Mike Amos

Farewell: the end of the Northern Echo era for Mike Amos

The designated driver being in Singapore, the bus service from Houghton to home not exactly frequent, the column missed the tribute night at Philadelphia Cricket Club to honour Malcolm Pratt’s 60 years service. It climaxed when the function room was formally named the Malcolm Pratt Lounge.

After 55 years in journalism, 34 years of Backtrack, Mike Amos’s final column

Winds of change as Mike Amos bids farewell

Mike Amos The new book on Geoffrey Smith and a bit of history on John Burton's football career

Mike Amos The story of Jimmy Scarbrough and his football career

Mike Amos Revisiting Murton to see how far their football team has come

Mike Amos catches up with a folk band celebrating 50 years

The strange phenomenon of a glaring pitch and other mid-game oddities

Mike Amos The once youngest hat-trick scorer in Football League history watches his beloved Oldham Athletic

Mike Amos Broomfield runners mark their fifth birthday

Mike Amos A two man excursion on the Railroad to Wembley to see Shildon beaten by Lower Breck

Paying tribute to one of Yorkshire’s greatest all-round sportsmen

Diamond geezer

Matinee performance

In memory of a former hotelier, and celebrating all things Halloween

Mike Amos Help from The Prince's Trust to paint perimeter of Darlington Railway Athletic club

Mike Amos The replica Darlington nameplate and the "suggestions of skullduggery" surrounding it

Celebration of the world's oldest railway institute, plus plenty of beer

Greenswordsmanship

Mike Amos Annual excursion orgy finally gets under way to see Crook beaten in first round of FA Vase

MIKE AMOS From bombs to blitzkrieg: wartime memories recalled in new book

Second’s out: Long-serving Shildon boxing coach stands down

Former England winger returns to his roots signing his new autobiography at Waterstones in Darlington

Blue plaque finally unveiled for Spennymoor's aviation pioneer

Healy delighted

Jim Elliott: Death of a Wolves cub

Mike Amos marks the 160th anniversary of a favourite Darlington public house

Levels’ best

Guiding light: Dave Thomas’s uplifting autobiography is compelling reading

Community buy-out on the agenda for parish church

One door opens….

Mike Amos: Splendid weekend for Willington Cricket Club and its great stalwart

Mike Amos meets the man behind the revival of Shildon Carnival

The Crook lad who joined the 1860s gold rush to Australia

Mike Amos visits the closest football ground to the sea in Europe

Exploring the Old Shildon vein

Mike Amos: New play chronicles links between Manchester United and Bishop Auckland after the Munich air disaster

Mike Amos: Perhaps a billions-to-one shot, I catch up with the nine-hole wonders

Mike Amos travels to a village flooded with community spirit

Long-serving former West Auckland FC secretary Allen Bayles has died, aged 71

Mike Floate’s football photographs have filled more than 20 books

Pitch perfect in the Feversham League - despite travails of Northern Rail

Visiting cricketing Aussies suffer another washout - but in County Durham this time

Plenty to celebrate on a Saturday afternoon in Tow Law

Guiding lights

Sharon Gayter targets breaking men's records following latest epic challenge

World beater

High Plains drift

From Skerne Park to Aston Villa to Cummins: The Darlington footballer back in love with the game

Funding to save the bridge at Witton Park may have been identified

Barnes storming

Means and ends

Fingers outing

Tangle o’ the Isles