30 YEARS AGO.

Schoolgirl plunges viaduct to demolition THORPE Thewles viaduct was blown up by 11-year-old Helen Wilson who said, "I've always wanted to do something like that." Helen brought down a three arch span of the viaduct after volunteering to push the plunger to set off over 100lb of gelignite. It was a kind of dummy run before the remaining 19 arches were blown up in the following June.

More room at new allotment site WARRENBY allotment holders were planning to move to a new site with more garden space for the elderly and the disabled. The move to a different site in the village had been agreed between BSC who owned the land and Langbaurgh Council who ran the allotments.

'Nonsense', says council's Labour leader CLEVELAND Council's Labour minority group leader Councillor Maurice Sutherland said that the Government's White Paper outlining proposals to switch more responsibilities from county councils to district councils was, "a complete nonsense". Cleveland County was abolished in April 1996.

Petrol prices creep up to pounds 1 - a gallon PETROL prices on Cleveland took another step closer to the pounds 1 a gallon mark. Oil companies were poised to put another 4p on a gallon of four star pushing the pump price up to 89p per gallon. ICI said they would follow the lead of the other oil companies.

Heavy rain causes landslip on railway A LANDSLIP at Saltburn's Valley Gardens could cost tens of thousands pounds to correct according to a council engineer. Heavy rain sent mounds of earth and rock crashing down on the miniature railway destroying hopes that it might operate early in the season.

Superstore 'deathknell' to corner shops SOUTH Bank corner shops would be killed off if a superstore was built on the Nelson Street clearance site, it was feared. Leslie Bell of Bells newsagents said: "ASDA will get this land for next to nothing at the expense of traders who have been thrown out of South Bank..