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Farewell: the end of the Northern Echo era for Mike Amos
After 55 years in journalism, 34 years of Backtrack, Mike Amos’s final column
The new book on Geoffrey Smith and a bit of history on John Burton's football career
The story of Jimmy Scarbrough and his football career
Revisiting Murton to see how far their football team has come
The strange phenomenon of a glaring pitch and other mid-game oddities
The once youngest hat-trick scorer in Football League history watches his beloved Oldham Athletic
Broomfield runners mark their fifth birthday
A two man excursion on the Railroad to Wembley to see Shildon beaten by Lower Breck
Diamond geezer
Matinee performance
Help from The Prince's Trust to paint perimeter of Darlington Railway Athletic club
The replica Darlington nameplate and the "suggestions of skullduggery" surrounding it
Greenswordsmanship
Annual excursion orgy finally gets under way to see Crook beaten in first round of FA Vase
Former England winger returns to his roots signing his new autobiography at Waterstones in Darlington
Healy delighted
Jim Elliott: Death of a Wolves cub
Levels’ best
Guiding light: Dave Thomas’s uplifting autobiography is compelling reading
One door opens….
Mike Amos: Splendid weekend for Willington Cricket Club and its great stalwart
Mike Amos visits the closest football ground to the sea in Europe
Mike Amos: New play chronicles links between Manchester United and Bishop Auckland after the Munich air disaster
Mike Amos: Perhaps a billions-to-one shot, I catch up with the nine-hole wonders
Long-serving former West Auckland FC secretary Allen Bayles has died, aged 71
Mike Floate’s football photographs have filled more than 20 books
Pitch perfect in the Feversham League - despite travails of Northern Rail
Visiting cricketing Aussies suffer another washout - but in County Durham this time
Guiding lights
Sharon Gayter targets breaking men's records following latest epic challenge
World beater
High Plains drift
From Skerne Park to Aston Villa to Cummins: The Darlington footballer back in love with the game
Barnes storming
Means and ends
Fingers outing
Tangle o’ the Isles
Early kick-off - the football season's already started in this town
Winded in the Willows: Village with no pub, shop, state school or church, sa bus service which seldom runs and a railway which doesn’t stop
Ultra-runner gearing up for greatest challenge
When Bishop Auckland’s footballers really hit the heights
A downcomer for Spout
Magnificent milestone for the Wensleydale Football League
Blow by blow account
Ice hockey team secures place in the world elite group
Parental Guidance
McPheat’s feat
Clique and go
Mike Amos: Queen for the day as all roads head to Dumfries
Mountaineer Alan Hinkes may have hit 65 but insists he’s still at the top
Mike Amos: Region's top Watford fan in fine fettle ahead of FA Cup final
Washing cycle: Mike Amos spends a couple of hours in a launderette
Mike Amos: Magic moments as the football season edges to an end