Year 10 pupils from Newlands School take the Evening Gazette Crossbar Challenge
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Teenagers from Whinney Banks Youth and Community Centre produced and launched a short film to warn other young people on Teesside of the danger of knives. The film so impressed local MP Ashok Kumar he has now invited the children to London to show it to the Home Office.
The Beatle Maniacs performed five songs from the Let It Be album on top of Middlesbrough's House of Fraser building - 39 years after The Beatles surprised fans with an impromptu gig on top of the Apple Studios building in Saville Row.
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Using the camcorder his wife Margaret got him for their silver wedding anniversary, Sonny Alder filmed his old workplace, chemical site Tees Storage, being torn down to make way for Boro FC's new riverside home.
Click play to view an interview with Lynn Ford, whose son Andrew tragically died in a chip pan fire. This video contains footage from the scene of the fire.
Top funnyman Vic Reeves enjoyed a close shave when he visited Teesside to mark the Learning and Skills Council North-East's first ever apprenticeship week.
Brazilian star Afonso Alves is unveiled at the Riverside Stadium to cheering fans, samba beats and carnival girls.
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Det Insp Andy Greenwood brands Anne Darwin a "compulsive liar" after her trial at Teesside Crown Court. He says asset recovery teams will now go after the cash.
TV celebrity chef James Martin has thrown down a culinary challenge to encourage the thousands of people in the region who have difficulties using numbers and basic maths to brush up on these skills and enrol on a free course.
Lord Puttnam, producer of movies such as Bugsy Malone, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, was a guest at Cleveland College of Art and Design.
This video footage shows John Darwin as he is brought in custody following his reappearance last year. The audio you hear is of a police interview where he confesses how he began the elaborate deception.
A bunch of super sportsmen stepped up to the mark for the Gazette's Crossbar Challenge, and opted to stick to what they know best. As members of Teesside Rugby Union Development Team, that meant ditching our usual football and using a rugby ball instead.
Two passengers were injured when the roof of a double decker bus was almost torn off as it ploughed into a footbridge near Thornaby Railway Station. Video provided by tfm radio.
MEMBERS of Tees Active Sports Academy, along with fitness fanatics on Teesside, are taking advantage of a new Activ8 gym which opened at Thornaby Pavilion this week. Andrew Winspear and Irmina Reithmair from the academy, who both live in Ingleby Barwick, are among those taking advantage of the new facility.
More than 100 people looked on as 50 fire, police and ambulance crews attended a crash scene involving a toxic tanker and a camper van in Teesport. Thankfully the "emergency" was a drill - a once-a-year dress rehearsal to test the skills of those paid to save life and limb.
A TOP young sprinter was pipped to the post by his PE teacher in a charity race... but he's not taking it to heart. For while 14-year-old Richard Hodgson tackled the challenge on foot, his tutor Rod Nielson was behind the wheel of his car!
A shopkeeper was driven by a determination to protect his family when he fought off a robber armed with a crossbow. The masked robber fled empty-handed after the owner chased him from his store.
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