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Leading the way in public bad taste
FANCY a bit of pornography - no, come to think of it, a whole load and cesspit of it? I'm not talking about such as you can get in the sleazy top shelf magazines or the glossy filth done up as "investigative documentaries" to be found on Channels 4 and
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Burning Questions
WHY is Sunderland FC called the Black Cats when the players wear red and white? Newcastle United are presumably Magpies because they are in black and white? - A Hagger, Newton Hall, Durham. BLACK Cats is an official nickname voted for by Sunderland fans
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Prices at the markets
BARNARD CASTLE. - Tues. Fwd: 65 cattle. Cow & calf: Lim to £525 TG Brown & Son; AA to £505 GR&SF Wearmouth; Char to £410 P&J Coupland; Herefd to £405 TG Brown & Son. Feeding bulls. - Lim: £470 JS Luck & Son; £440, £435, £430, £425
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Tasty port on a stormy sea
IT MAY say something for the area's lukewarm gastronomic reputation that only two food establishments were advertised in the East Cleveland Herald and Post. One was a pet shop in Guisborough ("35p off Pedigree Breath Busters") and the other a hotel in
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Burning Questions
WHEN Stonehenge was erected was Britain part of the continent of Europe? - W Sewell, Bishop Auckland. WHAT is the history of Stonehenge? Why was it built and are there any good stone circles in the North-East? - Jeff Wilkinson, South Moor, Stanley. WHEN
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The Good Book of the Durham Alliance League
Left footers or no, on their knees or otherwise, there was always affinity between church and football. When the Washington Amateur League was formed in 1932, for example, the 15 interested clubs included the Church Institute, the Primitive Methodists
