The man who crafted The Angel of the North using steel from Hartlepool is knighted.

Goes to show if he got a knighthood simply for that then they're basically given out in lucky bags. Should be done away with anyway.

Beckham and Murray miss out, nothing for Mr Stelling, but FA Chairman David Bernstein a CBE.

Karen Brady made CBE - who has been working as a Government business adviser, what a surprise.

the royal family should be done away with, and the upper classes.....

....Meanwhile some little old lady who's been working voluntary meals on wheels for the last 30 years misses out......what utter bollocks.

Katherine Jenkins and Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud have also been honoured.. Going by that I reckon I'll get honoured next year.

An utter irrelevance, which, like the royal family itself, needs doing away with.

I doff my cap for no bugger!

and God!!!

and the Bilderberg group. Why don't terrorists blow that fucking meeting up?

the meetings are secret arent they?

Thing is, no-one on here is likely to get a knighthood because we've got the wrong sort of name. You couldn't be Sir Demented Twig or Sir Mr I. Everyone would laugh.

Hmm...having said that, Sir Warwick Hunt sounds quite grand.

they seem to know where the last one was.... they might even have to own up at last.

pigs will probably fly first

The editor of the Echo has been given an MBE that says it all really. Was it for journalism or fund raising for Darlo "bucket rattling again" 1883 ?

To be fair, the Echo does a LOT of fundraising for good causes, including children who need funding for cancer treatment etc. And they often run campaigns to highlight social problems in the North-east, at a time when other papers are usually running the 'benefit scroungers' line.

So, I don't mind their ed having the award, if anyone has to have it.

But the fact is that it the normal people who raise 99% of the money yet one person gets the so called honour. I would hazard a guess that Paul Smith has raised as much individually this year for charities than the editor of the echo has

Probably he has. Lots of people do things for charity that no-one else ever even hears about, so the awards are never going to be representative. But the editor of the Echo isn't a bad candidate. Better than, say, Penelope Keith and her ilk.

Can't see it being for saving Darlo, because getting three letters next to your name means you've done something significant for some time, and you've been successful.

However hard The Northern Echo tried to save Darlo Original, it wasn't enough to save them from becoming Diet Darlo.

yep - makes a change from those rags who demonise the lower classes at every opportunity

G.C.M.G = God Calls Me God! as they say in Yes Minister.

I couldn't believe the Queen's gynaecologist got a knighthood and then I remembered about the time he found some feathers during an examination but agreed to keep the story out of the papers. Rumour is that he reckoned there had been a cockatoo up there.

we bow to no 'lovely lovely person'!!!
do they not eat, shit, piss,spew up,and pull a face when they cum like the rest of us?

exactly

our betters....... my fucking ejaculation pipes they are

Yeah! his dad got an OBE for toeing the line and keeping the miners quiet whilst their wages disintegrated during the late 60s/early 70s.

A little before my time, really.

IT'S A PAT ON THE HEAD FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO SERVE THE SYSTEM... A SYSTEM OF EVIL

caps lock!!

The editor of Echo does sail close to the wind sometimes with his views, says it like it is, not the usual Ed who toes the line. You would expect them to back their local team, would be interesting to see what the Mail would do if we were in a similar situation, god forbid!

Because many of the terrorists are in attendance. I agree the royal family should be abolished. Is te queen paying a bedroom tax or getting her benefits cut because of all the unused rooms at buck house?

The meetings supposedly didn't even exist about 7-8 years ago and anyone that claimed they did was labelled a looney. The last one in Watford got limited mainstream media coverage...

I thought I'd infiltrated them once but it turned out to be the Beiderbecke Group. They were planning to take over the world and make listening to trad jazz played on cornets compulsory.

No one fucks me off for royal toadyism like that 'lovely lovely person' Barlow

Never was a display of fishing for a gong more blatant and cringe-worthy

...oh, and his music is SHITE!

come on...you know I meant proper terrorists, not the stage managed ones who appear on the news!!!!!

2014- The year we start to fight back!!