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British Gas’s obscene profits

WHAT constitutes an obscene amount of profit? Read

It's still not so angelic

HAPPY birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Angel, happy birthday to you. Read

Silly burghers

IT takes a special kind of stupidity to give £2.7m in Government grants to the wrong Newcastle. Read

Let them go!

LET the Scots have Berwick. A member of the Scottish parliament has laid down a motion calling for the Northumberland town to become theirs. Read

Card makers go too far

HAPPY Valentine’s day, son! I am told that dad-to-son, and son-to-dad, cards were readily available this year. Read

Case of foot in mouth disease

THE things they say never fail to amuse. Take David Baker, deputy chief executive of Northern Rock, on the bank’s success story. Read

Peak practice is perfect

WITH snow back on the ski hills of Europe MALCOLM BASSETT- SMITH asks . . . chalet go or should I stay? Read

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

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