The Northern Echo | Sharon's View

Where’s the dignity, Denise?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:55:49 +0000

DID you really want to see Denise Welch sobbing her way through Loose Women this week?

The toughest job in the world

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:25:41 +0000

RIGHT. So it’s all the parents’ fault. It always is. Charlie Taylor, the Government’s behaviour tsar, (No, I didn’t know we had one either. Apparently he’s a London headmaster and rated very highly) has said that last summer’s riots were all down to feckless parenting.

We’re making boys blue

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:46:16 +0000

Girls will be in the pink thanks to their new Lego. Now it’s time to give the lads some backing.

In other words, we need to talk

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:57:04 +0000

If babies are to learn, we must spend more time chatting – and singing – to them.

Stroppy landlords? I’ll drink to that

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:03 +0000

Binge drinking’s a problem – but leave us our daily tipple.

No excuse for neglect

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:32:54 +0000

BABYBOOMERS of Britain unite! You have nothing to lose but your dignity, your pension and 20 years of decent living 2011 was not a good year for babyboomers.

Saying the unsayable

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:50:30 +0000

WOW. Sometimes we need women like Helen Fernandes to wake us up a bit and re think our ideas.

Sport? It’s a boys’ game

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:03:40 +0000

SO, no women on the shortlist of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Should we care?

No ideal age to be a mother

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:20:55 +0000

SUSAN Tollefesen was 57 when she became Britain’s oldest first-time mother using a donor egg. Now aged 62 and separated from her partner, 11 years younger, this week she said she believes there should be an age limit of 50 for IVF.

Welcome to the madhouse

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:45:05 +0100

LONGER hospital visiting hours so that relatives can be more involved in patient care? It’s an absolutely appalling idea.