Showing drug users the door
Date: Monday 15th April 2019
PUBLICANS at Appleby have joined forces with police and Eden Council to clamp down on what is described as a growing problem of drug use at pubs in the town.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 15th April 2019
MOST folk would agree that our prisons are unpleasant and squalid places where drug-taking is rife and violence festers. The problem arises when politicians try to come up with an alternative that offers protection to the general public from some of the nasty criminals presently in prison, who would otherwise be walking the streets.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 8th April 2019
SEVERAL years ago there was a bold and flamboyant bookmaker called John Banks whose on-course exploits were legendary among big-time punters. Banks, in a television interview, described his job as “a licence to print money”.
A vote for democracy
Date: Monday 8th April 2019
AT the last elections for Eden Council in 2015, half of the 38 seats were uncontested, prompting concerns over the district’s democratic deficit whereby councillors were returned without opposition.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 1st April 2019
A SMALL group of schoolkids gathered in a Cumbrian city centre with a home-made banner looking more limp by the minute in the rain. A few disinterested shoppers occasionally pausing on a busy Friday morning to see what all the fuss was about.
Changing face of law and order
Date: Monday 1st April 2019
THE changing face of law and order is very much in evidence in the pages of this week’s Herald.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 25th March 2019
WELL, I was warned that she might be difficult. And so it proved. She had no wish to answer my questions, just to plug her new book and then be off. One well-known television personality who turned out to be nothing like the persona she was fond of projecting in front of the cameras.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 19th March 2019
MANY readers are ardent fans of the royal family, but there will be those who have no time for what they see as costly privilege, pomp and ceremony.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 12th March 2019
YOU might say that, privileged to be living in the Lake District, we already have one foot in heaven. Whenever I visit the little hamlet of Watendlath I feel I have not just one foot in heaven but at the very least the toes of my other foot, it’s that heavenly.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 4th March 2019
I CAN’T recall a time when politics was more toxic than now. It’s a toxicity of extremes that is beginning to seep into society.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 11th February 2019
THE Wetherspoon’s pub chain has a record of saving old buildings, architectural beauties and places of historical interest that would have been lost to the bulldozer.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 5th February 2019
THE worst day of my life came with a phone call while I was working, telling me that my brother’s body had just been found in his shed. He had taken his own life that morning and it was my duty to break the news to my elderly mother.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
DON’T lump all ageing drivers into the same category as His Royal Arrogance.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
THE famously laconic comedian Arthur Smith reckons the sign of a true grouch is when the moment you leave the house in the morning you spot something to be grumpy about.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 14th January 2019
THE editor was plainly shocked as he reached for a glass of fortified water to calm his nerves. “I want to introduce more ‘f words’ in the column in the coming months,” I announced. He had jumped to the obvious conclusion when all I meant was these “f words” stood for fun.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 7th January 2019
WHEN it comes to the worst Christmas gifts, I have got a cupboard full of real turkeys, and no, not the edible kind.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 24th December 2018
THEY have become as much a part of our pre-Christmas ritual as the fancy lights, the Victorian fairs, the school Nativity plays in which one of the Three Wise Man inevitably wets himself with excitement, plus the usual rash of inconvenient strikes that wreck any festivity for the travelling public. I refer, of course, to winter wonderlands and bad Santas.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 17th December 2018
IT is rather fortunate perhaps that one-time Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman did not allow his gaze to settle on the town of Penrith.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 10th December 2018
THE only circumstance that would persuade me to endure the misery of watching a television debate involving Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn is to discover how they react to questions when plucked away from the rarified atmosphere of the Commons where everyone shouts and heckles and no-one is actually listening.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd December 2018
THREE hearty meaty cheers for climate minister Claire Perry’s declaration on BBC News that it’s not the Government’s place to tell people they can’t eat steak and chips despite the environmental impact.
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