February
Foot-and-mouth disease is discovered; Thirteen people die in the Selby rail crash; Blizzards and floods cause chaos in the region; Fears of job losses at Corus grow.
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Teesside teenage actor Jamie Bell is up against Tom Hanks and Michael Douglas for best actor award in the Baftas for his title role in the film Billy Elliott.
Workers at Blyth Power station leave the premises for the last time as the station closes.
'We won't give up on our men of steel'
Tony Blair urges steelmaker Corus to talk to the Government in a bid to prevent 6,000 job losses.
UK house prices take off again
The UK housing market bursts back into life with the biggest monthly price increase for more than five years.
Chaos hits roads as blizzards sweep in
Heavy snow and blizzards sweep across the North causing traffic chaos with many roads completely blocked and around 3,500 homes in Northumberland without electricity.
Families evacuated as floods sweep back
Sixty families are evacuated by police in Yarm after the River Tees breaks its banks.
Divers find wreck of Campbell's Bluebird
The submerged wreck of Donald Campbell's jet-powered boat Bluebird is found in Lake Coniston 34 years after he was killed.
Snowbound skiers safe and well
Sixty North-East teenagers emerge unscathed from a snowbound Scottish youth hostel which had been cut off for four days.
The Top Hat in Spennymoor, a much-loved nightclub since the 1960s, is to have a £1m transformation.
Brown's Boathouse to be demolished
Developers win permission to bulldoze the historic 200-year-old Brown's Boathouse in Durham City to make way for a bar and restaurant.
The Beatles greatest hits album 1 tops the charts in more countries that any other record ever released.
London's Tower bridge is raised so that record breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur can sail up the Thames to a hero's welcome.
Britain's farming industry is in crisis as an outbreak of the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease is discovered.
Thirteen dead in horrific rail crash
Thirteen people are killed when the 4.45am Intercity passenger train from Newcastle to King's Cross crashes near Selby, North Yorkshire.
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