Manpower answer to weir question?
Date: Monday 20th January 2020
RESIDENTS of Appleby are rising up in protest at the suggestion that the town’s Bongate weir may be destroyed on safety grounds.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th January 2020
“I’M not ashamed, I am simply doing what millions of others have had to do,” said defeated MP Laura Smith after she had been photographed entering her local Jobcentre.
Feat of engineering
Date: Monday 13th January 2020
THE 100 years which have elapsed since the go-ahead was given for the construction of Haweswater dam have done nothing to diminish its fascination for both locals and visitors to the area.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 13th January 2020
MANY of you would fancy a job like that I know, but what kind of work place is it that freely dispenses pints of beer, good wines and champers during office hours?
Devastating blow for Alston
Date: Monday 6th January 2020
THE community at Alston has been hit by a devastating blow, with the town’s largest employer going into administration just days before Christmas. As a result, more than 50 people have lost their jobs at Bonds Precision Castings.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 6th January 2020
SNOBBISH, sneering, patronising, shouty, Twitter obsessed, an intractable Leftie, a luvvie. Apparently I’m all of these things.
Time for fresh thinking
Date: Monday 30th December 2019
EDEN Council has heralded the launch of a new scheme which seeks to find accommodation for those at risk of becoming homeless.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 30th December 2019
THE column certainly gets about a bit. A reader sends me a copy of a splendid little magazine, the Alston Moor Newsletter, in which Nobbut Laiking is quoted as providing the “quote of the quarter”. It’s taken from something I wrote back in the summer after an article in the New York Times chose to use Alston in illustrating a somewhat depressing view of rural life.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd December 2019
THERE was only one drawback about getting into conversation with David Bellamy — you didn’t need to have any urgent appointments because he simply wouldn’t stop talking once he got going.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 16th December 2019
IF it was a test of the audience’s fortitude just think what it was like for those who came to perform at Keswick’s old Blue Box Century Theatre.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 9th December 2019
OLD Jock could not be called, by any stretch of the imagination, a handsome-looking fellow.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 2nd December 2019
MAYBE it’s the grey whiskered ageing process. That time of life when growing hair from the ears becomes easier than retaining it on the top of head. An old codgers yearning for lost youth.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 26th November 2019
I’VE a strong suspicion that William Wordsworth was no fan of tourism and that he would have been four square behind talk of restricting traffic in busy parts of the Lake District.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 18th November 2019
“WOW, bet you had a great time at the festival”. That was one comment I got this week while I was out shopping in town.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 11th November 2019
DURING a search for some old documents the other day, up popped my long-lost exam certificates from the 1960s.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 4th November 2019
ISN’T it time we all, media and public, cut Prince Harry and Meghan a bit of slack?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 28th October 2019
FIVE phone calls, £4,000 saved. And all just by questioning an elderly uncle’s household bills.
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.
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.
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”.
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