterlee

A HEROIC neighbour has told of the moment he bravely stormed into a burning house to save an elderly couple.Read

Mum’s horror as sons trapped in runaway car

A MUM watched in horror after her driverless car sped 180ft down a hill after her four-year- old son released the handbrake with him and his toddler brother strapped inside.Read