Setting the record straight

9:36am Monday 30th June 2008

THIS is my tenth year as editor of The Northern Echo and there have been plenty of changes to manage during that time.

As I was saying to Joanna...

12:12pm Monday 23rd June 2008

WITH an impressive guest list of North- East luminaries and the opportunity to support the campaign to bring the Lindisfarne Gospels back to their rightful home, I was enticed to London for the Northumbrian Association Annual Dinner at the House of Commons last week.

An evening with The Likely Lads

8:44am Monday 16th June 2008

AS a kid growing up in the North-East, I loved The Likely Lads.

The gamble paid off

10:12am Monday 9th June 2008

GOING green was a bit like going compact.

It's a minature world

11:30am Monday 26th May 2008

SITTING in the editor's chair is all very well.

Too much detail, Cherie

10:20am Monday 19th May 2008

THOSE embroiled in the upper echelons of politics often complain that they don't get paid enough. But there is a very nice insurance policy to be had by maintaining diaries and releasing autobiographies as soon as the shackles of responsibility come off.

No need for the f-word

10:20am Monday 12th May 2008

AT the risk of being branded the new Mary Whitehouse, I find myself appalled at the dumbing down of television - and by Jonathan Ross in particular.

England – just going to the wall

10:12am Monday 5th May 2008

I DON'T profess to be a football expert. My experience is confined to playing in midfield for St Peter's school team in South Bank in the 1970s and as the much-maligned goalkeeper for The Northern Echo's Sunday morning team for much of the 1990s.

Time to draw the line

10:29am Monday 28th April 2008

IT'S fair to say that my recent column about Patientline, the private company providing television and telephone services in hospitals, has struck a chord with a lot of people.

Taking the bad with the good

11:41am Monday 21st April 2008

WHEN you work on a newspaper, there are good days and there are bad days.

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