A Giant among regions
9:50am Friday 18th July 2008
WHEN they unveiled plans for the Eiffel Tower there was uproar. The cream of France’s intellectuals petitioned for the “monstrosity” to be scrapped, predicting it would bring shame on Paris.
Comments (0)We can stop the stabbings
9:19am Friday 4th July 2008
THE youth of the victims, the random nature of the violence, the sheer waste of it all make knife attacks a hideous crime.
A river runs at the heart of it
9:03am Friday 27th June 2008
BEFORE this week, if anyone had asked me what an Archimedes screw was, I would have assumed they were having problems with their flat pack.
A salute to the real heroes
8:20am Friday 20th June 2008
HERO is the most overused word in our language.
School bullies
9:22am Friday 13th June 2008
THE most effective way of ensuring a child turns out a failure, is to tell them they are one.
Common sense is the key word
9:03am Friday 6th June 2008
IT'S a phrase I'll be associated with until my dying day, but people got it wrong about zero tolerance. If I had to pick a word that defined zero tolerance as I saw and practised it, it would be intervention.
The ‘guilty men’ of today
10:01am Friday 30th May 2008
BACK in the 1930s a lot of people got all dewy-eyed about Soviet Russia, idolising Stalin and portraying a regime based on mass murder as a workers' paradise.
No time for regrets
9:11am Friday 23rd May 2008
THE residents of Nottingham have woken up to an odd sight in recent weeks - a middleaged man pounding the highways of the shire. It's not the sheriff chasing Kevin Costner, or, for older readers, Richard Greene. It's a more modern - and I'm glad to say successful - lawman, Steve Green, the retiring chief constable of the county.
The rubber stamp
8:31am Friday 16th May 2008
IKNOW it does lots of other things too, but I would imagine the Post Office classes communications as pretty much their core business.
He's got more than talent
12:18pm Friday 9th May 2008
IT happens every now and again; sometimes at a football match, other times at a play or a concert.
National News
Market towns tops for house prices
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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