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Mary Mackin, first player on the left in the front row, with the Smith's Dock Women's Team, at South Bank, in 1918

Goalden Girls - the stark contrast that shows how far women's football has come
Fresh from the Lionesses’ Euro 2022 victory, PETER BARRON highlights a contrast between the sexism facing a North-East woman in 1918 and the growth of one region’s most successful girls’ football clubs 104 years later...

THE ECHO SAYS... How can we stop lads carrying knives?

Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, during the Bank of England's financial stability report press conference, at the Bank of England, London. Picture date: Thursday August 4, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story ECONOMY Rates. Photo credit should

THE ECHO SAYS... Politicians go absent at time of crisis

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves gives an outside interview as she arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday Morning. Picture date: Sunday March 20, 2022..

OPINION: RACHEL REEVES How Truss has revealed her true Tory colours

Victoria Prentis, the Minister of State for Farming, Fisheries and Food

OPINION How we are trawling for new and bright ideas to improve our fisheries

Pete the Sweep in action.

THE ECHO SAYS... Why our communities need more people like Pete the Sweep

Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss. Picture: Owen Humphreys/ PA Wire

THE ECHO SAYS... Liz Truss has just lost the north with here "horrifically bad" plan to level down

England players sing Sweet Caroline on stage during a fan celebration to commemorate England's historic UEFA Women's EURO 2022 triumph in Trafalgar Square, London

THE ECHO SAYS... Schools must help ensure the Lionesses leave a real legacy

England's players lift the Euro 2022 trophy after their win over Germany at Wembley

Northern Echo Comment: English football will never be the same again after Lionesses' win

child fuel poverty.

OPINION: MARY KELLY FOY Labour must never fail our children in the way the Tories are

England's Beth Mead celebrates scoring their side's first goal of the game during the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Group A match at Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture date: Wednesday July 6, 2022.

THE ECHO SAYS... The Lionesses are a credit, and an inspiration, to the nation

Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond and Peter Gibson at Darlington market where they spot the Echo's sister paper, the Darlington & Stockton Times, reporting on the new Treasury campus in the town

OPINION: PETER GIBSON Why I'm backing Rishi as our next Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on the BBC leadership debate

THE ECHO SAYS... Can we trust the candidates' levelling up pledges to the north?

Me with my surfing instructor, Ollie

Tide waits for no man

Sedgefield constituency MP Paul Howell

PAUL HOWELL MP The best for Sedgefield: why I'm backing Rishi Sunak to be the next PM

Charlie Donaghy wins the Local Hero award in 2013

In a different league – remembering Local Hero Charlie Donaghy

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on the debate set with the BBC's Sophie Raworth

THE ECHO SAYS... Is Rishi too eager to be Prime Minister?

Our message to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss - Don't turn your back on the North

'Don't turn your back on the North' - Northern Echo joins campaign urging PM candidates to deliver on levelling up

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss go head to head

ECHO COMMENT Falling into the wealth trap

Darlington to host Tory leadership debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

THE ECHO SAYS... Sunak or Truss: please make your choice in our poll

Boris Johnson imitates Keir Starmer's hand-flapping at his last Prime Minister's Questions yesterday

ECHO COMMENT Hasta la vista, Boris - but not back in Downing Street

A Sky News picture of the village of Wennington, east London, on fire yesterday as the result of the heatwave. Picture: Sky News/PA Wire

THE ECHO SAYS... If not a message from God, heatwave fires are a reminder of what our next PM must do

Liz Atkinson, left, and Tina Oxley - The Fairy Bikers. Picture: Peter Barron

Ladies of leather - the menopausal women who motorbiked across America

Rishi Sunak at Teesworks yesterday Pictures: STUART BOULTON

opinion Is the North East really 'Ready for Rishi' and Sunak's Britain?

Rishi Sunak speaking at the launch of his campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. Picture date: Tuesday July 12, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Tories Sunak. Photo credit should

THE ECHO SAYS... Rishi slips to third - but we need all the friends in high places we can get

EMBARGOED TO 0001 SUNDAY JUNE 19 File photo dated 06/01/22 of an ambulance outside a Accident and Emergency Department. Lives are being

THE ECHO SAYS... Calling out the ambulance service

Sir Graham Brady (3rd from left) chairman of the 1922 Committee, announces the results of the first ballot round in the Conservative Party leadership contest,

THE ECHO SAYS... Will reality wake up these Tory dreamers?

Rishi Sunak at the launch of his campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister

ECHO COMMENT Well, are we ready for Rishi?

Richard Western, left, and Dave Simmons at Blackwell Grange Golf Club. Picture: Peter Barron

Roaring success – how the Darlington Lions turned into life-savers

Labour leader Keir Starmer during a press conference at the headquarters of the Labour Party in Victoria, central London, after Durham Police said that he and his deputy Angela Rayner have not been issued with fixed penalty notices for alleged lockdown

THE ECHO SAYS... Can Starmer be boring forever?

He's gone but he stays. How can this be?

THE ECHO SAYS... Alice in Wonderland politics: he's gone, but he stays! How can this be?

The George Clooney wedding mug

It’s a mug’s game

Philip Boyle and wife Bridget in Switzerland. Picture: Peter Barron

Chance encounter with a local hero from Darlington – up a Swiss mountain

End the two child limit

OPINION: BP PAUL BUTLER Why it is time to end the two-child limit

Scenes from the Durham Miners' Gala in recent years

OPINION: MARY KELLY FOY Gala's warm embrace for our key workers

Chris Pincher, centre, visits Redcar in 2021 when housing minister

THE ECHO SAYS... The latest in a string of sordid incidents

Ellen White, Millie Bright, Fran Kirby and Rachel Daly will be four of England's key players at this summer's Euros

SCOTT WILSON COLUMN 'The days of growing the game are over - England's main job at the Women's Euros is to win it'

Teesside Airshow

THE ECHO SAYS... Time for someone – anyone – to take responsibility for airshow chaos

THE ECHO SAYS... Tribute to a daring dame who talked about poo

If bare legs are acceptable at primary level and in most walks of life, should they be covered at secondary school for

THE ECHO SAYS... School in a bit of a tight spot over uniforms

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at a press conference during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Lemigo Hotel, during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda.

THE ECHO SAYS... The PM staggers on, with another dagger in his back

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus (right) and Juan Sartori (left) watch on at Wembley ahead of Sunderland's play-off final win last month

SCOTT WILSON COLUMN 'As Charlie Methven might have put it himself, Sunderland's 'p***-take party' is finally over'

Ted Sanderson, 14, died at school in Newton Aycliffe on Tuesday

THE ECHO SAYS... Our thoughts, prayers and hearts go out to Ted's family and friends

The 'Olympic High Jump Gold Medal'

Fool's gold

Dr Fiona Hill speaks at Bishop Barrington school in Bishop Auckland. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/The Northern Echo.

THE ECHO SAYS... A valuable lesson for Bishop Auckland student

Matt Hoss, who makes a living as a mental health worker - and a stand-up comedian

Standing up for mental health

A Northern Rail train

THE ECHO SAYS... We need calm heads, but we don't see any on either side

Teesside Airshow by Dave Dowson, of The Northern Echo Camera Club - a great show, but the region cannot afford to gain a reputation for traffic chaos at big events

THE ECHO SAYS... If the experts were consulted, what did happen at the air show to cause traffic chaos?

Gareth Southgate speaks to the media in the wake of England's Nations League thrashing at the hands of Hungary

SCOTT WILSON COLUMN 'Talk of squandering a golden generation is rubbish - Gareth Southgate is the right man for England in Qatar'

renters' reform

THE ECHO SAYS... Renters' reform White Paper is a step in the right direction

Boris Johnson in Hartlepool with his new MP Jill Mortimer. The levelling up message was very important in the Tories' electoral success here. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT.

THE ECHO SAYS... Are we seeing a start to real levelling up?

Keith Wilson, left, after completing the first day of The Lake District Ultra Challenge, with fellow walker-runner Liam Thornhill, and some young well-wishers

When the going gets tough

Mary Kelly Foy.

THE ECHO SAYS... MPs should be encouraged to visit passport offices, not turned away

David Jones, right, drove dad Allen and son Harry on a 200-mile round trip to see the Teesside Airshow, but they ended up having an underwhelming lunch in Darlington town centre. Not pictured: any aeroplanes Picture: DAVID JONES

Teesside Airshow traffic was so bad we gave up and drove 100 miles back home