Mark Green

Radio station overdoing the Christmas tunes

HO HO HO! Anyone had enough of Christmas yet?

Last updated 3 November 2011
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Strictly adults only? I really don’t think so

BBC chiefs must be weeping at the news that hundreds of people have complained about the latest dance by ex-footballer Robbie Savage on Strictly Come Dancing.

Last updated 3 November 2011
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Should public money be oiling wheels of industry?

I admit it doesn’t usually take much to confuse me... Especially when it comes to figures and sums and stuff.

Last updated 3 November 2011
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Magic at Muncaster Castle

What to do with the kids during autumn half-term is always a problem for us parents.

Last updated 27 October 2011
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Be careful with fireworks says Man City ace Balotelli

It's a spark of genius to sign up brilliant-but-bonkers Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli as the face of a “Be safe with fireworks” campaign.

Last updated 27 October 2011
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Banks will get the cash but who will see the benefits?

Last week I had the good fortune to write a couple of stories on unemployment.

Last updated 27 October 2011
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Catherine Tate’s new bovver boy

So Take That hunk (I’m told to write that) Jason Orange is dating top funny woman (as in comedian, rather than strange) Catherine Tate.

Last updated 20 October 2011
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Disease that simply flu away won’t leave you feeling off colour

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but whatever happened to bird flu? Remember how it was going to be the Black Death of the C21st?

Last updated 20 October 2011
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Bridge vandals: Morons with no memories

Navvies bridge photo Three weeks. It took just three weeks before the brand new, spotless Navvies footbridge was vandalised. (3 comments)

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Save indie bookshops from turning into Swindon supermarkets

Monty Python star author and traveller Michael Palin has taken on a new role – to save the independent bookshop.

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Patients must come first now

The bids are in, the decision has to be made: who is going to run north Cumbria’s hospitals?

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Cash crisis sweeps Springfield, home of The Simpsons

Doh! So now it really is official: the world’s economy is truly in meltdown.

Last updated 6 October 2011
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Pale is still interesting

So orange is the new black then?

Last updated 6 October 2011
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It’ll save me how much? And cost me?

Perhaps I’m being cynical (it has been known...), but my first reaction to the news that we’ll all soon be able to drive at 80mph on motorways was that it was a backdoor method of getting extra taxes.

Last updated 6 October 2011
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Junction 34 for Yorkshire (formerly Cumbria)

Soon, signs welcoming motorists to this wonderful county will feature a line through Cumbria, then another through Lancashire, with the final location being Yorkshire.

Last updated 29 September 2011
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