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Car plant bags new Nissan model
A new compact car, to be built when UK production of Nissan's Micra ends, is to be built in Sunderland.
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Nissan unveils compact 4x4 model
Nissan unveils its small 4x4 that it plans to produce in the UK, creating hundreds of jobs, at a launch ceremony in Paris.
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Car plant produces latest model
Production on the first of a new car model starts at the Nissan plant on Wearside.
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Wearside: Year in review 2005
BBC Online looks at some of the stories that made the news in Wearside in 2005.
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Suicide driver escapes jail term
A man who tried to kill himself by driving into a van has escaped a jail sentence.
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New Nissan car 'will secure jobs'
Nissan is to produce a new car at its plant in the North East, which it says will help to safeguard 1,000 jobs.
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Three in hospital after collision
Three people are being treated in Addenbrooke's Hospital after a Boxing Day collision on the A141.
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Man stabbed for speaking Russian
A Latvian man is in a critical condition after he is stabbed in the head by a gang who hear him speaking Russian.
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Woman killed in ambulance crash
A woman driver is killed when her car is in an accident with an ambulance on an emergency call.
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Woman is dragged from burning car
Passers-by rescue a woman from a burning car after a crash.
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News in Brief
A busyDerby cinema is evacuated due to a security alert... plus more news from around Derbyshire.
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M6 reopens after fatal collision
A lorry collides with two cars on the M6 motorway in Lancashire, killing two drivers.
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Four bailed over crash car probe
Police bail four people after several are hurt when a stolen Nissan Micra , carrying eight people, overturns on a road in Northumberland.
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Vehicle carrying eight overturns
Firefighters cut three people free from the wreckage of a car thought to have been carrying eight teenagers when it crashed.
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Tree collision death man is named
An inquest is set to open into the death of a Doncaster man whose car was involved in a collision with a tree.
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Man, 45, killed as car hits tree
A Doncaster man dies after an accident in which his car left the road and hit a tree.
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Million milestone for car workers
The millionth Nissan micra for the UK market rolls off the production line at the company's Wearside factory.
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Mugger who ran over woman jailed
A mugger who ran over a woman and killed her after she tried to grab back a handbag he had stolen is jailed for life.
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Hit-and-run driver still at large
A driver who left another motorist with serious injuries after crashing into his car has still not been traced.
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Man 'ran over and killed' woman
A mugger ran over a woman and killed her after she tried to grab a handbag he had stolen from her, a court hears.
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