| Max factor | | 10:17am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | Midnight Man (ITV1, 9pm); Come Dine With Me (C4, 8pm)
LIKE policemen and private eyes
on television, fictional journalists
come complete with a set of
quirks, doubts and a troubled personal
life. Max Raban, anti-hero
of three-part thriller, Midnight
Man, ticks all the boxes as a maverick journalist. |
| Genial giant | | 10:28am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | Gentle giant wrestler
Gordon Renton was
finally floored by an
umbrella in
Inverness
HE was 5ft 9ins, weighed 25
stones and at one time it
would have taken six men to
carry the bier. The genial
Gordon Renton, alias the
fearsome Farmer's Boy, was much
lighter when he died, aged 62, two weeks
ago. |
| Bumpy ride | | 11:02am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | IF you're going to faint then it's
always handy to do it front of
a doctor. When Roxy Mitchell
falls lifeless to the floor, Dr
Felix is on hand to administer
first aid. Any excuse to loosen
her clothing in EastEnders (BBC1). |
 | What makes a paedophile? | | 1:28pm Wed 7 May 08 | | Why do some adults
find children sexually
attractive and is there
a stereotypical
paedophile? In the second of a
two-part series, Owen Amos
speaks to an academic expert
and visits a worrying website | | Reader comment (1) |
| The in-fluence crowd | | 1:43pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | ANOTHER Newspaper,
shall we say, is preparing a
list of 500 of the North-
East's "most influential" |
| Manuals for mere mortals | | 1:44pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | ARRGGHHH! Did you hear me
at the weekend? Did you hear
my cries of fury, frustration
and plain old-fashioned temper? |
| The right sort of listening | | 1:31pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | "TONY listens and learns. Here is Tony listening
and learning. Now look. Gordon
listens and learns. Here is Gordon listening
and learning." |
| Survival is priority | | 1:30pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | THE international spotlight was shining
strongly on Burma long before Saturday's
cyclone which left the country facing a humanitarian
crisis on a massive scale. |
| Tracking down the child abusers | | 9:20am Tuesday 6th May 2008 | | Stories about child pornography are increasing. But is
the crime more common, or its detection more
effective? How do police catch paedophiles and what
toll does it take on officers? | | Reader comment (1) |
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