One local newspaper I'd add to your list of good 'uns is the Northern Echo from Darlington. They reported so much about the local football club that the chairman went round the editor's house to personally threaten him …
We’re delighted to have as our guest speaker this evening, Peter Barron, editor of The Northern Echo.
The truth, of course, is that Harry Evans remains the figure all editors of The Northern Echo must look up to
I think the Town Crier fulfils a valuable purpose, and I think it will continue. I think The Northern Echo also fulfils a valuable purpose, and I think it would be a big loss to Darlington.
We are keeping the identities of the site holders under our Monopoly top hats and close to our community chests until the launch. The only two we can confirm are Sedgefield Racecourse, where it will be launched, and The Northern Echo will be in the place of Fleet Street.
I made a point of stopping in newsagents as an ordinary customer, asking for a copy of The Northern Echo, and expressing amazement when they hadn’t one.
As part of our community engagement, we love visiting schools in the area and showing the pupils around the helicopter. It gives the students a chance to learn about the work that the unit does and it gives us a chance to talk to them about keeping safe, which will be focusing on missing people.
It came in so fast – we did not have time to stop it.
In the light of that track record, why on earth is David Cameron determined to scrap these business-led regional powerhouses? Our intention is to strengthen the RDAs, by making them a critical intermediary between local businesses and universities and colleges - a vital bridge, which has been understate...
The longer you make any particular industry dependent on government intervention, the harder it will be to wean that industry off that particular measure. That really does have to happen during 2010.