Easy to pick up, hard to put down

12:11pm Friday 26th June 2009

IN OUR own little way, the Durham Times has been something of a publishing phenomenon.

Why we should take academy money now

1:25pm Friday 19th June 2009

STRIKING teachers seem to have missed the bigger picture in their dispute with Durham County Council over the shake-up of secondary education in the northern part of the county.

City’s best bar none

1:26pm Friday 19th June 2009

DURHAM City has shown the rest of the county the way in its successful adoption of the Best Bar None awards, a scheme which encourages best practice in the bar, pub and club industry.

Status quo is not such a bad result

1:46pm Friday 12th June 2009

IT says something for the good sense of people in the North-East that in a period of political turmoil they kept their heads in last week’s European elections.

The ever-increasing cost of the Old Bill

3:15pm Friday 5th June 2009

THE unsustainability of the police pension system was in the news this week.

Local income tax must not be extra

1:40pm Friday 29th May 2009

AS if there hasn’t been enough nonsense from the House of Commons in recent weeks, the proposal of the Commons Communities and Local Government committee that a local income tax should be introduced will hardly go down well in most households.

Every little helps

5:59pm Friday 22nd May 2009

TESCO might not have been everybody’s idea of a ideal replacement tenant for the vacant Woolworth’s store in Durham market place, but in these straitened times beggars can’t be choosers.

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Why you should not vote for the BNP

5:59pm Friday 22nd May 2009

IT is highly unusual for this newspaper to give any form of political guidance to its readers. It is stated on this page every week that t he Durham Times is independent of political party. It will remain so.

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Is cutting the speed the right solution?

2:11pm Friday 15th May 2009

LIKE so many recent ideas from this beleaguered Government, the plan to drop many of the nation’s speed limits seems, superficially, seems like a good idea.

Thanks to you

2:12pm Friday 15th May 2009

THE Durham Times celebrates its second anniversary this week – and continues to go from strength to strength.

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