Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 17th September 2018
I’M not a switcher by nature. Call me naive, call me lazy. But I harbour a belief, one that’s been steadily eroded over time, in fairness.
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Representation, not consultation
Date: Monday 17th September 2018
THE ramifications of this year’s Appleby horse fair are putting increased pressure on the multi-agency group which oversees the historic annual gathering of gypsies and travellers.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 12th September 2018
MORE than a million more people aged 65 and over, a rise of a third, will need round-the-clock care by 2035. The number of over-85s requiring 24-hour care in England will almost double to 446,000 according to a study in The Lancet.
Big plans need big response
Date: Wednesday 12th September 2018
THE wait is over. The final draft of Penrith’s masterplan has been revealed for public consumption — and not much has changed since a leaked version appeared in this newspaper in mid-summer.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd September 2018
WHEN it comes to mobile phones I am officially labelled “dumb.” However, I could soon become fashionable in the world of the older mobile user because “dumb phones” sales are rising as more and more of us attempt to escape smartphones and the tentacles of social media.
Latest turn in dangerous road
Date: Monday 3rd September 2018
THE never-ending litany of misery that seems to shadow the A66 grew even longer this week, with the jailing of a truck driver found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a crash on the road two years ago.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 28th August 2018
PRISONS minister Rory Stewart is that rarity in modern politics, someone who not only makes a clear declaration of policy, but stands by it to the extent that he will resign if he is not successful in its implementation.
Going with the flow
Date: Tuesday 28th August 2018
MIXED messages emerge from Alston Moor, where a river clean-up scheme is being hailed as a saviour of one of the worst polluted stretches of water in England on one hand, and a dangerous experiment on the other.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th August 2018
THERE is nothing new in life, especially when it comes to proposals for commercial development in the Lake District.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 13th August 2018
A GROUP of locals are knitting hundreds, if not thousands, of poppies in preparation for a display in church on Remembrance Sunday which this year has additional poignancy as it coincides with the centenary of the First World War coming to an end.
Nobbut laiking: Ros Brewster
Date: Monday 6th August 2018
IT was more than a quarter of a century ago. Time that I finally forgave John Craven for giving me and a reporter colleague the slip.
Nobbut laiking: Ros Brewster
Date: Monday 30th July 2018
WE have the very man on our doorstep should the prolonged dry spell turn into a full blown drought.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 24th July 2018
THE anti-Trump protests will have served little good, other than to feed the US President’s vindictive side.
Care home answers needed
Date: Tuesday 24th July 2018
THE loss of nearly 100 care home beds in Eden over the past three years was flagged up at a meeting of district councillors, where questions were asked about county council plans for care of the elderly in future.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 18th July 2018
DID Josh cheat on Georgia, Adam dump Kendall and snog Rosie, and what about that man-eater Megan? And just who is shacked up with a different who since last week’s programme? It’s all very confusing. But readers will be glad to know that I am trying, on their behalf to save them the trouble, to make sense of that modern-day TV sensation called Love Island.
Beacon will have lots of friends
Date: Wednesday 18th July 2018
THE Beacon is such an integral part of Penrith that it is little wonder hundreds of people have already voiced their support for a campaign aimed at safeguarding it from future development.
Planning for the future
Date: Wednesday 11th July 2018
IT is unfortunate that two sets of proposals for the future of Penrith have appeared at the same time, allowing the potential for confusion among residents.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 11th July 2018
THERE may be a precedent for the recent heat wave that saw my town, Keswick, hit the top spot of 30 degrees on the national weather on TV. England’s hottest hot spot.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 3rd July 2018
I’M of a generation that remembers when English Sundays were, to quote one writer, “as much fun as watching Albanian daytime TV and as riveting as watching hair recede.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 25th June 2018
DAMNED if they do, damned if they don’t. I have some degree of sympathy with the police in this modern era. Go in heavy and they are accused of overreacting. Stand back and they are seen to be soft.
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