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Offers i can’t refuse

ABOUT this time each year, I gaze around the little bedroom that I use as an office and think that I really must get around to clearing up some of the stuff.Read

Tests of time

THE turn of another year, but also another decade. Gives one time to pause. What's changed over the past 10 years? And will we have any conception of what life will be like on January 3, 2020?Read

Movie to lift spirits

ONCE again the generosity of people in this part of the world has beaten all reasonable expectations.Read

Sent off to scrap

THE other Friday, I’d just finished my last breakfast show before the weekend. I was clearing up my papers and preparing to leave the studio, when the news broke.Read

What's in a code?

FOR some reason, postcodes have been much on my mind this week. Not just because I bumped into my colleague Judy McCourt at the weekend either, though, she is of course the face of the Postcode Lottery in our area.Read

Would you kill for $1m?

CAMERON DIAZ’S new film has been slated by the critics in the US. It’s some sort of sci-fi effort, and I think it is called “The Box”.Read

PM’s road to hell

“THIS week he looks like a man running out of time trying to do his best. The sad fact is Tony Blair, rather like Steve McClaren at Middlesbrough Football Club, was never really taken to his supporters’ hearts. And now the knives are out and are being sharpened. Will what succeeds be worse? We’ll all have to wait and see.”Read

Running into pal on web

LAST week’s column was prompted by Facebook, the internet social networking site.Read

'Unreal' internet danger

THIS column was going to be all about Gareth Southgate, but the news this week has determined otherwise. Gareth was a true gentleman and remains Boro’s only skipper to lift significant silverware.Read

Who are the loveliest leaders?

WHEN you’re hot, you’re hot. And when you’re not, you’re not. That’s how the old song goes, and if proof of that were needed, get yourself onto the internet to see 172 world “heads of state” ranked by their, how shall I put this . . . “hotness”.Read

King Alan rules

THAT popular singer and fine role model, Miss Britney Spears, has been giving us the benefit of her wisdom recently, outlining “10 ways that America would be better” if she were President.Read

Who’ll laugh last?

THE last time I wrote anything about English cricket we’d been marvelling at the stand for the last wicket in the first Test.Read

Music in the park

I HOPE, like me, you were able to enjoy a break of some sort during our last bank holiday weekend before Christmas.Read

Anger over mess

LIKE my Sunday Sun colleague Ken Oxley, I must have changed my mind about the wisdom of releasing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi a dozen times.Read

Right and wrong

HONESTY and right and wrong have been much on my mind this week because of two unrelated incidents.Read

It’s the unreal thing

TRADING Standards departments are always banging on about fake goods.Read

Good for a fight

THERE are always a hundred and one surveys around these days which is good news for me and my “Telephone Trivia Tease”.Read

England have to deliver

THOSE of us who like cricket and who stump up (geddit?) the monthly subscription to Sky will surely have thought that we were getting our money's worth last Sunday afternoon at the very least.Read

Health on my mind

MEDICAL matters have been much on my mind in the last few weeks.Read

Help the kids

OUR radio station charity Cash for Kids at Magic 1170 does great work here in the North East.Read

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