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BUDDING chefs from Teesside are being invited to strut their culinary stuff on one of Channel 4's most popular television shows. Come Dine With Me is looking for people from the area who think they can cook, entertain and impress a group of strangers by hosting a dinner party.

By KAREN McLAUCHLAN DID you sign up for the Get A Better Life challenge? If so, health experts at Teesside University want to hear how you're getting on.

By A W FARROW THE Gazette report (04.09.08) about the UK's biggest crane having a lifting capacity of 1,200 tons and at present in operation on Stockton's footbridge (pictured above) made me think of Newport Bridge, which has been much mentioned in the Gazette.

By MARIE TURBILL; JOANNE WELFORD Who Do You Think You Are? - tonight, BBC1, 9pm American chat show host Jerry Springer, pictured above, who was born in Golders Green in 1944 after his Jewish parents escaped Nazi Germany, embarks on a journey to find out more about his roots.