Ceasefire is needed now

10:37am Monday 5th January 2009

AN immediate ceasefire in Gaza is the only way to start to bring a peaceful future to this troubled part of the world.

Fare rise off the rails

9:48am Saturday 3rd January 2009

WE are entering a year in which we have repeatedly been told we will all have to make sacrifices.

Everyone’s a loser

10:11am Friday 2nd January 2009

A YEAR ago hardly any of us had heard of deflation. The prospect certainly was not on the radar of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, nor the Treasury.

Who are the key North-East figures for the coming year?

10:15am Thursday 1st January 2009

IF Barack Obama is clearly the man for 2009 on the international stage, who are the key North-East figures for the coming year?

Vital link to the future

9:28am Wednesday 31st December 2008

DURHAM Tees Valley Airport is one of the UK’s smaller airports but its strategic significance to the region should not be underestimated.

New hope for peace?

9:53am Tuesday 30th December 2008

AS Israeli air raids continued to drop bombs on the Gaza Strip for a third day yesterday, hopes of meaningful progress in the Middle East peace process feel as distant as ever.

Time for a moral vision

9:09am Monday 29th December 2008

NO one needs a degree in divinity to see that unfettered lending and growing indebtedness has led Britain to the brink of disaster in 2008.

The last hurrah?

10:26am Saturday 27th December 2008

UNDERSTANDABLY, shopkeepers and mall managers want to talk up the post-Christmas sales shopping spree.

A burden to be shared

11:17am Friday 26th December 2008

THE identity of the 136th member of the British armed forces to have been killed in Afghanistan during the past seven years will be revealed today.

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Values all can afford

11:05am Wednesday 24th December 2008

POPE Benedict’s denunciation of homosexuality is extremely backwardlooking, misplaced and mistimed.

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