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Chris Lloyd: Kinetically killed by Darlington's Life Pulse

12:00am Friday 19th October 2018

YESTERDAY, just before 4pm, I thought I was dead. I clasped my hands around the tallest of the five poles which make up Darlington’s Life Pulse and looked up into the beautiful blue sky.

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Julia Breen: Fairytale princess - or Royal scrounger?

5:31am Thursday 18th October 2018

A FAIRYTALE princess, wearing a long white train and kissing her new husband at the top of the castle steps.

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Harry Mead: The Brexit equivalent of the crushing of the Peasants' Revolt

5:00am Wednesday 17th October 2018

SUFFER the little children to come unto…Tony Blair. Okay, the pupils he addressed at Sedgefield Community College were not perhaps the wide-eyed innocents welcomed by Jesus. Still, an audience of schoolchildren, non-voters, seemed a strange one for Mr Blair to choose to make his North-East pitch for a second Brexit referendum. Perhaps he feared a more difficult reception on a factory floor.

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Costa plenty?

5:00am Wednesday 17th October 2018

BACK on August 25, bullish summer time, the Echo reported an internet-inspired survey that, of the 60 UK resorts with the best beaches, Whitby cost most for a family day out. It was even dearer than St Ives, goodness knows, and in Sr Ives the seagulls half-inch your ice cream.

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Wilf Power

8:41am Monday 15th October 2018

HE’S 86 next month, is suffering from a rare form of cancer and knows time is running out, but Wilf Gilbert just wants to carry on doing what he loves most – playing table tennis.

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Roadside rioters stop me in my tracks

3:06pm Thursday 11th October 2018

WEDNESDAY was the warmest October day since 2011, but it didn’t feel like it in south Durham as I drove on the A68 which, just north of Darlington, was so shrouded in fog that the headlights turned themselves on.

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Jo Morris: Addicts on street corners, the shrapnel from a drugs war lost long ago

12:00pm Thursday 11th October 2018

WHEN I last saw her, it was as a schoolgirl, more than 20 years ago now.

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All spaced out

9:05am Thursday 11th October 2018

SOME of my happiest memories of being a dad are of the kids dressing up and expecting me to join in.

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Prison sell

5:00am Thursday 11th October 2018

The performance poet who writes alternatively about terrible times behind bars

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Harry Mead: Why no life bans for dangerous drivers?

5:00am Wednesday 10th October 2018

A DRIVER high on drugs chooses to overtake at 87mph two cars on a blind bend. He crashes into a motorbike being ridden correctly the other way, killing its rider, a 27-year-old hospital doctor. Of course he is imprisoned, but for how long? Technically seven-and-a-half years. Almost certainly it will be only half that. Forty-five months. Not even four years.

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90 and still a whirlwind

12:15pm Monday 8th October 2018

IT has been a privilege to meet Sir Harold Evans twice before but the third encounter in London last week was perhaps the most inspiring yet.

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Sir Harold Evans - still a whirlwind at 90

8:23am Monday 8th October 2018

IT has been a privilege to meet Sir Harold Evans twice before but the third encounter in London last week was perhaps the most inspiring yet.

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Julia Breen: Forget the dancing and do the deal to avoid catastophic consequences of Brexit, Theresa

9:40am Thursday 4th October 2018

WATCHING Theresa May awkwardly sashaying on to the party conference stage yesterday in a pathetic attempt to boost social media presence, be more 'Boris-like', "delight the young", etc was just utterly, completely, depressing.

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Opinion: The dead woman still dancing

4:33pm Wednesday 3rd October 2018

IT was in June 2017, after her bodged general election, that Theresa May’s former Cabinet colleague George Osborne labelled her “a dead woman walking”.

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Harry Mead: Tackling dementia by recalling poetry before bed

5:00am Wednesday 3rd October 2018

TOMORROW is National Poetry Day. It was launched in 1994, and though the calendar since then has become overburdened with national days, ranging from the sombre (Holocaust Memorial Day, Jan 27) to the perhaps joyous (National Wrong Trousers Day, June 24), via the frankly infantile (National Doodle Day, March 2), it remains one of the best.

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Mike Amos: Bakelite fantastic

10:46am Tuesday 2nd October 2018

Even when 300 miles from home, the column finds that there’s always a dull moment.

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Strictly come Darlington - Peter Barron assesses hit show's grassroots impact

10:02am Monday 1st October 2018

WITH Strictly Come Dancing back on TV, Peter Barron goes along to a ballroom dancing class at a North-East community centre to assess the show's grass roots impact

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Mike Amos: Sunderland bar Life of Riley an "oasis among amid all this dross"

10:35am Wednesday 26th September 2018

THE Campaign for Real Ale has around 5,000 members in the North-East. Around 4,985 had other things on when the 2019 Good Beer Guide had a teatime launch at Fitzgerald’s, in Sunderland.

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Driven round the bend

8:23am Wednesday 26th September 2018

YOU’D think “Dad’s Taxi” might be slowing down now my four children are all grown up, but I’m in more demand than ever.

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