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A challenge ahead

12:47pm Wednesday 30th December 2009

AS 2010 looms, are there grounds for optimism in the new year? Uncertainty is still the greatest threat to those who look to the turn of the year for a change in economic fortunes. One certainty we have is that 2009 was a terrible year and there is no consensus about how 2010 will turn out.

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The human view

11:01am Wednesday 23rd December 2009

AT CHRISTMAS, a time of giving, we can focus on doing good. What we do with our lives, the only ones we know we have, is vital. We must do all that we can to create meaning and purpose, to achieve self-fulfilment and, more importantly, to help others do the same. We must strive for justice, liberty, tolerance and freedom from oppression throughout the world.

Taking care

1:08pm Friday 18th December 2009

THERE are few more emotive issues than closing old people’s homes, so the furore surrounding consideration of a plan to close seven homes in County Durham is predictable, if heartfelt.

Fingers crossed

1:50pm Friday 11th December 2009

IT’S difficult to see what more could have been done to push Durham’s bid to be the first UK City of Culture.

Independent view

11:29am Friday 4th December 2009

REGIONAL development agencies are set to become one of the battlegrounds in next year’s general election, with Labour and the Conservatives adopting very different positions on these bodies charged with spending so much of our money.

Lord’s passion

2:18pm Friday 27th November 2009

LORD Puttnam of Queensgate, delivering his sermon from the pulpit in Durham Cathedral last Sunday, could not have been plainer. The threat to mankind posed by climate change was the greatest the human race had ever faced, he said.

Tax or spend?

3:03pm Friday 20th November 2009

NOBODY should be surprised by the scale of cuts facing Durham County Council. Sixty million pounds is a big number, even when spread over three years, but it needs to be placed in the context of the overall council budget. This year, the new unitary county council will spend a whopping £1.2bn.

A nation at loss

12:19pm Friday 13th November 2009

THIS year’s Remembrance period has been a particularly painful one. The deaths of British soldiers in Afghanistan have an added a poignancy we have seldom witnessed before.

Officials’ verdict

1:49pm Friday 6th November 2009

THE recommendation of a Durham County Council planning official that the controversial plans to relocate the two statues of Lord Londonderry and Neptune within Durham’s market place be approved should not be a surprise.

Loving the dark

11:18am Friday 30th October 2009

LIGHTING up public spaces is adding a new dimension to our appreciation of the environment, especially in our cities. Some, like Durham, have the geography and the structures which lend themselves to this form of art.

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