Columnists
'Ideologically empty' Boris needs to set an example on tolerance, not play to the crowd
5:15am Thursday 13th June 2019
TRUMP in the White House. Boris in Number Ten. Brexit.
Redcar rain falls mainly on Majuba
4:18pm Thursday 13th June 2019
COME and speak to us in sunny Redcar, said the Women’s Institute. Come in flaming June when the days are sunniest and the evenings longest.
Mike Amos: Something in the air
6:30pm Tuesday 11th June 2019
TORNADO, the Darlington dreadnought, has been enjoying life on the fast line. Tornado Telegraph tells of the 21st century steam engine galloping from Leicester to Holyhead, from North Road to Chester on a circuitous route via 49 junctions and of blasting at 62mph over the formidable Shap Summit in Cumbria, a heritage steam speed record.
Over and out - a personal farewell to Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton
12:51pm Monday 10th June 2019
THE tone was set at our first meeting: “How can I make a big impact in your paper?” smiled Mike Barton.
Scrambling club
5:00am Saturday 8th June 2019
AMID the glorious plains of Bishop Auckland Golf Club there’s a Texas scramble and shotgun start, appropriate because the day’s beneficiary is himself Texan.
The weatherman who put the D into Day
2:55pm Thursday 6th June 2019
DELIVERANCE? Debarkation? Destiny? Decision? Determination? Dooms-? What does the D in D-Day stand for?
Swaledale: the squeeze
5:00am Wednesday 5th June 2019
GUNNERSIDE’S glorious, galleried Methodist church – now the only chapel in a dale which once had a dozen – may best be known for its services marking mid-summer and mid-winter days.
Making sweet music together
7:52am Monday 3rd June 2019
As World Music Day approaches, PETER BARRON reports on a flourishing partnership that's providing musical opportunities for North-East youngsters
Headline Challenge - 2019 so far in quirky headlines
7:00am Friday 31st May 2019
The Headline Challenge is played every weekday morning on the BBC Tees breakfast show (95fm). Peter Barron, and occasionally Chris Lloyd, bat for The Northern Echo, coming up with a funny story from around the world and challenging listeners to produce a better headline than theirs. Points are awarded for the best headline each day and it's double-points for a song title, film, play or book.
'People are talking about moving out' over Witton Park bridge closure
5:10am Wednesday 29th May 2019
SALUTED worldwide, Witton Park was at the heart of the protracted, but ultimately successful battle against Category D, a Durham County Council “no development” policy which condemned 121 communities to a slow death.
Finding comfort in a name
11:27am Tuesday 28th May 2019
SOMETIMES, it seems like things are meant to be...and that was the case at a poignant event held beside a beautiful North-East lake last week.
Who dares to be the next Tory to tackle Europe, the killer of careers?
5:57pm Friday 24th May 2019
EUROPE has destroyed the careers, and blighted the last years, of every Conservative Prime Minister of the last three decades: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and now Theresa May.
Ben Houchen: Saving steel – a foundation of our region
10:26am Friday 24th May 2019
STEELMAKING, along with other giants like the railways and chemicals, is one of the foundations our region was built on. It is a part of our history, but not something we should give up on now.
What is Labour's future in the Tees Valley?
12:47pm Thursday 23rd May 2019
WHILE we wait with bated breath for the European election results and for Theresa May to fall, it is worth casting an eye over the smouldering wreckage of the Labour Party in the Tees Valley.
Julia Breen: Abortion ban takes us back in time
5:00am Thursday 23rd May 2019
"I WILL not go silently back into the 1950s."
Medics who battled to save a mum-of-four learned later it was the sister of one of their closest colleagues
8:15am Monday 20th May 2019
AS they battled to save the life of a mum-of-four, the nursing and medical team had no way of knowing how close to home their latest emergency would turn out to be.
Dapper Derek and the mandarins
5:47am Friday 17th May 2019
FLICKING through a packet of old photographs of the former Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster for inspiration ahead of today’s memorial service, I was struck at how dapper he was.
Hannah Chapman
Opinion on the issues of the week by The Northern Echo's editor.
Mike Amos
Characterful people and colourful places of the North-East.
Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd on a quest to understand today’s world.
Peter Barron
Weekly columns from The Northern Echo's former editor.
Chris Moncrieff
Weekly political comment from Chris Moncrieff.
Julia Breen
Anti-injustice, pro-equality, sometimes ragey.
Ben Houchen
Monthly column from Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen.
Mike McGrother
Encouraging people to talk about mental health.
Mike Barton
Durham Police chief Mike Barton's monthly column on policing.
