61.   The vehicle smashed into a tree and wall in Pensby Road, Heswall, during the early hours of today.

62.   Five teams of firemen struggle through the early hours to control a blaze at Finkles Bar, Lorne Terrace, in South Bank, Middlesbrough.

63.   Police have appealed for any witnesses who may have been in the area in the early hours of Saturday.

64.   Young Keely Smith woke her sleeping dad Paul, who found his Middlesbrough terrace house thick with smoke in the early hours of yesterday.

65.   The blaze broke out at Darlington and Simpson Rolling Mills factory site, off Whessoe Road, during the early hours of the morning.

66.   Tension mounted in the early hours of yesterday morning when a shot was heard in the area of the siege house.

67.   Thieves broke into the homes of two under-managers for Fairworld Amusements in Redcar in the early hours of Monday.

68.   The fire brigade was called to Spencerbeck House in Middlesbrough in the early hours of yesterday morning where there was a fire in the bin room.

69.   A WOMAN was indecently assaulted in Darlington in the early hours yesterday.

70.   Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers.