- Killer goalie offered club trial
- Man charged in crane driver murder
- Hunt ex-aide to face Leveson probe
- Grandmother catches rabies from dog
- Met detective held in bribery probe
- HP issues British job cuts warning
- Calcium-heart attack link found
- Clegg: Greek euro exit damaging
- Euro: Enough is enough says Cameron
- £1.1bn less tax recouped after cuts
Wraithscape
Are there Nazi UFOs in the Antarctic?
I RECEIVED an interesting e-mail from reader Grant Young recently, asking me whether I’d heard any stories about strange building complexes that people had reported seeing in “remote parts of the Antarctic”.
Did Barry see a flock of birds or angel hair?
LAST week I told readers of Barry Hall’s strange encounter back in the summer of 1977 when, along with his parents, he witnessed a bizarre, cloud-like object rise above some trees near their Northumberland home.
Stephen Hepburn
Incompetent coalition’s limitations laid bare
Two years ago, David Cameron and Nick Clegg walked into the most powerful positions in Government.
We’re paying a heavy price for Tories’ mistakes
In recent weeks we have learned that our country has plunged back into recession.
Government set to stigmatise the North East
The budget implodes daily as it becomes more clear the Government is clueless about what life is like for most folk.
Growing Pains
The joys of holidaying at home
IT’S all go as the countdown to the Annual Diffley Holiday ticks louder.
A circle of illness in our house
THERE’S a circle of illness going round the Diffley household. A merry-go round of misery.
Kelly's Eye
Olympics are worth it, despite recession
EVEN in these penny-pinching times, I believe the London 2012 Olympics are worth staging.
Local elections passed many people by
NOW the dust has settled on the local elections in South Tyneside, it’s probably time to cast a disinterested eye on how people voted.
Some home truths about social mobility
CYNICS always say that when it comes to jobs, opportunities and generally getting on in life, it’s not what you know, but who you know.
‘Laddish’ ladies could be reducing their lifespan
MEN have traditionally had a rough deal when it comes to enjoying a long life.
Newbery
Time for an inquest into Silent Witness
THERE was a time when you knew where you were with Silent Witness.
MP’s Murdoch jibes were unnecessary
THAT dull, rasping noise you heard while members of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee were pronouncing on Rupert Murdoch was the unmistakable sound of an axe being ground.
Russell Brand’s virtuoso performance of estuary English
RUSSELL Brand’s appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee to discuss the perils of illegal drugs turned out to be a virtuoso performance in the use of the glottal stop.
Cameron and Osborne - ‘arrogant posh boys, who don’t know the price of milk’
The art of the political insult is not yet dead, but it is on life-support.
Go For It!
Have the courage to go it alone!
THIS week we have a fantastic case study of an Entrepreneur who started up at a young age in the North of England and now owns a rapidly-growing business.
- Newcastle target Barnetta to quit Bayer Leverkusen
- Transfer Rumours update May 22: Sunderland, Newcastle United, Liverpool, West Ham United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and QPR.
- Amalfitano flies into Toon to seal Newcastle deal
- Cats ready to Hammer out McCartney deal
- Teacher died hours after hospital sent her home
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Weather for South Shields
Thursday 24 May 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 8 C to 19 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: East
