Durham Times Comment - Leader

Great expectations?

11:37am Wednesday 2nd January 2013

AS 2013 nears, we are about to enter the sixth year since the UK and other Western economies went from boom to virtual bust. We have become accustomed to a world of slow or no growth, limited expectation and, in some instances, simple survival. This year did manage to lift the mood in the UK.

Light out of darkness

12:07pm Friday 21st December 2012

WE are all thinking of Newtown Connecticut. The murders of 20 children and seven adults there last week have cast an awful shadow across Christmas 2012.

Change of heart

11:45am Friday 7th December 2012

AMID a generally downbeat autumn statement, the Chancellor pulled the proverbial rabbit from the hat with his announcement about the upgrade of the A1 in North Yorkshire.

Here’s to next year

12:05pm Friday 30th November 2012

THE Durham City Retail Awards, held at Ramside Hall Hotel on Wednesday, were a wonderful reminder that, despite all the economic doom and gloom, the city’s commercial heart has a great deal to celebrate.

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A mammoth task

12:07pm Friday 23rd November 2012

THE legacy left to the new Archbishop of Canterbury by his predecessor can be readily described as something of a poisoned chalice.

Right man for job

11:55am Friday 16th November 2012

WHOEVER wins the election for Durham’s first police and crime commissioner could do a lot worse than make their first job the confirmation of Mike Barton as chief constable.

Mixed blessings

12:44pm Friday 9th November 2012

BARRING a shock of Resurrection proportions, the Bishop of Durham, the Right Reverend Justin Welby, will be announced as the new Archbishop of Canterbury today.

Lack of communication

11:29am Friday 2nd November 2012

AS an exercise in democracy, the period leading up to the first elections for the Police and Crime Commissioners has not been exemplary.

Welcome back Lumiere

10:11am Wednesday 31st October 2012

IT is good news that Lumiere is to return to Durham next year, building on the success of the previous two festivals.

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Nasty for Neptune

2:12pm Friday 19th October 2012

A HAPLESS motorist – let’s wildly speculate it was a lorry driver – had a good go at dethroning Neptune from his Market Place plinth this week.

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