Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 20th September 2017
ENNERDALE and Grizedale forests are names that have appeared on the radar of rewilding enthusiasts who wish to see lynx reintroduced in this country after an absence of 1,300 years.
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Breathing new life into town landmark
Date: Wednesday 20th September 2017
IT’S one of Penrith’s landmark buildings, yet its historical contents have remained hidden from public view for years.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 11th September 2017
STARTING with a salutary tale this week, one you should consider before having that extra glass last thing at night, or one for the road at the pub or late night party.
Confident chairman
Date: Monday 11th September 2017
IT is to be expected that the chairman of Eden Council’s newly-formed private company, Heart of Cumbria, is confident that it will be successful in generating revenue for the authority as a replacement for central government grants, which could disappear in the future.
Just what I say: Brian Nicholls
Date: Monday 11th September 2017
FOR once it’s a real struggle to find the right word or phrase and even analogy to open this particular item. It is usually quite easy because there is nothing new under the sun, as they say, and whether it be recent or ancient there is usually some historical comparison with modern events, but I can’t find one.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 5th September 2017
BARRISTER, judge, politician, preacher. There is no doubt that Norman Lord Birkett QC was a most remarkable man.
Food for thought
Date: Tuesday 5th September 2017
IT is good news that parts of Eden are to be included in a new enterprise zone that will further raise the profile of the district’s food and farming excellence as well as potentially pave the way for increased investment.
Just what I say: Brian Nicholls
Date: Tuesday 29th August 2017
A COUPLE of weeks ago BBC television’s one o’clock lunchtime news led with an item in which a former director of public prosecutions was reported to believe that the cases in which British Asian men had groomed and sexually exploited young white girls over long periods were, as well as the obvious offences for which they had been convicted and imprisoned, race crimes.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 29th August 2017
BACK in the day, when every kid loved cowboy stories, I had a namesake, Tom Brewster, who was the unlikely hero of a television series that ran in the 1950s.
Loyal supporter
Date: Tuesday 29th August 2017
THE value of volunteers to local sports clubs can hardly have been better illustrated than by the celebrations at Frenchfield Park, the home of Penrith Football Club, to mark the involvement over five decades of one of its most well-known figures.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 4th July 2017
RECENT terrorist outrages in Manchester and London have prompted some people to urge the reintroduction of the death penalty.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.”
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