EVERY time I pick up The Northern Echo I read the same things.
It is a bit worrying knowing that we are surrounded by paedophiles either grooming youngsters for sex or watching and downloading child porn.
Other stories are violent attacks on innocent people, usually initiated by weak-minded bullies who use drink as an excuse. This usually ends up with the biting off of ears (we’ve had three cases in the last two weeks).
The icing on the cake was when I opened the paper on May 14 and there was a picture of a load of drunken, beer-bellied bald-headed morons from West Auckland and Dunston brawling in a pub outside Wembley.
Have all the normal people been abducted by aliens or emigrated to Australia or New Zealand?
Stephen Hadden, Bishop Auckland.
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