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The girl who beat Aids

10:01am Tuesday 19th August 2008

After the success of Live Aid and the more recent Live 8, the plight of Africa and its Aids epidemic have again been pushed into the background.

Golden moments

10:00am Tuesday 19th August 2008

PERHAPS we’re just riding on the crest of a golden wave at the moment, but doesn’t it look good to see Great Britain sitting third in the Olympics medals table?

It’s all getting out of control

10:03am Tuesday 19th August 2008

HERE’S a tale for our times. Someone wrote to tell me that she has been running a little community support group for senior citizens in her village for 30 years.

A close shave

10:13am Tuesday 19th August 2008

Would you let someone loose on your neck with a cut-throat razor? Owen Amos finds himself at the sharp end at a Darlington barber’s

Colour me beautiful

10:16am Tuesday 19th August 2008

A good hair colour can transform both the appearance and condition of your hair from bland to brilliant

Riparian yarns

10:18am Tuesday 19th August 2008

In a column replete with superlatives, there’s praise for one of the truly great pubs of the North

Eat me

10:20am Tuesday 19th August 2008

Julius Caesar And The Druids: Revealed (five, 8pm); The Man Who Cycled The World (BBC1, 10.35pm); Money Makers: Beach Break Live (BBC3, 9pm)

The player with the Common touch

ON THE BALL: Sunderland and Middlesbrough star Alfred Common

4:05pm Monday 18th August 2008

There was outrage in 1905 when Middlesbrough paid £1,000 for the services of Sunderland player Alfred Common.

Humble miller's son who gave away a million to his workers

TR Ferens, the Shildon lad who became a millionaire MP. Picture courtesy of Hull City Council.

3:54pm Monday 18th August 2008

Nowadays, he is little-known in his home town, but he helped found an international empire that is known the world over. Echo Memories investigates the life of TR Ferens

Team puts ‘great’ back into Britain

11:53am Monday 18th August 2008

THE problems of childhood obesity are well known. Our children watch too much television. They prefer playing video games to playing outside. They eat too much junk food.


National News

Lords urge VAT reform

A Lords committee has urged reform the VAT system

Updated 10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

VAT rates should be reformed to make sustainable consumer goods "more economically attractive" as part of a bid to end the UK's throwaway culture, a Lords committee has suggested.


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