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In October 1986, these young nurses had just completed their training at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, and had been honoured at the hospital’s annual award presentations for their achievement – a 100 per cent pass rate for the year group. Of that class of ’86, how many are still at the hospital or work at other hospitals in the area? Let us know at From the Archive at the email address: dst@nne.co.uk

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The adverts featured below appeared in the Darlington and Stockton Times in 1963

FROM this newspaper 150 years ago

Middlesbrough Court. Stealing Fireworks. – Matthew Preston and Samuel Haw, two lads, each aged about thirteen years, were charged with stealing a quantity of fireworks, belonging to Henry Laverick. It was stated that prosecutor had received on Wednesday, a lot of fireworks, which, when compared with the invoice on Saturday, he discovered were wanting.

No other dealer in the town had fireworks of a particular kind which were found in the possession of the prisoners, and agreed with his sample. – Sgt. Thorpe found the two prisoners letting off crackers. Another lad, who was playing with them made off and escaped. Haw said another boy gave him the crackers, Preston said Haw gave him some squibs to let off. It was stated that Haw was a very bad lad. Preston was committed for 28 days, and Haw fined 10s or 14 days imprisonment.

From this newspaper 100 years ago

Yesterday afternoon, Dr R D Smedley, assistant county medical officer for Durham, gave a lecture on “Prevention of Consumption” in the Co-operative Hall, Darlington.

The Mayor (Ald W J Stewart), who presided in the unavoidable absence of Mr C W Starmer, remarked that last year no less than 50,000 persons died in England, Ireland and Wales from tuberculosis. There was no doubt, he said, that tuberculosis could to a great extent be prevented. A striking statement was made some time ago that in England and Wales no less than 60,000 children in elementary schools were suffering from consumption in one form or another.

When they considered the number of deaths that occurred he thought it was high time to try and stamp out the disease. It was all very well for the Sanitary Committee of the Town Council to spend money in coping with it, but if the residents of the town would assist the authorities they could do a great deal more. Dr Smedley said that in consumption they were not dealing simply with a medical or public health problem, It was also a social and economic problem.

From this newspaper 50 years ago

Snowy, the large white rabbit, was all set for a night out in Thirsk when PC Dave Gooderham, on his night-shift beat of the cobble-stoned square, spotted him in the early hours of Wednesday.

Snowy was hopping quietly along Millgate towards the town centre when PC Gooderham gave chase.

Though he showed a clean pair of heels to start with, the long arm of the law eventually caught up with him and gently but firmly Snowy was placed under “arrest.” He spent the rest of the night and most of the day under an upturned wastepaper basket in Thirsk Police Station. “He had plenty of time to cool his heels, but we kept an eye on him all the time. We were determined that this was one white rabbit that was not going to disappear as mysteriously as it appeared,” said Insp.

Eric Dorsey. On Wednesday night, Snowy – “sex unknown” – was safely back with his eight-year-old master, David Spence, of The Green, Thirsk. He bought him only a few days previously, and was obviously out for his last fling before being groomed for success in local fur and feather shows.