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 18th July 2017
A LARGE part of Cumbria is now a world heritage site. Crikey. It has been so long in coming that we were beginning to think the Lake District fells would erode down to become as flat as Norfolk before the decision was reached.
Date: Tuesday 18th July 2017
THERE has been a broad welcome for the inscription of the Lake District as a world heritage site, and understandably so as the decision taken by UNESCO at the weekend is the culmination of years of hard work by the numerous organisations involved in the bid.
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 11th July 2017
IT’S long overdue, but Eden Council’s proposed local plan — the document that will shape the direction of future development in the district over the next 15 years — is nearing completion.
Date: Tuesday 4th July 2017
SOMETIMES even the author of this column feels as if he is something of a doom monger, forecasting the end of the world and life as we know it when what is probably being predicted is the world as I have known it, and what I am guilty of is a combination of an overactive imagination fuelled by copious amounts of getting on in years nostalgia.
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 4th July 2017
THE Environment Agency’s drop-in sessions at Appleby and Keswick this week have provided a good opportunity for people affected by the floods of 18 months ago to give feedback on the lengthy list of options put forward with the aim of avoiding any repeat of the scenes of devastation caused by Storm Desmond.
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 27th June 2017
RESIDENTS of Penrith are shortly to receive a letter inviting them to show pride in their town by either planting colourful floral displays or just keeping the area around their home or place of work free of weeds.
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.
Date: Tuesday 16th May 2017
YES, you are reading it right. I feel desperate pity for Diane Abbott after her mathematics gaffe last week when she was being interviewed, put on the rack more like, by a radio shock jock with a bit of a reputation for giving his “guests” a hard time.
Date: Monday 8th May 2017
THERE was always something comforting about Woolies and its sudden loss to the high street came as a terrible shock to thousands of employees and millions of shoppers.
Date: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
PARKED up next to a swanky health club the other day — no, I wasn’t visiting the gym, just half-inching a bit of free parking space — and I could not help noticing that every other car arriving was a posh, brand new number.
Date: Monday 24th April 2017
BACK in the day we used to listen to a radio program called Down Your Way which visited towns and villages all over the United Kingdom, speaking to locals and playing their choice of music.
Date: Monday 27th March 2017
ONE of my granddad’s (printable) favourite sayings was “You can’t argue with ignorance”. He was right and yet despite the truth of it I’ll wager that all of us have tried … and failed. There is a lot of ignorance about. Some people are, as the rest of us would say, “Just plain ignorant”, which means they lack manners or tact or any of the social graces. Others just lack any useful knowledge or intellect though there are very few people who are so ignorant that they know absolutely nothing about anything.
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