Established in 1860, the Herald is an independent weekly broadsheet newspaper covering a large area of East Cumbria, including the towns of Penrith, Appleby, Kirkby Stephen, Keswick & Alston
Date: Monday 14th September 2020
THE coronavirus pandemic has brought devastating tragedy to thousands of families in this country, which surely makes it important that the Prime Minister should be ready and willing to face questions from bereaved relatives.
Date: Monday 14th September 2020
ALREADY — only days into the new term —some Eden schools have been obliged to activate the protocols they have put in place to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
Date: Tuesday 1st September 2020
WHY did the chickens cross the road in such a hurry? Answer: To prevent Reynard the fox availing himself of Rishi Sunak’s two for one, all you can eat offer.
Date: Tuesday 1st September 2020
THE start of the new school term, and the return of pupils of all ages to classrooms nationwide next week will be a milestone in the journey towards normality.
Date: Monday 24th August 2020
YOU won’t believe this I know, but I have become a Taylor Swift fan, and not just because of those improbably long legs. The American singer has brought out a new album, Folklore, with a bonus track dedicated to the Lake District, which she visited with ex-boyfriend Harry Styles in 2012.
Date: Monday 10th August 2020
CORONAVIRUS comes with some pretty awful consequences for those who suffer its worst effects. But I’m beginning to think it conceals another symptom, one that’s affected millions of Brits — collective madness.
Date: Monday 3rd August 2020
WHAT with the weather and the holidays, plus the pesky virus, the demolition of Hadrian’s Wall is probably too big a job for a bunch of socially aware snowflakes to attempt. Unlike a few dodgy statues of imperialists and slave traders it’s also a bit long, 73 miles long, and rather heavy to shift.
Date: Monday 20th July 2020
ANOTHER traditional Lakeland show bit the dust last week. At least in real live format. Some enterprising show organisers have gone virtual this summer in a display of defiance to the virus.
Date: Monday 13th July 2020
“BRITAIN is smiling again” proclaimed the headlines at the weekend as the pubs opened and thousands took advantage of the easing of coronavirus restrictions to enjoy a warm beer in a damp car park.
Date: Monday 6th July 2020
“THERE can be no summer in England without cricket.” Thus wrote the incomparable cricket correspondent Neville Cardus.
Date: Monday 15th June 2020
DESPERATE for a holiday to help you recover from all those grim weeks spent watching daytime TV, growing your hair and wearing pyjamas all day? Book a caravan because that could be your best hope in Cumbria this summer.
Date: Monday 8th June 2020
THE new normal? I’m not sure the old normal was that great.
Date: Monday 1st June 2020
THIS week, but for the infernal COVID-19, I would have been writing reviews for two theatre productions. Sadly Boeing, Boeing has gone, gone, while Wilt has wilted. Two productions which would have formed part of the summer season at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. A season lost in its entirety.
Date: Tuesday 26th May 2020
REVEALING and disturbing. Cumbria police checked, ticketed and despatched whence they had come a number of drivers heading this way prior to the easing of the lockdown regulations.
Date: Monday 18th May 2020
AFTER eight weeks climbing the walls I’ve radically revised my pre-release bucket list. You can forget your Taj Mahal and your Great Wall of China. Forget the idea of flying for 12 hours in a germ ridden tube full of recycled air.
Date: Tuesday 12th May 2020
LAZY Sundays. Months of them. Not your 21st Century Sundays. These were the Sundays of my childhood. Those long-ago Sundays of terminal boredom. What was it the Small Faces sang? “Close my eyes and drift away”.
Date: Monday 4th May 2020
IF I asked you to name me some of the talismanic figures of this pandemic crisis I guess you would include the remarkable Captain Tom Moore and the Queen. Their deeds and words have inspired us. One is 100, the other a mere 94.
Date: Monday 27th April 2020
IT’S the silence. That’s what makes our current predicament seem all the more strange and eerie.
Date: Monday 20th April 2020
FORMER Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett refers to it as “the daily sermon on the mount”.
Date: Tuesday 14th April 2020
IN 1962 the world was a scary place. I was 14, at school, when the Cuban missile crisis broke. The real prospect of worldwide nuclear war. I remember thinking, as our teacher meandered through a history lesson, tomorrow we might all be history.
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