Chris Lloyd

COLUMN: CHRIS LLOYD

The snowdrops which appeared as if by magic in the middle of Christoph's fury outside my front door on Wednesday

A white drop of hope pushing up through the grey floods
STORM Christoph has hit us hard. I work at home in my attic in these miserable pandemic days, and for 48 unrelenting hours, Christoph hammered on the roof just above my head.

A light burned in the windows of the Hole in the Wall in Darlington Horsemarket

Eating Out: A banquet in a box from the Hole in the Wall

Boris Johnson at Sedgefield Cricket Club

COLUMN: CHRIS LLOYD The Tory tsunami: would we do the same one year on?

A hog roast Scotch Egg - although we'd suggest that to be properly gourmet, the yolk should be slightly soft and runny

COLUMN: CHRIS LLOYD The east coast origins of the substantial meal of the moment

Rishi Sunak versus Queen Anne

COLUMN: CHRIS LLOYD Will Sunak's big freeze be as bad as the Great Frost?

Do you double butter?

COLUMN: CHRIS LLOYD Should we toast Nigella for her double butter approach?

Margaret Thatcher drives off the first Mini Metro on October 17, 1980 - 40 years ago this week

OPINION CHRIS LLOYD: Twocking times in Metroland

Evel Knievel and Chris Lloyd

Thanks to Rishi, I'm going to retrain as the next Evel Knievel

File photo dated 28/07/08 of a badger, as animals rights campaigners condemned a Government decision to extend badger culls to Dorset in a bid to control the spread of TB in cattle. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday August 28, 2015. Farming

Can I stop badgers from snuffling up my lawn?

Wally Moon of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Are our councils making the most of the cycling boom?

The sandwich was named after the Earl of Sandwich. Picture: Pixabay.com

Chris Lloyd: How a controversial Earl came to have a snack named after him

A dog rose beside the East Coast Main Line at Dalton-on-Tees

Chris Lloyd: The story of the dog rose, and was it the inspiration for Itchycoo Park?

James II, whose statue was thrown into the Tyne

How an unpopular statue was plucked from its plinth and ducked in Newcastle – in 1689

Dominic Cummings leaves his north London home

Chris Lloyd: How past tours of Durham by advisors called Cummings ended in bloodshed and imprisonment

Sheila Harris, of The Northern Echo Camera Club, pictured this striking cloud formation in Darlington on Saturday morning. She says: 'I was very lucky to get them, they only lasted a few minutes'

Chris Lloyd: The crazy cloud formation seen in the skies over Darlington

Rishi's post with the sack of Yorkshire tea bags

Chris Lloyd: For all the tea in China

Newly installed Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street, London, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffles his Cabinet. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday February 13, 2020. See PA story POLITICS Reshuffle. Photo credit should read:

The rise and rise of Rishi – our next Prime Minister?

Locomotion No 1

Still steamed up about the fate of Locomotion No 1

From The Northern Echo of January 1, 1973

Äddi a vill gléck to you all

Locomotion No 1 at Head of Steam Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Darlington's identity is on the line

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The shame of the Tees Valley train

General Election 2019: Darlington Constituency Count. Conservative Party candidate Peter Gibson after he is declared the winner with his supporters. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH

A tidal wave of Toryism

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The last election in the dark days of December

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Taking the wrapper off plastic pollution

Steve Bloomer, England's joint 11th highest scorer with Harry Kane

The Boro striker who was hotter than Harry Kane

Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers his speech during the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Convention Centre. Picture: PA

Opinion Chris Lloyd: Will Boris end up a snivelling, blubbing blockhead?

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Singing out a mnemonic for a no-deal exit

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Filibustered out by a big girl's blouse

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There's No Place like Utopia

The saffron yellow sails of Hush in upper Teesdale, with the full majesty of the dale behind. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

In upper Teesdale is one of the largest outdoor artworks ever in this country, but is it any good?

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Why do we say 'it is raining cats and dogs'?

Still over the Moon about Apollo

Roadworks at the eastern transport corridor at Haughton Road in Darlington in 2008

A roundabout way of celebrating Darlington's history

French-sounding name: Seas de Store in Redcar

Redcar rain falls mainly on Majuba

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The weatherman who put the D into Day

Boris Johnson, who starts as front runner to replace Theresa May

PREMIUM Who dares to be the next Tory to tackle Europe, the killer of careers?

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What is Labour's future in the Tees Valley?

Derek Foster, and his wife Anne, during his first election campaign in 1979

Dapper Derek and the mandarins

Chris Lloyd Incredible story of Rana whose great escape has come to an end

Jeremy Corbyn: no kowtowing

Kowtowing to the great god of gout

FUDGE: This is what our nation's future is reduced to...

Chris Lloyd: Fudge is the taste of the future

The cling-clang of the chiffchaff heralding spring

The Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee

Chris Lloyd: A shambles is a market - not a common market, but a meat market

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 17: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a mosque-goer at the Kilbirnie Mosque on March 17, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand. 50 people are confirmed dead and 36 are injured still in hospital following shooting attacks on two

Peering leaderless into the Brexit abyss – could a second referendum save the day, and Mrs May?

Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday March 13, 2019. See PA story POLITICS PMQs May. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/PA Wire.

A little understanding for our MPs

After 50 years Harry Mead's weekly column is coming to an end

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Is it a codpiece or a callus?

Ian Wrigglesworth 1983

The last great split - Headline from 1983 gives indication of future for rebel MPs

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Dunnocks, trollops and tattyboggles

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Be open and frank: we're scunnered

Snowdrops are first mentioned growing in a British garden in 1597

Chris Lloyd: What Nissan could learn from the humble snowdrop

The greatest defeat: from The Northern Echo of October 9, 1924, when Ramsay MacDonald set an unwanted record that Theresa May has finally taken from him in 2019

Is Brexit the Zinoviev of our time?

TRANSPORTER BRIDGE POSTCARD

Middlesbrough versus Newport: a tale of two transporters

NEW CHAIR: Shelagh Avery outside the Witham Hall, which stands prominently on Barnard Castle's main street

Opinion: chris lloyd Can Shelagh help save Barnard Castle's precious Witham?