KEVIN MAGUIRE
When I talk about going home to the North East my wife is occasionally forced to remind me that I live with her and our kids in London.
South Shields, on Tyneside, still pulls on my heart strings 40 years since I moved away.
My mam has a different house now but a council maisonette in Orwell Close, on the Biddick Hall estate, will always be special.
Crammed into a room with two brothers, bagging top bunk as top dog, I did homework on my bed listening to rowdy phone-ins and punk on the radio. The revolts of the second half of the 1970s were a glorious age in which to be a teenager. Oh, to wind back the clock.