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Itttrattp Comment THE TEESDALE MERCURY Wednesday, 1st November, 20001 LETTERS are welcome on any Please send your letters to: subject, but should be brief Letters to the Editor, and to the point. Letters not Tee8dale Mercury , 24 £ m itttr a ttp Comment C r y p t i c c r o s s w o r d intended for publication ers Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8NB, to arrive no later should be clearly marked as FIRST we had the Olympics, then the Paralympics. We such. We reserve the right to phone number. We should than first post on Monday to edit letters for length and con­ appreciate it if handwritten ensure consideration for inclu­ also had the Great North Run, and, on Sunday, it was letter writers would kindly the first North Yorks and South Durham League cross­ b y Ian G alletley tent. sion in the current week’s Please include your full print their names to avoid issue, or by email to: country m eeting of the season (despite the rain). address and daytime tele- errors. [email protected] Although very different in terms of quality and 2 3 4 5 6 7 achievement, all four share the same ethos in terms of De-lighted w ith the support for lantern parade dedication, determination, a healthy, competitive spir Mei 8 it and a fun attitude. their SIR - May I take the opportunity to thank Once again, thank you for an excellent com- Especially the Great North Run. We pictured in last Durhi everyone involved in the Middleton-in-Teesdale munity event from myself and, I’m sure, every- week’s Mercury two Barnard Castle ladies, Anno ice, tl lantem parade on Friday, October 20. one else who attended. Calvert and Lynette Bateman, who ran the race Sham Obviously an enormous amount of thought Miss MELANIE ROBINSON Staid 9 10 1 1 dressed as bumble bees. They raised more than £500 for visit t and hard work had been put in by all involved, Rose Terrace, Macmillan Cancer Relief, as well as many smiles along! including the stunning firework display. Middleton-in-Teesdale. the B the route. Castl< Fellow Teesdale Athletic Club members Gary An M2 13 14 L i g h t e n Atkinson and Gareth Nelson raised £580 for Kidney the W Research dressed as Batman and Robin. al mi Well done to all of them, and the many thousands of prize* u p n o w people who turn out in similar charity events for the Claris er weddings. If there is a great IN the sight of God, and before less fortunate. atten M5 16 17 this congregation... loss in what is now provided The world would be a poorer place without their gen­ meet I write as something of an for intending couples, it is that M r K a n e entric expert on weddings, if not many now face the prospect of erosity of heart. Flora m arriage. being pressured into signing SIR - Paul Kane, who lost the Shoe, 18 19 20 As a cherubic choirboy - a up for an entire package man­ recent by-election in Middleton, Mm mop of ginger hair I discovered aged by one organisation. For writes disparagingly of me in L est w e forget... vohrni wins you many friends and some, booking a wedding may your letters column. Most of for tl enemies - I attended far too mean too great a financial his letters (of which he writes SIR - As Armistice Day have ventured into Southern meetii a lot) in local papers, are 2 1 many for my own soul’s good. commitment. approaches may I remind Africa where we will be visit­ remin On a summer Saturday I It is worth saying that mar­ grumpy in tone. readers of the work of the War ing both the Boer War sites, as fees ir could earn as much as 12 rying “in the sight of God, and Yes, I visited his house and 2 2 Research Society, the well as the famous Rorkes year. shillings. The best of Dinky before his congregation” is a left a note; his dogs nearly Battlefield Pilgrimage Tour Drift of the Zulu War. Bus: toys could be purchased within fine thing to do. barked the roof off. I talked to Organisation for which I am Financial help can be given ACROSS DOWN a five-minute dash from the A wedding in church or several of his neighbours for the local contact. in some cases to assist a visit over fi 1. S h o rt cheque w raps as m ak ­ 2. Just before Christmas this vestry door. chapel can be beautiful simply half an hour afterwards and Since it was formed by a w ith us, and photographs can ing. S ing money (4) brave person set out (10 ) The price also involved because the wedding service, he didn’t come out for a chat. group of serving and retired be taken for those unable to dent a 8 . Borrowed monies are above 3. Bob’s expectation (4) keeping a straight face old or new, says most of what The last twice I’ve said hello police officers, the society has travel. sented cold blasts of air (1 0 ) 4. Is believing this? (6 ) throughout any unseemly men and women of faith ought to him at Middleton Mart, he grown rapidly and is repre­ Inquiries are welcome. them < 9. Monarch at heart of unusu­ 5. Caught in the middle of behaviour. The organist to be ready to hear and do by has ignored me. sented throughout Great Further information and a ffild al vegetable (8) decrees (6 ) reserved the right to confiscate way of committing themselves He also fails to mention the Britain and many countries tour brochures will be sent on floral 10. Start to a letter sounds 6 . The dictionary’s primary fees for any lapses into laugh­ to one another. Costs in and fact that the slip I leave con­ abroad. receipt of an addressed A5 Bowl., like an expensive animal (4) anim al (8 ) ter. beyond church or chapel can tains my telephone number: We now cover both world envelope and a 50p stamp. monoli 12. Half a street leads parcel 7. America meets the Queen It is not, you understand, be small or great. it’s 660781, and every week I wars in France, Belgium, ANDREW NADEN givenl tie (6 ) for employer (4) nostalgia or penury which The Church needs to keep help different people with Holland, Germany and Italy; The War Research Society, and 14. Scouts’ residence inside 11. Flat land central to eluci­ makes me bemoan the decline its doors open and its dealings with the council. and with the anniversary of The Lodge, Wensley, Hazel Gestapo unit. Rascals! (6 ) d atin g (1 0 ) in the number of church wed­ resources for care primed. I shall carry on visiting peo­ the Boer War this. year we Leyburn DL8 4HN. thank* 15. Shoe’s way of talking (6 ) 13. Single lost first; a heavy­ dings. Some words and actions in ple every week, and leaving a 17. Detective Inspector leads weight in Teesdale (8 ) I am not bothered by the church or elsewhere ought to little note when they are out. an authoritarian instruction 16. Cathedral city ere Tex emergence of the right of all have priority on wedding days. Would Paul prefer me to stay (6 ) scrambled (6 ) sorts of places to host wed­ MICHAEL SHEARING a t home? $ e e p £ into So come on Paul, lighten up, 18. Release for nothing (4) 17. Aid Hal arranging a flower dings. I do regret the pressure Parish priest of Cockfield and 110 Years Ago and critics alike. 19. There’s an English prince (6 ) put on couples to have design­ Lynesack. and try to let a councillor get THE annual harvest festival In the role of the Negro sol­ inside, breathing out (8) 18. Angle for a Christian sym­ on with his job. services took place at the dier is Jam es Edwards, who 21. A turned-round way of bol (4) Coun IAN GALLETLEY Navvy Mission Room at Hury, does a finely tempered job. talking. Or is it tay of walk­ 20. Fifty one, member of par­ Old Clee House, at three o’clock, and half-past Lloyd Bridges is equally good Cleatlam . ing? (1 0 ) liament; how floppy! (4) six in the evening. The navvy as his well-met old school AMERII 22. Above trotters (4) I MET another reader of the Brothers Grimm which shows missionary, Mr D. Parsons friend. this. Ba M e rc u ry recently at Desmond how certain consonants are Credit where due THERE is a small prize for the first all-correct entry preached at both services. The took a Howe’s butcher’s shop in related. “T” and “d” are two of services were well-attended, 25 Years Ago their an opened after first post on Monday. Please send your Middleton. His name was these because they are pro­ PRAISE where it is due instead COTHERSTONE Methodist of complaint which is so quick­ especially at the evening one. organise entry, together with name, address and telephone num­ John Nixon, and he wanted to duced in exactly the same way The room, which had been Church was full to capacity on Mike’i ber if possible, to the address shown above. Correct solu­ know the meaning of in the mouth but “t” can be ly given. Saturday evening for the My praise goes to the repainted, and in which has founder tion and winner’s name will be published next week.
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