A planet-hunting satellite has allowed astronomers to see a white dwarf abruptly switching on and off for the first time.White dwarfs are what most stars become after they have burned off the hydrogen that fuels them.They are around the size of the Ear…
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A mum has given birth in the back of a pickup truck on a petrol station forecourt after her daughter decided to make a dramatic entrance into the world.
Stephanie Richardson, 29, gave birth to her third child, Lucy, in the early hours of Friday morning…
The difficulties in getting fuel deliveries through to petrol stations has been well-documented over the past week – but one County Durham garage had a delivery with a difference on Friday, when a baby was born on the forecourt.
Stephanie Richardson, f…
A TEENAGER is in hospital with life threatening injuries after minbus crashed with a pick-up truck this morning.Shortly before 5.15am today, Sunday, October 3, Northumbria Police received a report that, for reasons yet to be established,…
A WOMAN was taken to hospital with neck and back injuries after she was involved in a hit and run crash.Cleveland Police have now issued an appeal for witnesses to the collision involving two vehicles in Stockton, on Wednesday, September 22.
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On the last night of Sarah Everard’s life, she picked up a bottle of wine at a London grocery store and visited a friend before beginning her walk home. It was around 9 p.m. on March 3 and the 33-year-old marketing executive was wrapped in warm laye…
SOMETIME in the autumn of 200 years ago, George Stephenson accosted some farm labourers in a field near the River Tees at Stockton.“Come, give me a spade,” he shouted in his broad Northumbrian accent. “Let it never be said that we haven’t made a beginn…
Vivian Linacre, who has died aged 93, was a property developer who became a vigorous anti-metric campaigner.
Linacre formed the Imperial Weights and Measures Preservation Society to resist the compulsory metrication that was being pressed on the prop…
A HEROIC farmer with a forklift truck helped rescue a stricken motorist.John Holmes responded to a call for help from a man and his dog trapped in a 4×4 vehicle in the middle of the swollen River Browney.
Visibility was poor and the water levels had ri…