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Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
THERE is a stark and depressing contrast between retail areas in two Eden towns.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 19th February 2019
I FEAR that, when it comes to assembling statistics about booze, drinkers are the worst people to rely on for truthful answers.
Shining example of empowerment
Date: Monday 11th February 2019
THE growing problem of mental ill health among children and young people is well documented, with hard-pressed schools and health services struggling to offer the levels of support and intervention needed.
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.
Penrith post office future
Date: Tuesday 5th February 2019
OPPOSITION is gathering to plans by the Post Office to relocate its main Penrith outlet from Crown Square to the WHSmith store in Angel Square.
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.
The true picture
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2019
THE outrage expressed at two distressing incidents in Penrith within the last two weeks is understandable.
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 13th November 2018
“FEARLESS as a human antelope”, to see him come leaping down a fellside with “the speed of a Helvellyn fox and the surefootedness of a Martindale deer” must have been an unforgettable thrill.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 5th November 2018
IF there’s one thing that does this old heart good it’s when I hear stories about pensioners — I’m one — rising up against a perceived iniquity.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 30th October 2018
TUMBLING out of bed these autumnal mornings my ancient and crackling arthritic joints sound almost musical. A Rachmaninov piano concerto, played on two sore knees and a bad back.
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