Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
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Give group a sporting chance
Date: Tuesday 19th March 2019
EDEN councillors have been given a briefing on the lofty aims of the Cumbria joint public health strategy. One of their own targets should be to ensure the survival of an organisation that has helped the health and wellbeing of thousands of children throughout the district and which now faces a fight for survival.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Welcome help for homebuyers
Date: Tuesday 12th March 2019
A “MORTGAGE boost” scheme is being relaunched by Eden Council and Penrith Building Society with the aim of helping aspiring homeowners get their feet on the property ladder, it has been announced.
Valuable life skill
Date: Monday 4th March 2019
EDEN primary school pupils who took part in a young journalist competition run by Penrith Rotary Club and the Herald were this week presented with awards.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 25th February 2019
I SUPPOSE I should be hopping mad that, in just over three years’ time, I could be about to lose my free colour TV licence concession.
Health warning close to home
Date: Monday 25th February 2019
THIS issue comes with a Government health warning — and sadly it deals with an ailment that could not be more close to home.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
DON’T lump all ageing drivers into the same category as His Royal Arrogance.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 7th January 2019
WHEN it comes to the worst Christmas gifts, I have got a cupboard full of real turkeys, and no, not the edible kind.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 24th December 2018
THEY have become as much a part of our pre-Christmas ritual as the fancy lights, the Victorian fairs, the school Nativity plays in which one of the Three Wise Man inevitably wets himself with excitement, plus the usual rash of inconvenient strikes that wreck any festivity for the travelling public. I refer, of course, to winter wonderlands and bad Santas.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 17th December 2018
IT is rather fortunate perhaps that one-time Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman did not allow his gaze to settle on the town of Penrith.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 10th December 2018
THE only circumstance that would persuade me to endure the misery of watching a television debate involving Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn is to discover how they react to questions when plucked away from the rarified atmosphere of the Commons where everyone shouts and heckles and no-one is actually listening.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd December 2018
THREE hearty meaty cheers for climate minister Claire Perry’s declaration on BBC News that it’s not the Government’s place to tell people they can’t eat steak and chips despite the environmental impact.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 26th November 2018
SOME months ago a Government-backed survey invited children as young as 13 to describe their gender from a list of 25 different options. The choices put before teenagers in research for the Children’s Commissioner for England included “gender fluid,” “demi-girl” and “tri-gender.” The list of alternatives was offered as part of a campaign to “find out how gender matters to young people”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 19th November 2018
THE National Trust put its sizeable foot in it again when it covered up art work at its Cragside property in Northumberland, the one-time home of Victorian industrialist Lord William Armstrong, in a bid to encourage visitors to “notice the absence of a female voice” by concealing male representation.
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