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Lotto win simply too good to be true

WELL, here’s my column... but really I shouldn’t be slaving over a laptop, since I don’t have to do this anymore. Read

No excuse for top clubs’ FA ‘Cupsets’

LAST weekend, something happened that hadn’t occurred for 100 years. Not an eclipse, other than of my hopes and dreams. Not a bizarre or obscure commemoration, although, heaven knows, there are enough of those. This was to do with the FA Cup. Read

Did you make the most of leap day?

WE had that extra day that you only get once in a blue moon recently — a leap day — which is a chance to do something unusual. Read

As pets, pugs are simply perfect

I WAS pleased that mischievous Murphy won the Sunday Sun Perfect Pet competition last week. He was the adorable six-month-old black pug pictured on page three. Read

Vegging out is out, but veg is in

THIS column is brought to you this week by the makers of those yummy carrot sticks. Or “batons” as my local supermarket insists on calling them. Read

It's now a mad, mad world

I’M dedicating this to all our readers in Uzbekistan. I understand that there’s been a huge demand for The Sunday Sun there for a great many years, so, taking a leaf out of the Premier League’s book, I’ll be popping over there to write some words for a couple of hours just as soon as I discover where it is. Read

Jails are way to reclaim streets

IT was Groundhog Day recently in the US. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know what I mean . . . it’s the same day over and over again. Read

Clever burgers make grade

EVERY newspaper columnist will have breathed a huge sigh of relief this week as the Government announced McDonald’s is to become an approved education supplier, able to award A-levels and training qualifications. Read

Quizzes for a trivia text maniac

OCCASIONALLY on the Text Trivia Tease on the breakfast show, I come up with a subject that rumbles around for a while. Read

Dim future for bright idea

MAYBE it’s just because the days are so dark in January, but I’ve been thinking a lot about lightbulbs. Read

Anyone for a bacon sarnie?

IF you run a cafe, shop, or supply sarnies anywhere near the Magic 1170 offices in Thornaby, don’t read the following. We’re told trade is going to be bad enough in 2008 without this! Read

Return back to basics

UNDAUNTED, here’s the remainder of Old Mother Ross’s predictions for 2008 . . . Read

Up the creek in 2008

IN time-honoured fashion, here’s Old Mother Ross’s predictions for 2008. Or at least the first six month’s worth . . . Happy New Year! Read

What’s the proof of your pudding?

FIRST things first . . . Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, compliments of the season, Cool Yule, have a wonderful Winterval, Solstice, or pagan festival of whatever hue you happen to recognise. Read

I’m a very unhappy shopper

THIS week, more examples of why shopping 2007-style is such fun . . . and a couple of occasions when being a time traveller like Dr Who would have been useful. Read

Clearly off their trolleys

I MET a kindred spirit in the supermarket car park the other day. I don’t know who you were, sir, but I take my hat off to you. At Morrisons on Teesside Park, it was. Read

Alan Ross on religion

AS I get older, I find myself becoming more fervently anti-religion. Read

My lucky number’s never up

I HAVE a confession to make. And it won’t score me any Brownie points with my fellow Sunday Sun columnists. Read

Silly stories to make you smile... or despair

CONSIDERING that we are supposedly at the top of the evolutionary tree, it’s worryingly obvious to anyone with half a brain that that’s what human beings have . . . Read

North star’s TV rant a gem

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ALTHOUGH we all complain about the repeats on television, those of us with the internet have the chance to enjoy a repeat which is clocking up the website hits on YouTube at a rate of knots. Read

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