No place like home for Nick
10:02am Saturday 4th July 2009
NIGEL Gates, North-East lad but world traveller, will be back in the UK tonight on the trail of a global award for creating change through sport.
Have your say »Get Carter at Newcastle
9:18am Tuesday 30th June 2009
AS if ignominy could further be aggravated, Magpies fans will have been discomforted not only to see Roker Park win the 2.35 at Newcastle’s big race meeting on Saturday – the 9-1 odds exactly the same as Sunderland’s hitherto biggest win on Tyneside, December 5, 1908 – but that Horatio Carter won the 3.45 event at 11-4.
Sad loss of England’s ‘greatest woman bowler’
11:01am Saturday 20th June 2009
NORMA SHAW, perhaps the most successful North-East sportsperson of all time – certainly the most successful woman – has died suddenly.
Grace’s dismissal gives Spout House another claim to fame
10:50am Tuesday 16th June 2009
SELDOM far from these Ionic columns, Spout House Cricket Club made a twopage debut in Saturday’s Guardian. Thus was a remarkable statistic revealed about the man reckoned England’s greatest cricketer.
Villagers left Coundon their trophies
10:51am Saturday 13th June 2009
THE village of Coundon, it is soberly supposed, once had more pubs per head than anywhere else in the kingdom. After a couple, they insist that it used to be in the Guinness Book, After one or two more, they start naming them.
Spout’s posh new House
10:22am Tuesday 9th June 2009
JUST when it seemed that they wouldn’t leave their little wooden hut for anyone, our friends at Spout House Cricket Club finally have their new pavilion, inaugurated last week.
Amble Angus still a vintage Claret
9:42am Saturday 6th June 2009
WARKWORTH’S a lovely little place on the Northumberland coast, roughly between Tyne and Tweed. The Coquet flows frisky; the great castle stands, still.
Annual escape committee returns to land of Scotch pies
9:38am Tuesday 2nd June 2009
FAIR play to the Germans, they gave us the wonderful word schadenfreude, a masterpiece of economy which the English more loosely translate as “taking pleasure at others’ misfortunes”.
Thrown to the Wolves
8:57am Saturday 30th May 2009
ON this day precisely 125 years ago, around 20 men attended a meeting unanimously to form Wolviston Cricket Club.
The trials of young Jonathan
8:53am Tuesday 26th May 2009
FOR a split second Jonathan Richardson is literally between a rock and a hard place, essaying the sort of manoeuvre – this time for the photographer – that he’s completed countless times before.
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