Richard Ord Deputy Editor
  • Sunderland
  • National World

Columnist and deputy print editor for Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail.

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70 Articles
3 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Toe the line and the silver linings will come

​My brain is now finely tuned to seek out the slimmest of silver linings in the ominously darkening clouds in my life.

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3 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: The future of space travel is full of wonder… and spelks!

​Good to see that the Japanese are doing their bit for the environment with plans to launch a wooden satellite into o...

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3 months ago
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RICHARD ORD:

​Good to see that the Japanese are doing their bit for the environment with plans to launch a wooden satellite into o...

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3 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: If parenting were a degree, I'd barely scrape a 2:2

When your kids finally emerge from their teenage years, does that mean you are no longer responsible for them?

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4 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Get 'em sucking on Stilton to end this vape nightmare

​As we didn’t have enough to worry about, Elon Musk is putting microchips in people’s brains.

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4 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Goodbye to the cool and, at a stretch, life-saving blue jeans

In much the same way as the shirt numbers of star ice hockey players are retired, so I retired my jeans this week.

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4 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: If you want justice, get Idris Elba to read the news

If we’re serious about ensuring justice is done in society, maybe it’s time to replace the News At Ten with something...

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5 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: It's beginning to look a lot like... a Satan-loving beagle Christmas

There’s something magical about opening the window of the Christmas advent calendar and witnessing first-hand the loo...

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5 months ago
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RICHARD ORD:

There’s something magical about opening the window of the Christmas advent calendar and witnessing first-hand the loo...

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5 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Behold the air fryer! Life, and chips, may never be the same again

​Remember the days before air fryers? Nah, me neither. They must have been dark days, so painful they are now erased ...

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5 months ago
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Acclaimed choirs to deliver early Christmas present for Sunderland's Seventeen Nineteen venue

Christmas comes early to Sunderland’s Seventeen Nineteen this week with a performance of Yuletide melodies from a hos...

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6 months ago
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South Tyneside choir in hunt for the next Pavarotti ahead of Christmas concert in South Shields

If you think you could be the next Pavarotti, a popular choir wants to hear from you.

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