Asthma issue unacceptable

9:19am Tuesday 6th May 2008

THE Northern Echo has a proud history of fighting to end inequalities in the NHS.

No room for further error

10:06am Monday 5th May 2008

IF Gordon Brown is to make a fist of his promised fightback, the first step was to hold up his hands and take responsibility for the very deep hole in which the Labour Party finds itself.

Why Brown must act now

8:59am Saturday 3rd May 2008

AS the first local election results came in last night and the full extent of the Labour vote collapse became clear, all the old cliches were trotted out.

Clear case for transparency

10:03am Friday 2nd May 2008

TEN years ago this newspaper campaigned successfully to bring treatment for patients with heart disease into line with the rest of Europe.

Costly lessons to be learned

10:01am Thursday 1st May 2008

THERE is no denying that the debacle surrounding Darlington's new Eastern Transport Corridor road link is a serious matter.

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.

Reader comments (8)

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.

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