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Woman admits stabbing partner

8:42am Wednesday 17th December 2008

A WOMAN has pleaded guilty to stabbing her partner three times with a kitchen knife during a drunken row.

Veterans lead nation in remembering the dead

First World War veterans, from left, Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108

11:28am Wednesday 12th November 2008

THE nation paused yesterday as three of the last surviving veterans of the First World War laid wreaths to honour their fallen comrades.

The final horror

DEMORALISED: As Britain became the dominant force in the last year of the war, thousands of German troops were taken prisoner

9:47am Tuesday 11th November 2008

1918 was the most awful year of the Great War, but also the year that Britain proved itself the world’s dominant military force, says Peter Hart.

Lest we forget

IN AWE: Phil Tufnell with a replica Sopwith Camel as flown by his grandfather’s squadron

9:19am Monday 10th November 2008

November 11 marks 90 years since the bloody battles of the First World War were brought to an end with the signing of the Armistice.

Thousands pay tribute to dead

COMMEMORATION FOCAL POINT: Dignitaries marching through Durham City yesterday

8:34am Monday 10th November 2008

THOUSANDS of people across the region yesterday paid tribute to the dead of two world wars and the casualties of more recent conflicts.

Cenotaphs unveiled to honour fallen

PAYING TRIBUTE: Bugler Major Jim Barker at the dedication of this new memorial sculpture at St Clare’s Church, Newton Aycliffe

8:30am Monday 10th November 2008

HUNDREDS of residents paid their respects to war heroes past and present as two cenotaphs were unveiled in County Durham.

‘It was 90 years ago, but you can’t forget’

THE LAST TOMMY: Harry Patch, 110, takes part  in yesterday’s parade in Wells, Somerset

8:39am Monday 10th November 2008

Britain’s Last Tommy remembers fallen comrades as nation honours war dead.

Soldiers remember Falklands hero

Major Andrew Roe, Officer Commanding, C Company 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), laying a wreathe at the grave of Capt Hamilton

3:36pm Sunday 9th November 2008

SOLDIERS serving on the Falklands Islands today remembered an SAS officer who was killed in the conflict 26 years ago.

Poignant appeal of the poppy

WE WILL REMEMBER: Kevin Hilliard, of the Royal British Legion, selling poppies on High Row, Darlington

9:55am Saturday 8th November 2008

The poppy appeal is 87 years old and still going strong. Owen Amos spends the day with poppy sellers to see what makes them, and their poppies, so special.


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