Sunderland and East Durham’s newspaper deliverers get a round of applause from us today after the job and its benefits returned to the headlines.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said the loss of traditional Saturday and delivery jobs is contributing to the youth unemployment crisis by stripping teens of early work experience.
Today, we are looking at some of our area’s paper boys and girls of the past and the great work they did.
It includes a Penshaw teenager who helped a man with a broken hip, a newspaper boy who helped a passer-by who had fallen, and one deliverer who made friends with a jackdaw.
There’s the Seaham grandmother who was still doing her round when she was 81 and the Sunderland paper deliverers who were rewarded for their great work in 2003 with a trip to Flamingoland.
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1. Great work in Seaham
Craig Short (14) Kayleigh Scott (19) Mark Scott (17) and Robert Brown (17) who were kind-hearted stars in 2010. | se
2. Off to Flamingoland
These paper boys and girls were off to Flamingoland on a Summer trip in 2003. Tell us if you recognise them. | se
3. Barry's heroics in 2003
Barry Jones, 16, came to the aid of a man in Penshaw when he had a broken hip in 2003. | se
4. Fab Florence in the news
Seaham grandmother Florence Islip who was still doing a paper round aged 81 in 2002. | se