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The sweet smell of success

9:46am Saturday 12th July 2008

THE hedgerows that I flash past as I splash through the wet lanes around Darlington on my bike are full of a damp-loving medicinal plant. It usually gets overshadowed on the roadside by the tall stems and the brilliant white flowers of cow parsley, but this sodden year the more subdued meadowsweet seems to be thriving.

On the wings of the gods

10:32am Saturday 5th July 2008

THE battle between Zeus and the old gods was as titanic a struggle as Andy Murray's epic five-set comeback against Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon this week.

Too close to the news

9:05am Saturday 28th June 2008

LAST Friday, another column put to bed, I strapped on my helmet and prepared to cycle home.

Shelling out for a story

8:12am Saturday 21st June 2008

WAITING for petrol, there's plenty of time to ponder important philosophical points.

A short, one-act passion play

10:11am Saturday 7th June 2008

AFTER the rain, the ride. The torrents of Tuesday had passed by the evening.

I only have eyes for Blue

9:47am Saturday 10th May 2008

FAL Sarker is so excited she kisses me.

Drawing a veil over politics

9:02am Saturday 3rd May 2008

AD ELICIOUSLY foreign-sounding word has swum onto our tongues this week with one of our councils refusing to release a contentious report because it was in "purdah" prior to the local elections.

Heading off an ambush

9:08am Saturday 26th April 2008

I'VE been bushwhacked. A slouch hat has snuck up and ambushed me. In yesterday's paper I was writing about a First World War New Zealand soldier, who ended up in Thornaby. I described his broad-brimmed hat as being a "bushwhacker's hat"

Follow the slag brick road

9:28am Saturday 19th April 2008

TOMORROW, I will be leading a walk across some dross. I shall be asking my companions to admire the slag beneath their feet and to rejoice at the large amounts of scum all around them.

The legend spins on and on...

10:43am Saturday 12th April 2008

HES still out there, spinning forever in cyberspace.


National News

Market towns tops for house prices

House price growth fell to lowest level for 12 years

Updated 3:06am Saturday 19th July 2008

Home-buyers are prepared to pay more for properties in market towns to benefit from the high quality of life the towns offer, research shows.


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