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Cover-up crusade

STRICTLY COME DANCING champion Alesha Dixon is to present a BBC programme on beauty.Read

Rodent’s grey day

BRIGHT-EYED and bushy-tailed no longer, it seems.Read

Compensation unjust for Lotto rapist victim

LOTTERY rapist Iorworth Hoare should be allowed to keep his winnings. What he did was unforgivable but he committed the crime, did the time, and should be allowed to get on with his miserable Billy No- Mates life.Read

101 number for non-emergencies is a waste of cash

IT is with no regret that I announce the impending death of the 101 number.Read

Kevin Keegan backlash will come sooner or later

THE fickle finger of the Toon Army will one day point to Kevin Keegan and demand his sacking.Read

Bullying problem just overstated

I DON’T normally take much notice of surveys but a recent one from the Samaritans caught my eye.Read

Chef’s fowl ideas

IT would be nice to serve up a helping of Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on a dinner plate.Read

Make npower pay the price for bad service

CUSTOMERS are still reeling over npower’s decision to raise gas prices by 17 per cent and electricity prices by 13pc. It’s a tough world . . . and there seems to be little we can do about it.Read

Not a penny more

I MUST have a heart of stone, but I am resisting all those ads for charity.Read

Where’s wisdom in dentist hols?

CAN’T say I’m impressed with the provision of dental care over the holidays . . . and that’s the “tooth”.Read

Happy banned

IT’S still not a good time of year to be a fox.Read

Shoppers sale-ing into financial storm

ROLL up, roll up, for the bargain of a lifetime in the January sales. You can get two headaches for the price of one as — with thousands of others — you hit the shops.Read

And season’s greetings, Doug

AND a Merry Christmas to you too, Doug Rattray. Doug, readers may remember, is the man behind clampers Hadrian Traffic Management.Read

Rewarding runners-up

WATCHED the BBC Sports Personality of the Year last week. Was it me or were most of the nominations for teams or people who came second best in their chosen disciplines?Read

Cree-mendous

THEY spend the night on the tiles, don’t clean up after themselves, and occasionally get lost on the way home. But you have to love those pigeon fanciers.Read

No business like . .

LADIES and gentlemen, presenting for your entertainment, the biggest star in pantomime. Put your hands together for . . . David Abrahams.Read

Percy moan

A CERTAIN Ralph Percy has objected to plans to build houses in Amble, Northumberland.Read

Mid-table is fine for Toon

I WOULD like £10m, a choice of beautiful women, and six exotic holidays a year. Sadly, that’s not going to happen.Read

Willies won’t work

TRY saying Matteson’s without saying “mmm”. Now try watching their latest telly ad for sausages without thinking, ahem, willies.Read

Let drivers sort it out

THE A1 and A19 will become two of the most gridlocked roads in the country by 2041, according to the experts.Read

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