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 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.
Date: Monday 20th May 2019
A LONG hoped for upgrade to the A66 between Penrith and Scotch Corner could at last be on the horizon, following this week’s launch of a consultation into a £1 billion program of improvements.
Date: Monday 13th May 2019
APOLOGIES for a tortuous play on a famous headline in a national newspaper following the general election in 1992, but it seems to sum up the events in last week’s local government elections in Eden, the results of which were announced on Friday after the paper had gone to press.
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.
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.
Date: Tuesday 7th May 2019
PENRITH and the Border MP Rory Stewart’s elevation to the cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development puts him at the forefront of one of the hottest political issues of the moment.
Date: Monday 29th April 2019
THE protests in London have left me with very mixed feelings.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
DON’T lump all ageing drivers into the same category as His Royal Arrogance.
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.
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.
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