- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
Columnists
Benefits Expert: ‘Are we entitled?’
Q I UNDERSTAND that Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is changing. Will this mean a “witch hunt” on all receiving it or will everyone be given a medical examination?
Linda Colling: Sun, sex and ... parents?
CHEAP and nasty. That’s the reality TV show a Sunderland couple allowed their family to be sucked into.
Mum’s Life: A date with my man
TATE was a real gentleman this week when he took me out for tea on Valentine’s Day – well, he accompanied me and I paid for it!
Alison Goulding: Livin’ fast, cookin’ slow
MY life changed forever at the weekend. From now on I will always register memories as either before or after the seismic event.
Richard Ord
Richard Ord: ‘Women were born to talk’
ONE of my favourite comedy sketches is an episode of One Foot in the Grave in which Victor Meldrew is stuck in a traffic jam with his wife and and her best mate Mrs Warboys.
Linda Colling
Linda Colling: ‘Put the kettle on, sweet cheeks’
Are you married?” I asked the young woman in Penshaw tea rooms. “Yes,” she replied.
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Linda Colling: ‘No shame. No self respect. No ladies’
As far as I remember in the last episode I saw of Downton Abbey, I didn’t hear Lord Grantham ask Jane, the maid he fancied, to “get your knockers out.”
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NO surprise to me that a resounding 80 per cent who responded to the Echo’s daily poll don’t want speed humps.
Linda Colling: Pregnant women treated like ‘lunatics’
WE don’t know we’re born. And that fact of life is being graphically portrayed in Call The Midwife, a BBC1 drama showing the wretched realism of women in the throes of labour and all that motherhood meant in the poverty stricken East End of London in the 1950s.
Alison Goulding
Alison Goulding: Winter is a foul in-law
THE threat of snow has toyed with me for weeks, like a spiteful cat with a soggy, abused mouse.
Alison Goulding: ‘Fashions a crone might like’
A WHILE ago I asked Ma Goulding to knit me some fingerless gloves.
Alison Goulding: Brown Wednesday
WELL done if you’re reading this. If you are, it seems to suggest you are alive and kicking despite the latest Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year.
Benefits Expert
Benefits Expert: ‘Can I opt out of pension?’
Q FROM what I hear at work, redundancies are on the way.
Mum's Life
Mum’s Life: Eureka!
YAY! Tate’s Christmas present finally arrived last week, his black battery-powered Audi.
Mum’s life: Goofy, Donald and Mickey
LAST week we took Tate on a trip to Disneyland Paris. We took him last year but he was too young to really understand, so I couldn’t wait to see his face this time around.
On The Waterfront
On the Waterfront: The Railway King and a time capsule
THIS week, we look at some interesting waterfront trivia from years gone by.
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Weather for Sunderland
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 7 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
Wind direction: West
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Sunny spells
Temperature: 4 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 26 mph
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