It’s party time!
What is beneath the gloss? So now that the Diamond Jubilee parties are over and we bask a little longer in the glow, the next party is upon us from tomorrow in the shape of a footballing feast known...
View ArticleGreat North Dog Walk 2012
South Shields hosts another “record breaker!” This is becoming a bad joke, little more than a publicity stunt, even CBBC cameras and crews were in attendance as the Great North Dog Walk organised by...
View ArticleOlympic Torch arrives in South Shields
Our moment to shine I don’t know what compelled me to set the alarm for 06:30 this morning after a decent night of celebrating England’s win over Sweden in Euro 2012, it seemed a rather silly thing to...
View ArticleWhat has happened to South Tyneside Council?
Doing things we’ve yearned over for years! I don’t know what’s going on, South Tyneside’s Labour Party must have had an injection of pragmatism, or they are riding on the crest of a popular wave, or...
View ArticleSunderland AFC close season advice
Note to Messrs. Martin O’Neill and Ellis Short I know I haven’t written much about the club recently, or it’s new fully American ownership and business plan, but the season lurched from disaster to...
View ArticleArmed Forces Day 2012 in South Shields
Click to view slideshow. The Badlanders ride into town I don’t know why, but every time we hold a special commemoration for Armed Forces Day in South Shields we end up with heavy skies and rain, and so...
View Article“Chillaxing” with David Miliband
Former Foreign Secretary takes the sea air in South Shields A lot of people were rather bemused that Prime Minister “call me Dave” Cameron carved out “chillaxing” time at the weekends by losing his...
View ArticleScouting for Girls, and Jenny too.
Click to view slideshow. South Tyneside Festival now in full swing I found it difficult to hide a little disappointment that South Shields would not see any of The Mouth of the Tyne Festival this year,...
View ArticleCardle disappoints at South Tyneside Summer Festival
Click to view slideshow. Short set from former X Factor winner Heard quite a few moans and groans in the Bents Park, South Shields this afternoon as Matt Cardle fans seemed a little cheesed off at his...
View ArticleMore flash flooding problems in South Shields
Ocean Road suffers again. The brief but intense thunderstorm which hit the north east of England this afternoon was not in any way an exceptional summer weather event, the storm lasted less than an...
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