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  • It comes as new Youth Justice Board figures show that 21 children sustained injuries while being restrained between June last year and this May at Hassockfield secure training centre near Consett, Co Durham, where Adam Rickwood died.

    Youth jails yet to introduce new restraint system six years after deaths Alan Travis 2010

  • βœ’An unhappy tale from Consett, in County Durham, where staff at the Co-operative Funeralcare were assured, following the installation of a large advertising billboard on the side of the funeral home, that "no insensitive adverts" would be placed there.

    Esther Addley's diary 2011

  • This is a nation writing its own suicide note for, while the problem has been resolved here – albeit at ridiculous expense - in a much less publicised case, the finding of these newts is holding back plans to develop opencast mining in a 170 acre site near Consett, County Durham, with a potential yield of over half a million tons of coal.

    The single European newt Richard 2008

  • Now who can this mysterious "Consett Campaigner" be, I wonder?

    David Lindsay: New Labour Are Cleaned Up Trots 2008

  • July 17, 2007 9:04 PM , fox hunting militant from Consett said...

    The Forgotten By Election in Sedgefield 2007

  • July 17, 2007 8:51 PM , militant fox hunter from Consett said...

    The Forgotten By Election in Sedgefield 2007

  • At the time of their marriage, he was living at 27 Upington Terrace, Consett.

    A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

  • 'While all this was going on in the dale, Dorothy and Sam arranged to move house from Consett to Sheffield the same week the disappearance was planned so the new neighbours wouldn't realize I wasn't really their Janis.

    A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

  • November, 1888, E.A. Richardson, employed at the Consett iron works, in the county of Durnham, England, received a shock from an arc-light plant, from the effects of which he died two hours later.

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

  • Shortly afterwards the bailiff acting on behalf of the countess, and the ringleaders in the Consett affair, were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

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