Andrew Martin

Northside - Andrew Martin takes time out from the grimy city

• 15 September 2003

A fine day out, even if returning to London means returning to trouble

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin says bollocks to the York bollards

• 08 September 2003

Bollocks to York's bollards (and its road signs and mini-roundabouts, too)

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin meets David Bowie in Aldwincle

• 01 September 2003

I wandered lost around Aldwincle, mocked by an Alan Titchmarsh scarecrow

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Northside - Andrew Martin goes west for ladies' separates

• 25 August 2003

Ah, Kingsbridge, where no unsold sandwich ever sees a bin

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin dreams about moving further north

• 18 August 2003

Please note my new contact details, from August 2053: the Arctic Circle

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin specialises in August journalism

• 11 August 2003

Socially speaking, August is the most problematic of months

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin prefers a hearty northern breakfast

• 04 August 2003

I have never seen anything in France that you might call proper bacon

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin revisits the exotic Isle of Wight

• 28 July 2003

Palm trees and heat. Travelling to the Isle of Wight ought to require a passport

Books

The long haul

• 21 July 2003

Coal: a human history
Barbara Freese Perseus, 308pp, £15.50
ISBN 0738204005

Life & Society

Northside - Andrew Martin remembers dandelion and burdock

• 21 July 2003

I liked dandelion and burdock. There was nothing humorous in it at all