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Oaf’s oaths are tiresome

LOUDMOUTH Jeremy Clarkson, above, managed to get himself into the papers again this week with yet another X-rated outburst.Read

Size matters when it comes to cash

IT hasn’t been a good week for vertically-challenged fifty-somethings like yours truly.Read

Sorry about the cynicism, Cheryl

SOMETIMES I hate myself for being so cynical, but I had a “yeah, right” moment when I read about Cheryl Cole’s decision to turn down a dream job in the States.Read

The mother of all porkies

STAYING on the subject of ageism, few stories this week have divided opinion more than the death of a woman who became the world’s oldest mother.Read

Duck tale’s ring of truth

FRAUDSTER Paul Page is facing 10 years in the clink, so you can’t necessarily believe everything he says.Read

Grey expectations

WHAT on earth does Bruce Forsyth think he’s playing at fronting a prime time TV show at his age? Brucie is lined up to continue as Strictly Come Dancing host for the 2010 series, when he’ll be 82!Read

Down Under done wrong

I DON’T think stupidity should be rewarded. So it irks me to read about how British backpacker Jamie Neal is poised to clinch a £50,000 deal for his story.Read

Blonde is so bland

I’M not sure Holly Willoughby is doing much to dispel the myth that blondes are dizzy and self-absorbed.Read

Stop the Press?

WHAT emotion am I supposed to feel after reading about the News of the World’s phone tapping scandal?Read

Force kids to eat fresh veg

MOST of the spoilt brats in our schools don’t know what’s good for them.Read

Ozzy’s bit of bad news

IT’S hard to think of Ozzy Osbourne as an animal lover. The walking rock-and-roll cliche’ has a well-documented history of abuse against all creatures great and small.Read

Show goes on despite cruelty

THE death of a man earlier this week at the annual bull run in Pamplona, Spain, has renewed calls for the event to be scrapped.Read

End this state robbery

NONE of us needs reminding that times are tough. Those out of work are facing ever diminishing prospects.Read

Victory for common decency

I’VE never understood how judges in the UK can effectively tear up a pre-nuptial agreement entered into by consenting adults.Read

I’m not in mourning

JOHN F Kennedy, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Princess Diana, everyone remembers where they were when they died.Read

Ban hits jackpot

REMEMBER Spycatcher, the book Margaret Thatcher tried to ban? Thanks to the hype resulting from her failed attempt, it became a bestseller, even though it turned out to be not only painfully dull but far from controversial.Read

BNP in European Parliament is no laughing matter

THERE’S an old Groucho Marx joke about how he’d never join a club that would have someone like him as a member.Read

Fiery Gordon cooks up a storm

FOUL-MOUTHED Gordon Ramsay clearly went too far when he likened Australian TV presenter Tracy Grimshaw to a pig.Read

It’s too late for regrets, Hazel

SMILING assassin Hazel Blears now says she “enormously regrets” the timing of her resignation, insisting she had no intention of trying to destabilise Gordon Brown.Read

Deadly errors

THE heat in the political kitchen is already pretty unbearable. And tomorrow, for Justice Secretary Jack Straw at least, it’s likely to reach boiling point.Read

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