Tag Archives: Newcastle Journal

A Telter Home – by Siegfried Sassoon

BASED on a headline in the Independent, October 4, 2010: Continue reading

Tmomy Atkins – by Rudyard Kipling

BASED on a headline in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, September 30, 2010: Continue reading

They’re grim up North

I KNOW we’re all a bit thick up here Continue reading

Most eye-catching headline of the day (No 2)

FROM the Newcastle Journal, April 21, 2010: Continue reading

Anthem for Domed Youth – Wilfred Owen

BASED on a headline from the Newcastle Journal, April 17:

What passing-bells for these who die as cattel?
Only the monstrous agner of the nugs Continue reading

Spot the missing word competition

THE Newcastle Journal is running a competition. More accurately, The Crosshead is running a competition on the Journal’s behalf. All that’s required is a word or phrase slotting into the headline to render it intelligible. Below are some suggestions to get you going. Continue reading