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Echo Comment: This abusive culture must be stamped out (The Northern Echo)

MODERN methods have made communication extremely easy. You don't have to go to the inconvenience of buying a stamp to send an email; a few taps of…

So it can’t be regarded as a bit of a laugh. For the good of us all, we do need women to put their heads above the parapet and take up leadership positions, and so society as a whole must be serious about stamping out the abuse. He was sentenced yesterday to a curfew, a tag and rehabilitation which may inconvenience him enough to make him think twice in future.

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Memorial to organ donors launched at University Hospital North ... (The Northern Echo)

Families whose loved ones saved the lives of others after donating their organs in death have gathered to remember them.

So we strongly encourage people to have that difficult conversation with their family – making their wishes known. “These 58 donors have resulted in over 250 people receiving either life-saving or life transforming transplants. Both Nicola’s kidneys and one of her lungs went to people badly in need of them. “The remaining stones are anonymous. “I can’t speak highly enough of the organ donor nurses who were incredibly kind. Paul Forster-Jones chair of the Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust of the Trust’s Organ Donation Committee said: “The memorial honours the 58 people who have donated organs since it first became possible at this hospital in 2010 – each of whom is honoured with an individual stone, around half of which bear the details of the donor and a dedication from their family.

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Teenager dangerous driver from Sedgefield stopped by police stinger (The Northern Echo)

Connor Macleod, 18, was due to be sentenced at Durham Crown Court this week, after admitting charges of dangerous driving and driving without insurance when he ...

An interim driving disqualification was put in place when Macleod admitted the charges last month before the magistrates, who also made him subject of an 8pm to 7am curfew at his home address in The Meadows, Sedgefield. When the case was called into crown court for the scheduled sentencing hearing, Recorder Paul Reid said he was concerned to have read in a recent GP report, forwarded to the court, of the defendant having been referred to a community mental health team. Recorder Reid said the court would require a report over the state of the defendant’s mental health prior to him being sentenced Recorder Reid added: “You must not drive a motor car in the meantime.” “Driving like this in a pursuit puts the public in huge danger.” Addressing the defendant, he told him: “I’ll adjourn for inquiries into your health and mental health and you will remain on bail on the same conditions, on an overnight home curfew." He was said to have been at the wheel of a silver Nissan Navara driven in a dangerous manner on the A689, A177 and Butterwick Road, in the Sedgefield and Fishburn areas, on Monday January 9. A teenager is to be sentenced in the spring for what was described in court as, “an extremely serious case of dangerous driving”. “This is an extremely serious case of appalling dangerous driving without any mention, until now, of a mental health problem. Macleod failed to stop for police on the A689 and drove in excess of 100-miles per hour at one stage in a 30-limit zone, before falling foul of a police-laid 'stinger' tyre deflation device in Trimdon. Connor Macleod, 18, was due to be sentenced at Durham Crown Court this week, after admitting charges of dangerous driving and driving without insurance when he appeared before magistrates in the county on January 10. The crown court was told that the offences which Macleod admitted were committed only a day before his appearance at the magistrates’ court.

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On the trail of the fearsome wild boar of Ferryhill (The Northern Echo)

CHILDREN campaigning to make Ferryhill a stronger community have put up an information board telling how, 800 years ago, crime was cleaned up in…

The Scotts were one of the great families of East Howle with the Dunns being the other – Maureen Jones (nee Dunn) grew up there with grandparents and relatives dotted about the terraces. But those with a little romance in their hearts will say this is a strange story with an echo of the truth at its heart. “My grandmother, Mary Scott, lived at 13, Bell Street on the other side of the line. They will say that the stone cross has nothing to do with the death of a boar but it is either the elevated spot from which pilgrims got their first glimpse of the St Cuthbert’s shrine at Durham or, more boringly, it is just a medieval boundary stone. There’s also an old stone in the town hall which once told the story of the boar out on the clifftop. He knew that it liked to come crashing through the trees on the clifftop at Ferryhill and so there he devised a cunning plan for it.

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