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  • Lawyers solve another

    Our old friend Dr Graeme Forster, now manager of Tow Law Town, has been proving a good neighbour to Stanley United supremo Vince Kirkup - another long-serving member of the Backtrack team. What with Blackpool's attractions and the average footballer's

  • Dope-smoke Tories choose road to hell

    I'M NOT shocked by the news that at least seven prominent members of the Tory party smoked cannabis when they were at university. What is shocking is that anyone should be remotely interested in the fact. "University student smokes cannabis" - as a boring

  • Saucy chalk and cheese champions

    FOR reasons which will be explained in Thursday's John North column, we were summoned last Thursday to a meeting of Spennymoor Pub Watch, ten o'clock kick off. It was in The Bridge. A notice behind the bar proclaimed "Happy minute: 11am to 11.01." Watching