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Universal Press launches editor’s blog

Universal Press Syndicate has started a new blog authored by comics editor John Glynn. From the email that I received from Kathie Kerr states that the purpose is to give comic fans a chance to see the inside workings of a...

Sports Personality 10: Bradley Wiggins

Sports Personality of the Year Venue: Liverpool Echo Arena Date: Sunday, 14 December Time: 1900 GMT Coverage: Live on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sport website. Bradley Wiggins joined the group of great British Olympians...

Blackburn beckoning, but Blyth may have to take goals to Newcastle

Blyth Spartans will consult the FA on Monday to find out whether they can stage a potential third-round tie against Premier League Blackburn at their tiny, 4,200-capacity Croft Park ground. The Blue Square North side must first...

FA CUP DRAW: Blackburn beckoning, but Blyth may have to take tie to Toon

Blackburn beckoning, but Blyth may have to take goals to Newcastle By Ivan Speck Blyth Spartans will consult the FA on Monday to find out whether they can stage a potential third-round tie against Premier League Blackburn at...

Welcome to Wayne's world

THIS is the view Wayne and Coleen Rooney will get from the luxury £7m holiday home they are having built in Barbados - rolling emerald fairway, pristine bunkers and the blue Caribbean. The couple have bought a one-acre plot on...

Middlesbrough 0-0 Newcastle: How to sow confusion the Toon way

Blame the media/referees Send out mixed messages Rewrite recent history Joe Kinnear and Mike Ashley must have had a right old knees up this weekend. For his part, Ashley will have been delighted to read the front-page headline...

Bonnie Tyler’s search for cure for her failing eyesight

Dec 1 2008 by Sally Williams, Western Mail SHE’S a blonde, Welsh and sexy singing siren who is worth a fortune. But for years, behind the scenes, Bonnie Tyler has been plagued by having the “eyesight of an old lady”. “For the...

Middlesbrough's erratic Alves saves Joe Kinnear's Newcastle

Middlesbrough (0) 0 Newcastle United (0) 0 By Duncan White at the Riverside Deadlock: Boro's Alves locks horns with Martins during stalemate Photo: GETTY IMAGES So drastic has been the degrading of Newcastle’s ambitions that...

Leeds manager Gary McAllister relishes getting hands dirty against Histon in FA Cup

It may be cramped and exposed to the elements, and he knows full well he will be a sitting target for the cameras and a watching nation baying for a ritual FA Cup sacrifice. Cup sacrifice: Gary McAllister knows all about FA Cup...

Up the state workers: public sector spawns ‘Soviet’ towns

Steven Swinford and Nigel Green THE growth of public spending under Labour has created a generation of “Soviet” boroughs where half the population is dependent on the state for work. Topping the league is Castle Morpeth,...

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