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Community
Destined for a life at sea
TO go to sea as a teenager would be a daunting prospect at any time, but in war? But then David Robinson had the grounding of South Shields Marine School behind him.
Pancake race shows who’s batter than the rest - VIDEO video
CHARITY racers made sure Pancake Day didn’t fall flat when they contested the borough’s annual Shrove Tuesday race today.
A sailor’s life - if you like it or not!
OLD photographs and paintings offer us a tantalising glimpse of what the old riverside town of Shields must have been like as a port in the 19th century.
Can you fill gap in town’s history?
OUR home towns are such familiar landscapes that we think we know them as well as we do our own faces.
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Group ready to remember the victims
A SUPPORT group set up by a South Tyneside man to help families devastated by murder and manslaughter is holding its annual memorial service this week.
Opinion
£20k threat is unfair
WE are always hearing about the terrible things that happen to animals.
2 commentsJust another rip-off
A QUESTION for BT: we don’t rent the pipe that supplies our gas, we don’t rent the cable that supplies our electricity, we don’t rent the pipe that supplies our water.
2 commentsPlease slow down
THIS is a plea to remind residents and visitors to the Fenwick Avenue area of South Shields that it is a 20mph zone.
Not Keynes’s fault
I HAVE to respond to D Thompson’s letter ‘Fears over Inflation’ (Gazette, Wednesday), which blamed Keynesian economics for the current neo-conservative’s policies regarding quantitative easing.
5 commentsHeating or eating?
AS the UK recently grappled with below-freezing temperatures, worrying new research by charity Elizabeth Finn Care uncovered the plight of those on low incomes struggling to keep warm.
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Columnists
A weekend visit from the family
WE had my parents up this weekend. My parents and my sister actually.
Atheist wins silly little battle - but war goes on
CLIVE Bone looks like one of those men with too much money in his bank account, and too much time on his hands.
Young people should go extra mile to find work
UNEMPLOYMENT in the North East has dropped for the first time in six months, bucking the national trend.
NHS reorganisation expensive and pointless
Here’s a statistic that the ConDems are not broadcasting – £1.7bn.
Cookson Country
We get an answer to an exam question
IT has taken a while to return to the subject, but in doing so, I’m reminded of how small even the seafaring world of Shields is.
Here’s the old Grammar School girls
THE words ‘old’ and ‘girls,’ like ‘old’ and ‘boys,’ cancel each other out when put together.
Taking a dip into uncharted waters
IMPRESSMENT into the Royal Navy – the Press Gang – cast a long shadow over Shields and the rest of Tyneside at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Reminder of our lost marine tradition
THE face of South Shields Market Place is to change in coming months with the demolition of Wouldhave House.
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Weather for Jarrow
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 7 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
Wind direction: West
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Sunny spells
Temperature: 4 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 26 mph
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