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: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
TECHNOLOGY has moved on a lot since football journalists in the 1880s took a couple of pigeons along to games so they could tie reports to their legs and fly them back to the office. It was the beginning of those old Saturday night Football Pinks and Greens, which are sadly now defunct. Now you can get all the scores you need off the television and Internet.
Date: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
TWO sides to the provision of care for the elderly have been graphically illustrated this week.
Date: Tuesday 15th August 2017
THIS week I came across a funny yet disturbing story about our lack of knowledge and understanding of where our food comes from.
Date: Tuesday 15th August 2017
NEWS that Sainsbury’s staff have taken on Penrith mountain rescue team as their charity partner of the year, as reported in this week’s edition, will certainly be welcome for the charity’s supporters.
Date: Tuesday 15th August 2017
LISTENING to a radio item last week it seems that many social researchers, media commentators and even some politicians believe that compared to the generation of post-war children born well into the 1950s, the current 30-something millennial generation have been badly done to, disadvantaged and treated unfairly compared to the baby boomers.
Date: Monday 7th August 2017
COMMONS Speaker John Bercow’s pronouncement just before the end of term that ties are no longer mandatory in the House came as a fashion body blow to those of us who have drawers full of the blighters.
Date: Monday 7th August 2017
THE news that bovine tuberculosis has been detected in wildlife in Eden has come as a devastating blow to farmers across the district.
Date: Tuesday 1st August 2017
WHEN my little brother first hid behind the sofa because Dr. Who was on our grainy black and white TV, that program was considered to be children’s television and was broadcast at teatime on a Saturday.
Date: Tuesday 1st August 2017
WHERE have all the Sunday morning golfers gone? From tee to saddle, that’s where. Gone to cycling many of them.
Date: Tuesday 1st August 2017
THE way in which council services are funded is being drastically overhauled as the result of the decline in central government grants, leading to local authorities having to come up with their own radical alternatives.
Date: Monday 24th July 2017
THE brutal murder of MP Jo Cox, stabbed and gunned down in the streets of her Batley and Spen constituency in Yorkshire, just over a year ago, came as a horrific shock.
Date: Tuesday 18th July 2017
WELL, there we are. We made it at long last. One of the true wonders of the world, acknowledged as such by Unesco’s decision to make the Lake District a world heritage site.
Date: Tuesday 11th July 2017
TWICE in the space of a few minutes a group of burly, cloth-capped men lifted me off my feet and carried me forward in their safe hands.
Date: Tuesday 4th July 2017
RECENT terrorist outrages in Manchester and London have prompted some people to urge the reintroduction of the death penalty.
Date: Tuesday 27th June 2017
ONE of the most trenchant quotes of the past week came from Peter Canham, chairman of Carers Support Cumbria, whose conference coincided with Carers Week. “The carer is often unseen, unheard and unthought of by the larger population and sometimes by funding groups,” he said.
Date: Tuesday 20th June 2017
THE incomparable Groucho Marx said that “age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Date: Monday 12th June 2017
THERE was always something strong and stable about former Penrith and the Border MP Lord Whitelaw — even to the extent of his choice of luxury item when he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1981.
Date: Monday 5th June 2017
IT’S a sight even in my most alarming nightmares I never expected to see. Armed police patrolling the Market Square in my own town. It’s called reassurance policing — a description I suspect we are going to have to get used to while there remain terrorists out there capable of such depraved acts as perpetrated in Manchester.
Date: Tuesday 30th May 2017
THERE’S nothing more pathetic than hearing politicians claiming allegiance to football teams.
Date: Monday 22nd May 2017
BY any standards the statistics are shocking. More than 2,500 dangerous weapons, including Samurai swords, axes and air guns, were confiscated at schools in 2015-16, and the figures could have been higher as just 32 out of 43 police forces in England and Wales provided data. Some of the culprits caught carrying knives were under five years of age.
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