A TEENAGER who was part of a group expelled from a trip for drinking went on to attack a man in Cox's Demesne with a pick axe handle had the case against him adjourned last week. An earlier court ...

If you’ve got to break up hard ground — concrete, asphalt, hard-packed dirt, etc. — nothing does the job better than a pickaxe. It’s a straightforward tool, and at first glance looks much the same ...

Ash and hickory are the best wood species for a pickaxe or mattock with a wooden handle. These hardwoods are very strong and ...

A MAN who brandished a pick axe handle outside in a North-East nightspot has been jailed for a year. Anthony Dixon, 25, threatened revellers at the Union bar in Consett, County Durham, believing a ...

Three men have been convicted after they battered a coach driver and his teenage colleague with a pick-axe handle. Nathan Gayle, Thomas Freeman, and Chad Thompson went on a trip to Blackpool in ...

A MOTHER-of-two was confronted by three armed men who burst into her home after 4am and started breaking furniture and mirrors, a court heard. Only a plea by Kirsty Harris that her two children were ...

Police saw a man shouting and swearing and brandishing a pickaxe handle in an aggressive manner, who claimed he'd been defending himself. Blackburn Magistrates' Court heard Paul McLaughlan then ...