2 DAY IN 2 MINUTES: regional news.Blaze probed ARSON investigators were drafted in yesterday to sift through the remains of a city garage that was ravaged by fire. The move follows a huge blaze at City Road Garage in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley The Ouseburn Valley is a cultural oasis in the East end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Now spanned by three impressive bridges, the Lower Ouseburn was the focal point for the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Newcastle with Coal brought from the town Moor along the on Sunday evening which gutted the building and 10 cars inside. Firefighters spent more than 20 hours dealing with it. Full story: Page 8 Camera trap for Metro gamblers SAFETY cameras have been installed at a Metro crossing to snare snare (snar) a wire loop for removing polyps and tumors by encircling them at the base and closing the loop. snare n. drivers who run the red light. A number of incidents have prompted Nexus to install the equipment at Callerton Parkway crossing in Woolsington, Newcastle. Full story: Page 12 Park skate plan A DECISION will be taken today on an ambitious bid to build two outdoor synthetic ice rinks in a seafront park. Businessman Ronald Scott, of Front Street, Tynemouth, wants to create the rinks in Tynemouth Park which would also be floodlit flood·light n. 1. Artificial light in an intensely bright and broad beam. 2. A unit that produces a beam of intense light; a flood. tr.v. . The rinks would be built on what is now the site of a children's play area. Full story: Page 13 Falling pound a mixed blessing THE plummeting value of the pound is a doubleedged sword for the region's manufacturers, according to North East business leaders. Cheaper export prices are being offset by the rising cost of imported raw materials. Full story: Page 23 |
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