Theatre Royal hits out at city centre plans for thousands more late night drinkers
Plans for extended opening hours for two Grey Street venues have been met with opposition from Newcastle's Theatre Royal
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Curious Georgie on selfies
This week you’ve had the pleasure of seeing a procession of your online female friends demonstrating the facial equivalent of an unplugged music set"
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Keith Hann on lectures
Why do people pay large amounts of money to hear people recite edited versions of stuff you could read on their websites any time?"
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Denise Robertson on benefit fraud
One woman I spoke to this week is living on cereal and waiting to be evicted for non-payment of rent even though her only crime was to lose her job"
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Tom Gutteridge on Flight MH370
What annoys me about the coverage, though, is that it’s being reported like some Hollywood whodunnit. We’re waiting for the next absurd plot twist and suspect to emerge"
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Bernard Trafford on speeches
Anyone in a management or leadership position must share my periodic doubts as to whether anyone is listening to anything I say"
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Keith Hann on cancer
Ever since a colleague died of skin cancer many years ago I have been boring my local medics into catatonia by subjecting every new bodily growth to their informed inspection"
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Denise Robertson on police corruption
It’s important to remember that while some policemen and policewomen were abusing the Lawrence family, others were preventing terrorist attacks and comforting people in distress all over London"
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Bernard Trafford on Movember
I’ve never felt the need to join Movember: but then, I know that my moustache, let alone any attempt at a beard, would be a feeble and largely transparent affair"
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Curious Georgie on gender specific toys
Girls and boys should indeed feel like there’s no right or wrong thing to pull out when they metaphorically reach into the Toyland lucky dip"
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Tom Gutteridge on school visit
Last March I went to her old school and taught the children how to make hot cross buns. They were a hit with the mums – they all asked for the recipe"
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Denise Robertson on adoption
His latest pronouncement is that the training of social workers in England needs upgrading and some of the students recruited are not up to the job"
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Curious Georgie on floods
I’m starting to think the political parade was more founded in everyone wanting to show off the new expensive wellies they got for Christmas"
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Bernard Trafford on Mark Harper
Mark Harper is an example to us all: not in his rare and honourable behaviour, but in the fact that the ex-minister is one of us"
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Keith Hann on floods
Is the wettest winter since Noah was in the shipbuilding business the result of climate change? Almost certainly. Is said climate change caused by human activity? Quite possibly."
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Denise Robertson on flooding
The undredged rivers became clogged with silt, drastically reducing their ability to take floodwater away and farmers and engineers responsible for cleaning the ditches"
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