New female faces

2:17pm Friday 9th May 2008

BEFORE the local elections in County Durham, we hoped for some new blood to steer the new unitary council through its early days.

Charge compromise

12:59pm Friday 2nd May 2008

AS the consultation process over Hambleton District Council's proposals to introduce parking charges in its four main market towns comes to a close, it seems an appropriate moment to take stock of the extensive debate that has been aired in these pages over the past months.

Election issues

12:54pm Friday 25th April 2008

LAST month, when the notice of the impending first elections to the new Durham County Council was published, we expressed the hope that new faces would come forward to take the county into its unitary future.

Back, brown, green

12:00pm Friday 18th April 2008

WHAT'S in a name? Is back-land always brownfield? Of course not. Backland Developments, however, a firm whose speciality is to build homes on large gardens previously inaccessible behind splendid Victorian or Edwardian houses, would probably like the two terms to be invariably regarded as synonymous.

The reality check

1:24pm Friday 11th April 2008

THE scale of the change in the housing market was underlined this week by a series of statistical announcement which, taken together, amount to a clearly defined, no-argument, decline in the housing market.

One step forward

2:54pm Friday 4th April 2008

IT IS, of course, good news that work will start later this year on the upgrading work to convert the dual carriageway A1 in North Yorkshire into a three-lane motorway.

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New breed required

11:58am Friday 28th March 2008

HERE we go: the countdown has begun for the biggest election for a single local authority ever held in the North-East.

Paying for policing

12:43pm Friday 21st March 2008

THE criticism voiced about a North Yorkshire Police scheme whereby parish councils contribute to policing costs in their area is understandable.

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Tread carefully

1:07pm Friday 14th March 2008

NOW well into the consultation period over the latest wave of proposed post office closures, we can see where the battles will be fought to save individual branches.

Tax on drunkenness

1:39pm Friday 7th March 2008

THE changes to Britain's licensing laws were much feared. The introduction of 24-hour drinking was thought to be the herald of unrestrained disorder.

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