- Towns regeneration contest launched
- Lottery couple defend benefit claim
- House price confidence 'improves'
- Court martial for WikiLeaks soldier
- 1,000 people expected in marches
- Search on for 'cruise-fall' Briton
- New cancer cases 'up 30% by 2030'
- Britain braced for widespread snow
- Five held in Syria embassy protest
- Rhyming plea over library closures
- Widespread snow looms for weekend
- PM picks up shopping on way home
- Met and FBI call 'taped by hackers'
- PM accepts White House invitation
- I feel fantastic, says Robin Gibb
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- Three die in Legionnaires' outbreak
- John Terry loses England captaincy
- Redknapp has 'back to the wall'
- No pub assault charge for Downing
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Double delight for ice hockey star Casey
A SPORTY South Tyneside schoolgirl is skating her way to ice hockey honours.
Homeless put in spotlight as cuts bite
DOZENS of people attended an event highlighting poverty and homelessness as the need for support services among young people in South Tyneside escalates.
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Ian’s business plan is picture perfect
A SOUTH Tyneside photographer is getting in the frame for business success after launching a portrait studio in his home town.
Man accused of attacking pregnant girlfriend
A MAN has appeared in court accused of attacking his six-month-pregnant girlfriend.
Council staff rack up 127 years of ‘sickies’!
SICK staff at South Tyneside Council racked up a staggering 127 years in days off last year, new figures reveal.
Sport
Transfer Rumours update: Friday, February 3
CHELSEA, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Wigan, Everton and Rangers are making the headlines.
Cisse gives Newcastle a lift - before he’s kicked a ball
PAPISS Demba Cisse has already made an impression on his new team-mates at Newcastle United.
Pardew’s ‘tough call’ on Cisse and Ba for Villa clash
ALAN Pardew says he has a “tough call” to make on his Newcastle United team to take on Aston Villa – with Papiss Demba Cisse and Demba Ba pushing for starts at St James’s Park.
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‘I’d have been mad to leave United’ – James Perch
JAMES Perch says he’d have been “mad” to leave Newcastle United in the transfer window.
Obertan’s finally ‘bonded’ with Toon fans – Pardew
GABRIEL Obertan’s first Newcastle United goal is a sign of things to come, according to Alan Pardew.
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Are you our latest Big Night Out winner? video
NOTHING beats a Big Night Out with your mates – and you can win not one but TWO every week with The Shields Gazette.
Lifestyle
Wor Kate loses out to Dan Brown and James Pattison
THE romantic novels of Dame Catherine Cookson have been replaced by thrillers in the list of most-borrowed titles from UK libraries.
Album review: Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
THE 25-year old New Yorker rode an unprecedented wave of hype last year, with her singles, including the stunning Video Games, sending online communities into pandemonium.
Album review: Dan Sartain - Too Tough To Live
THIS is the sixth album by Birmingham, Alabama, native Dan Sartain, who’s best-known for his blues and rockabilly sound.
Album review: Django Django - Django Django
THIS arty quartet are one of the most hotly-tipped new bands of 2012, with this debut arriving three years after their formation.
60s star pulls out of Shields show
SIXTIES star Gerry Marsden has pulled out of a South Tyneside gig.
Community
Would you Adam and Eve this tale?
AS much as we may think we know where we live, places like Shields really do become a different country when you delve into their licensing past.
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Hats the way it was back then!
THIS is a smashing photograph, albeit I find it rather a bitter-sweet one.
The pages of history
THE sense of relief was overwhelming, I remember. I had misplaced my copy of Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier’s classic novel of youthful rite of passage.
What do you know about the Villa boys?
AFTER more than 70 years, it could be the small chap in the front, if he’s still with us, who holds the key to the puzzle of this picture.
A chance to meet old school friends
IF it was possible to have a scratch ‘n’ sniff version of Cookson Country, this page would sizzle with the tang of vinegar and the hot savoury aroma of chips.
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Weather for South Shields
Saturday 04 February 2012
Today
Light sleet showers
Temperature: -1 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: South
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 1 C to 6 C
Wind Speed: 14 mph
Wind direction: West
