Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 19th June 2018
LADY Mary Wilson, who had died aged 102, was a profoundly private person thrust into the public gaze when her husband Harold became Prime Minister in 1964.
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Colourful rural gatherings
Date: Tuesday 19th June 2018
A WELCOME part of the summer months in Eden is the arrival of a host of agricultural shows and other village events.
Time for new look at new fair?
Date: Monday 11th June 2018
APPLEBY New Fair has polarised opinion for decades. The annual influx of thousands of gypsies and travellers, as well as many more visitors to the town for the peak of the fair, has long been a source of consternation for local residents.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 11th June 2018
BAD week. Two words that hardly sum up how one would describe Cumbria’s current transport issues.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Friday 8th June 2018
EVER since that fateful day, 23rd June, 2016, when 52 per cent of voters decided they preferred life outside the EU, it’s been a case of government by paralysis.
Care home report is painful
Date: Friday 8th June 2018
THE long-awaited report into persistent abuse of elderly patients at the former Beacon Edge care home makes for distressing and depressing reading.
Welcome moves to end bed-blocking
Date: Tuesday 29th May 2018
THE news that bed-blocking remains an issue in hospitals across Cumbria will come as no surprise to those who have experienced the problems when struggling to arrange care packages.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 29th May 2018
SATURDAY evening, about 9ish. The phone rang. It was my mate Dave. “Fancy a long run in the morning. Can you make it for half seven. Ron wants to go round Bass Lake and be back in time for a couple of pints before lunch.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
IT was the headline in the Guardian that caught my eye. “Young Britons have never been unhappier,” it proclaimed.
A response to be proud of
Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
AS shirt-sleeved shoppers went about their business in sun-kissed Penrith on Monday afternoon, it seemed an idyllic late spring day.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 14th May 2018
A “MISSING” hiker in the United States was holed up in a luxury hotel while dozens of searchers were out with specialist snow vehicles, helicopters and cold weather equipment searching for him.
Women blaze a trail in Cumbria
Date: Monday 14th May 2018
TWO groundbreaking appointments have been made in Eden this week — with Penrith welcoming Cumbria’s first female bishop, and Eden Council announcing it is to have a female chief executive for the first time in its history.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 8th May 2018
I’M not anti-monarchy, but I find media coverage of the royals just a bit too sycophantic and sickly for my taste.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd April 2018
ACCORDING to the Money Advice Service, financial behaviours are set by the age of seven, so encouraging children to start taking responsibility for their own pocket money and getting them into the saving habit pays dividends in later life.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 16th April 2018
IS the Lake District turning a bit snobbish about tourism now it’s got this wonderful world heritage status?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 10th April 2018
SIZE, it seems, is everything when it comes to determining when it’s a hill, a mountain or just simply a fell.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
AS a young, wet behind the ears reporter, I remember being immensely impressed when despatched to Penrith’s Gloucester Arms to cover a visit by Border TV’s popular 60s frontman Alick Cleaver.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 26th March 2018
LOOK, we all do it. Complain about politicians and councillors. Often it’s justified, sometimes it’s plain unfair.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 12th March 2018
WHILE we seem to read almost daily horror stories about the activities of paedophiles, there’s a danger of our suspicions getting the better of us.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 5th March 2018
LOCALS can be forgiven an air of triumphalism after the withdrawal of the Thirlmere zip wires proposal.
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