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Parents join the pupils for workshops in science Work set to start on new library and retail units
PARENTS of pupils at a Whitley Bay First School have been supporting their children during a science event. The youngsters at Langley First School took part in a SciTech Fair. More than 140 parents attended a workshop where they had to operate in teams to complete various scientific investigations while working competitively to beat the opposition. The children’s mums and dads also had the chance to get in to the mind set of the young scientists to see first hand what is being in
Three of the pupils at Whitley Bay’s Langley First School who took part in the SciTech Fair displaying some of their work.
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WORK is set to begin soon on the first phase of a major redevelopment that will bring a state of the art library to Wallsend. NewRiver Retail, owners of the Forum shopping centre, will start work on the library, community centre and extended retail space at the centre, in partnership with North Tyneside Council. The local authority’s approval of its 2013-14 budget has given the green light for NewRiver Retail to progress plans approved late last year to regenerate the facility and transform the currently vacant Co-op building into a modern 50,000 sq ft library and community centre with three additional new retail units on the ground floor.
An artist’s impression of the new library. NewRiver Retail said the £5m investment to deliver the development demonstrates its commitment to help regenerate the town and drive economic sustainability. Phase one of the project includes re-modelling the n Turn to page 4
Inquest hears of how woman stabbed herself 128 times
Margaret believes electric shocks led to sister’s suicide By Tegan Chapman
tegan.chapman@northeast-press.co.uk
A WOMAN whose sister stabbed herself to death, fears that electric shock treatment may have led to her altered state of mind. Elizabeth Fuller tried to commit suicide on a number of occasions before she ended her life at her Wallsend home by stabbing herself 128 times. An inquest heard last week how the 61-year-old, who had
Margaret Hall.
a borderline personality disorder and suffered from psychotic episodes, stabbed herself numerous times, dying as a result of blood loss. Despite being estranged from her family for many years, her sister Margaret Hall believes treatment given to Elizabeth by doctors at St George’s Hospital in Morpeth many decades previously, may have led to a change in character and her suicidal thoughts. Speaking to the News Guard-
ian, Margaret, 69, said: “She was in and out of St George’s over the years. “She went in for a week at a time, then when that wasn’t having any effect, she went in for two weeks, which is where she started getting electric shock therapy. “Until then she had a very good, working brain. “When they bought her back she was a zombie, I remember n Turn to page 35
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