Schools facing tough choices
Date: Monday 21st October 2019
IT will come as no surprise to many readers to be told that more than one Eden secondary school is turning to parents to help top up shrinking budgets.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 21st October 2019
THE soon to retire speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has done his bit to bring Parliament into disrepute during his nine abysmal years in office.
High streets under pressure
Date: Monday 14th October 2019
TRADERS at Alston have spoken out this week about the drastic drop-off in trade they have suffered since roadworks closed the Hartside route for three weeks.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 14th October 2019
PARLIAMENT has lost one of its honourable, intelligent and reasonable voices with Rory Stewart’s decision to quit the Tory party and stand down as Penrith and the Border MP at the inevitable forthcoming general election.
MP’s painful decision
Date: Monday 7th October 2019
PENRITH and the Border MP Rory Stewart will not stand in this constituency at the next general election, he has announced.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 7th October 2019
“WHEN you are not here, please ensure the door is locked.” Yes, think about it. A sign I once spotted in a local village hall.
Protesters’ climate call
Date: Tuesday 1st October 2019
PROTESTERS aged from eight to 80 vented their concern about climate change in demonstrations on the streets and on school fields across the district.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 1st October 2019
I KNOW exactly what I would choose to bin in TV’s Room 101 programme — all those books and CDs and videos under the general title of “wellness”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd September 2019
TREASURE has come to me this week in the shape of a small, dog-eared book, published in 1967 and sold at the princely cost of five shillings. It contains a collection of the columns penned in the period between 1935 and 1967 by the Daily Mirror’s Cassandra — William Neil Connor, later to become Sir William.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 17th September 2019
THE Latin has come in handy from time to time. It has its applications in the words business. But I can’t say the hours spent in class at school have been much benefit in my subsequent life.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 9th September 2019
IT’S that time of the year when copies of the Herald are, to use a modern description, “rammed” with the results from country shows.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
I’M all for saving the planet. Doing our bit for the environment. Cutting harmful emissions. Why, I even take my own plastic bags to the supermarket when I go shopping.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 27th August 2019
NEVER accuse me of failing to look after the interests of my valued readers.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 20th August 2019
“’ERE now,” as nefarious spiv Private Walker might have said in Dad’s Army, “I can make you a few quid, easy.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 12th August 2019
WHENEVER I’m about to start having a go at modern day popular music — so much better in the 60s, I moan — I look back to some of the cultural classics of my youth, such as My Old Man’s a Dustman and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight, and promptly shut up.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 6th August 2019
IT has long been tainted by drug-taking allegations and what it demands from its competitors is verging on the inhumane. Were they animals undergoing such suffering there would be an outcry. But this is, for all its many faults, the greatest sporting event of them all.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 30th July 2019
I’M more than a touch suspicious of politicians, religions and protesters who claim they, and only they, are unswervingly right in the views they hold. That’s when I start asking questions.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
THERE’S no other way of saying it. Britain has become a basket case.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 16th July 2019
HAVE you ever wondered what life would be like and which sport you would choose to play if, by some chance of birth, you’d been blessed with shed loads of talent?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 8th July 2019
TWO of modern Britain’s cultures collided, literally, when a cyclist crashed into a pedestrian who was looking at her mobile phone while crossing a road.
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