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Punishing idea won’t catch on

THERE was a truly astounding moment that happened this week. Unfortunately — the world being what it is at the moment — you might have missed it. Read

Sleep walking no joke

FIRST things first, apologies to everyone campaigning for the NHS Accident and Emergency Department to remain open at the practically brand new hospital in Bishop Auckland. Read

UK should recognise NHS’s value

THE National Health Service is hardly ever out of the news but, being political conference season, it has been hitting the headlines. Read

A blast from past

A WELCOME piece of nostalgia popped onto my desk at work this week. Although it was a compact disc, itself already “outdated”, it had a picture of a cassette recorder on it. Read

New black hole threat as banks collapse

LAST week, we were wondering whether we’d all disappear into a big black hole somewhere near Geneva in Switzerland due to the antics of a lot of egghead scientists. Read

Is there anyone there?

I’M writing this on Tuesday last. I touched on the vexed subject of deadlines in my previous column, and Kevin Keegan duly resigned between me writing and the column appearing. Read

Football crazy in every way

I TRY to avoid writing about current events in this column. Read

Olympic pride followed by bungling Boris

I WAS in the US for the Olympics, and they only seemed to show Americans winning medals. Read

A whiff of panic in the air

IT’S another one of our relatively few bank holiday weekends and, if all goes to plan, while you’re reading this I’ll be returning from the USA and be back on the breakfast show tomorrow on Magic 1170. Read

Tips for when it comes to the crunch . .

THE credit crunch has well and truly crunched. It’s about a year ago that we started hearing about sub-prime mortgages, and now look at us . . . can’t afford petrol, can’t afford electricity, can’t afford shopping, can’t afford anything. Read

The car ain’t the star on Top Gear

LAST week’s column was all about the electric car. Perhaps the BBC2 motoring show Top Gear may have featured some of these around their test track . . . but if they did, I missed it. Read

Baa-d time for royals in Quebec

WHAT with the credit crunch, Terminal Five, petrol prices, food prices, and everything else, it’s almost impossible to admit that you are going on holiday this year. Read

Me, Madge and Amy

LIFE’S brilliant, isn’t it? There you are bumping along the bottom, running on empty, just getting by, or however you want to phrase it, and suddenly . . . THWACK! Read

Failure not an option

THERE was a new book published this week. Written by Dr Martin Stephen — or maybe we should more accurately say compiled by him — it is The Eleven-Plus Book: Genuine Exam Questions from Yesteryear. Read

Happy now, Mr Harris?

TOM HARRIS has received an almost unanimous hail of abuse for claiming that we should all cheer up and stop being so miserable. Read

Tidy up . . and make it snappy

ONE of the things I like to do when I have a moment, and inspiration strikes, is have a good old rummage at home. Read

Fate of the fete is safe

WHEREVER you are in the North, there’ll be a fete near you. Read

Heat is on for drivers

SUMMER seems to have arrived at last. What could be nicer than to invite everyone round for a garden party or barbecue? Read

Future fortune is just for fun

OUR good friends at Trading Standards will have thought they’ve died and gone to heaven this week if the reports on the television news are to be believed. Read

Make most of our coast

A “FACTOID” came my way last week, which is that huge numbers of us only ever travel a matter of mere miles from our birthplaces during our entire lifetime. Read

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