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.”
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Council’s balancing act
Date: Tuesday 20th August 2019
IT has often been stated that one of Eden District Council’s priorities is to encourage the provision of well paid jobs to stem the “brain drain” of the district’s young people and get them to pursue careers in the area in which they were raised.
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.
Waging a war on plastic
Date: Tuesday 6th August 2019
THE fact that Penrith shoppers enthusiastically grabbed the chance to swap plastic for more sustainable food and goods wrapping outside two town supermarkets bodes well for the efforts of local campaigners and politicians in drastically reducing Eden’s footprint on the environment.
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.
Let’s talk about mental health
Date: Tuesday 30th July 2019
IT’S good to talk — so the saying goes — and this week sees the start of a Herald campaign aimed at opening up the subject of mental health and the support available to anyone who is struggling to cope.
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
SIR Brian Leveson, our most senior criminal judge, probably has better things to do with his time than watch those harum scarum police chase programmes on the box where criminals and joyriders put lives at risk and public servants are assaulted. If Sir Brian does watch, he’ll be acutely aware of the incredibly soft sentences offenders get when their cases go to court, not always the fault of the judges, more likely due to the limited range of options open to them.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 24th June 2019
SAYING sorry and making it sound meaningful is a newly discovered art on the part of politicians and comedians.
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.
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.
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 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.
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