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Terry affair sparks a few choice words

11:18am Saturday 6th February 2010

FOOTBALLERS aren’t known for their grasp of the finer points of the English language, but their philandering has had me reaching for the dictionary.

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Tda pigeon just a flight of fancy?

10:28am Saturday 30th January 2010

AT the end of my talk in Tudhoe, County Durham, on Monday night, a man approached. “Do you know what Tda is famous for?” he asked.

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Climbing a mountain

10:56am Saturday 23rd January 2010

AS I watch the nightly horrific scenes on TV, I realise how little I know about Haiti. How can a government crumble as quickly as buildings? What causes a country to be the poorest in the western hemisphere? So I’ve found a few pointers: Ayiti means “mountainous country” in the language of the native Taino people.

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The spooky turn of the doorknob...

10:47am Saturday 16th January 2010

THE way she acted out the turning of the doorknob convinced me. She held one hand out flat to represent the door and curled up the fingers of the other so that they grasped its rounded doorknob.

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Bingo lingo: keep the whole lotto

12:11pm Saturday 2nd January 2010

THE silliest story of the season has come from Suffolk where Sudbury Town Council has asked 75-year-old bingo caller John Sayers to modify his language.

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Snow: more varieties than Heinz

11:28am Saturday 26th December 2009

STANDING at the top of the sledging bank which was sculpted out of the North Yorkshire countryside by the River Tees many millennia ago, I fell to thinking about snow.

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Star of a reallife drama

10:34am Saturday 5th December 2009

TOMORROW, Bishop Auckland Hippodrome celebrates its 100th birthday.

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Rattle on, you game fieldfares

12:09pm Saturday 21st November 2009

THERE cannot be many jobs in this country where when you leave home in the morning you cannot be certain of returning safely when the work is done.

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Is Neptune too big for his pants?

10:56am Saturday 14th November 2009

HIS long locks flowing, his beard billowing, his muscles rippling – Neptune is an all-action hero as he skewers with his trident the dolphin trapped beneath his feet. The mighty fish wriggles in desperation, a piercing shriek coming out from its gaping, tooth-lined mouth.

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