The pits became redundant. The men who went down those pits became redundant. But the comradeship that industry engendered could never be made redundant, and it lives on in the Durham Miners’ Gala. My dad was one of those men who lost their jobs and their livelihood. The Gala was the highlight of his year, …
“I was on a walk and was passing a pub when I heard that unmistakable chink of metal and the slap of clay. “I thought, ‘No. It can’t be. It doesn’t exist in this part of the world’. “But, lo and behold, it was — and it does exist up here.” So recounts the author …
Two men were responsible for the lifelong love affair/affliction* which has been my relationship with a football club. The first was my dad. He would be left with his two children to look after each Saturday as my mother went out to a part-time job to supplement my father’s wage as a pitman. My father, …
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed an apparent rise in the number of snarling and snapping dogs? Oh, and more dog poo on the pavement. More on the poo later, but let us turn first to the snarlers and snappers. Well, it turns out I wasn’t imagining it at all. Vets even …
So here we go again. A moment of stupidity coming back to bite a politician on the bum. The bum in question this time belongs to Kim McGuinness, a well-regarded figure in the Labour Party who hopes to be elected as the first North East Regional Mayor and who currently serves as Northumbria Police and …
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