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Losing sight of reality
WE end this week with a growing sense of disbelief over the mad, mad world in which we live.
It was the week in which The Northern Echo revealed that a prisoner who was saved by prison officers from a suicide bid at Northallerton Young Offenders' Institution, was paid £575,000 compensation over an alleged breach of his human rights.
(But we are not allowed to know what actually happened. ) It was the week in which it was announced that David Beckham, a footballer who is past his best, is to be paid half a million pounds a week - yes, a week - to take his fading talents to America where "soccer" isn't taken seriously.
(But he insists it has nothing to do with the money. ) And, finally, it was the week in which we reported the quite bizarre state of affairs surrounding County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospital NHS Trust.
The cash-strapped trust, which has warned it may have to lose 130 beds and close four operating theatres, turned down a multi-million pound contract to treat nearly 500 orthopaedic patients because it couldn't guarantee that it would hit the Government's maximum six-month waiting time.
Instead, frustrated GPs were left to fund their own surgeon to carry out the operations at a private hospital.
There is, no doubt, some sense to be found in it all somewhere.
(But we are really, really struggling to spot it. )
5:42pm Saturday 13th January 2007
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