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Hospital parking pain
11:23am Tuesday 9th February 2010
ON Tuesday, February 2, I had to go to Darlington Memorial Hospital for an operation at 10am. My friend and I got there at 9.40am. We then spent the next 20 minutes trying to find a parking space.
MMR and autism
11:26am Tuesday 9th February 2010
BARRY Nelson’s article regarding links between MMR and autism (Echo, Feb 4) was irresponsible journalism and scaremongering. It is shameful The Northern Echo has based an entire article on one person’s perception of “a possibility”.
Blair and Iraq
11:27am Tuesday 9th February 2010
IN discussions on the rights and wrongs of regime change, Tony Blair has been allowed to maintain the euphemism of “removing” former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Citizenship
11:28am Tuesday 9th February 2010
SOME years ago the AQA Examination Board produced a five-dimensional citizenship syllabus that could have been the base of the studies of all subjects. The study would need to be student-centred for if we are act as citizens we need to understand things for ourselves and not that which is dictated to us.
Politics turn-off
11:29am Tuesday 9th February 2010
I DESPAIR at the determination of Durham City’s Labour MP and Liberal Democrat politicians to score cheap political points in their increasingly desperate attempt to win votes which, in the process, is diminishing the reputation of Durham.
Voting systems
11:30am Tuesday 9th February 2010
WHEN the Labour Party was elected in 1997 a commission was set up to suggest a more representative system for voting in General Elections.
Nasty pheasant
11:31am Tuesday 9th February 2010
LIKE Christopher Wardell (HAS, Feb 6) I, too, was interested to read Will Roberts’ article about the nuisance pheasant in Newsham, North Yorkshire (Echo, Feb 3).
Think about it...
11:32am Tuesday 9th February 2010
EVER wondered why “abbreviated” is such a long word?
My motives
11:54am Monday 8th February 2010
I RESPECTFULLY suggest that P Ainsley (HAS, Jan 28) checks his facts before making spurious remarks condemning me. My reason for becoming a local politician was because I am proud of Willington and most of its residents and felt I could achieve more as a councillor for their mutual benefit.
Integration
11:55am Monday 8th February 2010
PETE Winstanley says I am talking “nonsense” about the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Britons from parts of their own homeland (HAS, Jan 30). I know it might be hard for Mr Winstanley to see this when residing in an area of Britain that according to the 2001 census was 97.7 per cent white.
Global warming
11:55am Monday 8th February 2010
ROBERT Meggs (Echo, Feb 4) said that the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) had petitioned almost every scientist in the US to see if they believed that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
Tax codes warning
11:57am Monday 8th February 2010
A GLITCH in a new computer system has caused HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to send out thousands of incorrect PAYE codes to UK taxpayers.
Barnett formula
11:57am Monday 8th February 2010
I READ your article about the Barnett Formula, “Brown ‘is afraid of Scottish backlash’”
MPs' expenses
11:58am Monday 8th February 2010
HOW often have we heard MPs are not in the job for the money?
The Pope
11:59am Monday 8th February 2010
PEOPLE cannot help how they are made, but they can help or hinder challenges in their nature. All compulsions are detrimental.
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