| Who’s answering the phones? | | 2:37pm Friday 26th September 2008 | |
COUN Simon Henig, the Labour
leader of Durham County Council,
came under fire from opposition
Lib Dems when he unveiled a
blueprint for the new "super council",
which, as we reported last
week, is to assume the title
Durham County Council. Great,
super. |
| All still here? Must have worked! | | 4:07pm Friday 12th September 2008 | | POLITICIANS of all hues are often
guilty of stating the obvious, so it is
probably unfair for Spectator to
pick on one individual. |
| We don’t know what we’ve got | | 1:23pm Friday 5th September 2008 | |
DURING a family trip to York last
week, Spectator found himself impressed
on his first visit to
Durham Railway Station since its
expensive refurbishment. |
| An unpleasant end for pheasants | | 2:13pm Friday 29th August 2008 | |
A POLICE training exercise has
ended in unfortunate fashion for
one of our feathered friends. |
| Taking an unfortunate tumble | | 1:35pm Friday 22nd August 2008 | |
SPECTATOR'S friends at Durham
Police reveal details of an outbreak
of toilet humour at last month's
Miners' Gala. |
| When should there be a vote? | | 2:52pm Friday 15th August 2008 | |
A LITTLE over a year ago, as the
row over the proposed unitary
council for County Durham was
becoming increasingly heated, the
district councils held a full-scale
referendum as they took to the
barricades to fight for survival. |
| Sixties legend still has its appeal | | 2:17pm Friday 8th August 2008 | |
AN Australian film crew has
caused a flutter of excitement
in the city over the last
month and stirred memories of
the darker side of the 1960s. |
| Mutterings from the lion’s den | | 11:55am Friday 1st August 2008 | |
COUN Simon Henig, the leader of
Durham County Council, must
have felt like he was throwing himself
into a lion's den when he
stepped into Durham Town Hall to
open the first in series of 17 public
meetings to debate the shape of
the county's new unitary council
this week. |
| Gardens only fit for a Braveheart | | 12:10pm Friday 25th July 2008 | |
WITH regeneration manager
Harvey Dowdy unavailable, the
man put up by the Durham City
Vision team to explain plans to
revamp the city's riverbanks to
Spectator's unknowing cub reporter
colleague was one Kenneth
Ferguson, a conservation
surveyor. |
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