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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:57:37 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Eurovision song contest</title>
           
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  I ENJOYED the Eurovision Song Contest. The Danes won it with a decent tune but my favourite entry this year was the ska-flavoured offering by Greece, which sent me into a musical frenzy.
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           <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:51:12 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Chris Huhne</title>
           
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  DO short-term prison sentences work? Evidently not if the recent report about re-offending is to be believed (Echo, May 15).
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           <title>Disgraceful</title>
           
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  DAVID CAMERON and Nick Clegg have brought disgrace upon our nation and dishonour to themselves with their interest in gay marriage and unrighteous policies that were not mentioned in their manifestos.
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           <title>Thanks</title>
           
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  I WOULD like to thank everyone in Spennymoor and Tudhoe who voted Labour in the recent local elections, returning four Labour county councillors and a strong Labour majority to Spennymoor Town Council – a majority which has served the people of Spennymoor well for many years.
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           <title>Exploitation</title>
           
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  I WAS shocked to read an article by Dr Taj Hargey, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, about the preachers who teach young Muslim men that white girls are cheap.
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           <title>Demonisation</title>
           
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  THE vilification of unemployed and handicapped people, immigrants and, more recently, the European Union is nothing more than seeking political advantage by the promotion of prejudice.
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           <title>Going Together</title>
           
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  THE Cold War was entering an uncertain phase when I joined the RAF in 1961. Certainly, the top brass had to reappraise what form future hostilities would take and it did make for some rather bizarre battlefield training.
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           <title>Relieved Racing Fan</title>
           
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  I WAS boarding the bus to York races on Wednesday May 15 near the city’s railway station.
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           <title>Social Services</title>
           
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  IN his letter about immigration, John Young (HAS 6 May) questions the relevance of the lower end of the social scale.
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           <title>Fury over Fergie's farewell</title>
           
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  DESPITE needing no further proof, we were shown this week the superficiality and shallowness of this country.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:36 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Railway heritage</title>
           
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  I WRITE in response to Shirley King’s letter (HAS, May 9) about the value Darlington council places on the town’s railway heritage.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:05 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Ukip</title>
           
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  IT doesn’t take a political analyst to observe that Ukip took a considerable number of votes from the Conservatives in the recent elections.
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           <title>Waning power</title>
           
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  THE power and dominance Britain once enjoyed in world affairs is past.
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           <title>The Queen</title>
           
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  IT always makes me chuckle when someone in England has a go at our Queen for being “German” especially when that someone is Germanic themselves.
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           <title>Thanks</title>
           
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  CAN I take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported their local Labour candidates in the recent council elections.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:41:51 +0100</pubDate>
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