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Hoping to switch from the counter to catwalk

SHOP assistant Emma Maddison hopes to swap her life selling clothes . . . to making a living modelling them. Read

Pals flee bed bug horror

A SCOTTISH hotel has been dubbed McFawlty Towers after a bust-up over bed bugs led to guests leaving in the middle of the night. Read

Anger at sick web fight videos

TWO sickening videos showing horrific violence on North streets have been posted on the internet, we can reveal. Read

Row as schools take kids’ prints

THOUSANDS of children in North schools are set to be fingerprinted . . . to speed up library and canteen queues. Read

Crooked banker’s awaiting sentence

A FORMER bank manager and financial advisor is facing jail for stealing £100,000 from a business. Read

Top cop hits out at bonus payment

ONE of the region’s chief constables has called for the police bonus system to be scrapped . . . despite receiving a big payment himself. Read

DNA database in the dock

SHOULD DNA samples taken from people who have been arrested but later found innocent continue to be kept on a national database, or destroyed as new proposals suggest? ROBERT WEATHERALL reports . . . Read

Couple’s Crete care home dream in jeopardy

TIME is running out for a couple trying to fulfil a dream inspired by their teenage daughter who died of cancer. Read

Broke pair live in shed at plot

A COUPLE who lost their home after failing to keep up mortgage payments are living in a shed. Read

Wallsend Town collect tokens for kits

THESE young soccer stars have everything they need to storm the league this season . . . except an official strip for their team. Read

A PIONEERING boarding school for overweight and obese children is to open in the Lake District.

The live-in school — the first of its kind in the UK — will take youngsters aged 11 to 18 who are at least nine kilos (20lb) over their ideal weight and who have had dieting problems for a year or more. Read

Anger as Whitley Bay graves deemed unsafe

HEALTH and safety officers have been slammed after more than 100 gravestones in one cemetery were removed from their plinths and part-buried. Read

Easington area’s shock violent crime figures

A POLICE force is launching an investigation after a survey revealed part of its patch is one of the most violent in the country. Read

Nine stars to watch at Beijing 2008

A SUMMER of sport beckons for dozens of North athletes who are competing in the Beijing Olympics and its partner competition, the Paralympics. Read

Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe

Killed North squaddie should have been back home

A NORTH soldier killed in Afghanistan died 24 hours after he should have returned home. Dog handler Lance Coporal Kenneth Rowe was set to leave front line duties fighting the Taliban in the dangerous Helmand province on Wednesday and go home to his family. Read

North sizzles as sun shines

THOUSANDS of North folk embarked on a great escape this weekend as scorching temperatures heralded the arrival of summer. Read

Bus crash in Cumbria injures 19 people

A CRASH involving a bus and a car on one of the region’s busiest roads has left 19 people injured. Read

Summer tale of two cities at Ladies Day and Sunderland Airshow

THOUSANDS flocked to two of the hottest events in the North’s social calendar yesterday, but they were world’s apart when it came to the weather. Read

Terrified boy gets stab threat by text

A BOY has been too terrified to go to school for five months after being sent a menacing text message threatening “you’re going to get stabbed”. Read

Report reveals Low Newton prison has 'catalogue of problems'

A NORTH prison where canoe fraudster Anne Darwin last week began a six-and-a-half year sentence has been slammed for widespread drug abuse, staff shortages and high levels of self-harming among inmates. Read

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