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An important reason to vote
11:36am Wednesday 30th April 2008
TOMORROW is an historic day in County Durham. For the first time since 1889, people have the chance to vote for members for a new kind of county council.
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Delays raise suspicions
9:16am Tuesday 29th April 2008
THE failure of unnamed Wear Valley District Council officials, who ignored warnings about potentially-deadly asbestos at a local sports centre for five years, is clearly an extremely serious matter.

Brown must show vision
10:38am Monday 28th April 2008
GORDON BROWN cancelled the autumn election so that, he said, he could expound his vision of Britain more clearly.

Fuelling a panic
9:05am Saturday 26th April 2008
THERE is nothing that makes the British panic more than the prospect of a fuel shortage.

Is this too high a price?
10:38am Friday 25th April 2008
IT has been clear to us for some time that there is a conflict at the heart of the National Health Service - a conflict between patient needs, medical opinion and the medicines watchdog, Nice.

More devil in the detail
12:17pm Thursday 24th April 2008
THERE are two ways of looking at Gordon Brown's promise to compensate pensioners, the young and childless people on low incomes who will suffer from the loss of the 10p tax rate.

Late call for reason
10:04am Wednesday 23rd April 2008
WHEN the National Union of Teachers announced at the beginning of the month that it planned to stage a one-day strike over pay, we hoped there was still time for damaging industrial action to be avoided.

Retirement
10:15am Wednesday 23rd April 2008
CAN someone inform people who speak on the various media platforms that women who have retired at 60 years of age have not taken early retirement, but have retired at their legal retirement age as stated when they became employed many years ago.

The meaning of ‘life’
8:55am Tuesday 22nd April 2008
WHY does the criminal justice system persist with issuing "life" sentences when we all know it is a meaningless charade?
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Don’t ignore burning issue
11:38am Monday 21st April 2008
A YEAR ago The Northern Echo launched a campaign to introduce safety regulations for children's pyjamas.

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