Royal lift for rural communities
Date: Monday 17th June 2019
TUESDAY’S visit to Cumbria by popular royals the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aimed to shine a light on the fortitude and spirit of rural and farming communities.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 17th June 2019
EVER since the last series of W1A finished — the comedy about life behind the scenes at the BBC with all its non-jobs, marketing gaffes and management speak — I’ve been feeling a bit lost in the search for something genuinely new and funny on the box.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 10th June 2019
I HOPE Rory Stewart does not become the next leader of the strife-torn Conservative Party and thus our next Prime Minister. The reason? He’s far too decent and principled for the party in its present manifestation.
A different approach
Date: Monday 10th June 2019
A RADICAL change of approach to policing at this year’s Appleby horse fair, during which many thousands of visitors descend on the town and surrounding areas, appears on the whole to have produced a favourable response from the local community.
A win-win for Penrith
Date: Tuesday 4th June 2019
NEWS that the organisers of Penrith show and Kendal Calling have agreed a sponsorship arrangement will be music to the ears of those who have been caught up in traffic jams when the two major events have been held on the same weekend.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 4th June 2019
I DON’T wish to spoil it too much for the kids who were out on strike from school on Friday, protesting against inaction over climate change, but they may have a longer wait than they anticipate before they convince some of my generation of the urgency of their call. Indeed they might have to wait until we’ve shuffled off this failing mortal coil.
Vulnerable children deserve better
Date: Tuesday 28th May 2019
THAT parents in Cumbria are choosing to educate children with special educational needs or disabilities (Send) at home because they have lost faith in the system is a sad indictment of the way in which vulnerable youngsters and those caring for them have been treated in the county.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th May 2019
CASTING my mind back to childhood, I remember we had a modest sized bookcase and an equally modest quantity of books to adorn it. But I do recall one notable feature — a whole row of Just William books.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 13th May 2019
IT was one of the most dramatic incidents I’ve covered in my long years as a reporter — and furthermore I had a bird’s eye view as events unfolded on one otherwise quiet midweek afternoon on the outskirts of Keswick.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 7th May 2019
MY mother, then aged about 10, remembered playing out with the little boy from next door. The following day they came with a horse and cart to take away his body.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 29th April 2019
THE protests in London have left me with very mixed feelings.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
THE threats which have been issued to several of our MPs, via social media, are outrageous, disgusting and, no matter how much they have failed us over Brexit, utterly unwarranted.
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”.
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.
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.
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