The Northern Echo | Comment http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/ The Northern Echo /features/comment/ en-gb Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:23:05 +0000 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:23:05 +0000 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/1096816/?type=rsslogo The Northern Echo | Comment http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/ Honour for a true hero http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9532717.Honour_for_a_true_hero/r/?ref=rss THE word ‘hero’ is used far too casually in the modern media. It is applied with slapdash regularity to sportsmen and celebrities of limited achievement, with the consequence that its value is undermined.

]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:21:37 +0000 40397e0a13136551b3e82b125c355e8b Facing the music http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9528279.Facing_the_music/r/?ref=rss IN many ways, the saddest thing about the death of American singer Whitney Houston is that it could hardly be regarded as a surprise.

]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:51:31 +0000 372435c2bcbb9534c3e319fd73da3981 The choice is simple http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9525134.The_choice_is_simple/r/?ref=rss THE Football Association will meet today to begin the task of finding a successor to Fabio Capello as England manager.

]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:28 +0000 e7d9f1be3e9c2529a8804ab3be00cee9 Lunacy in Hamsterley Forest http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9519330.Lunacy_in_Hamsterley_Forest/r/?ref=rss HAMSTERLEY Forest is one of the most treasured beauty spots in our region, loved by tourists, naturalists and walkers.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:18 +0000 4f87f320d6dbbbeb53297fc638ed3f69 Football’s newest low http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9516806.Football___s_newest_low/r/?ref=rss ENGLAND’S cricketers returned to type yesterday – after a brief flicker as the world’s best Test team they have been thoroughly humbled by Pakistan – and our football team found a new way to test the nation’s patience.

]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:52 +0000 8e057fd4c5f99a17c3260f3ee37c6d6d Storm in a beer cup http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9512580.Storm_in_a_beer_cup/r/?ref=rss THERE is something wonderfully absurd about British politics.

]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:57:36 +0000 0a5bf7758ec51527a45ed620b4130a49 Come on Quakers! http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9509515.Come_on_Quakers_/r/?ref=rss YET more twists and turns on the Darlo rollercoaster yesterday took the football club to where most people wanted it to be: in the ownership of the fans.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:35:16 +0000 759bec9141e42abe1ab922b31bbc6953 A just reward http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9505630.A_just_reward/r/?ref=rss IF FRED Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had a shred of decency he would have returned his knighthood long before the Queen asked for her gong back.

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:57:33 +0000 0732a44e0efd905e67bd9ad9693c83f6 A fair day's pay for...? http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9503282.A_fair_day_s_pay_for____/r/?ref=rss THE furore over RBS chief executive Stephen Hester’s bonus is entirely understandable, and it is peculiar that it took so much pressure and so much time for him to agree not to accept it.

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:44:23 +0000 efe9cd866727357ff8a1b8ddf9d07967 NHS must act swiftly http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/comment/9501318.NHS_must_act_swiftly/r/?ref=rss TENS of thousands of patients who were given hip replacements are at the centre of a major health alert.

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