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: 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.
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.
Date: Monday 31st December 2018
AS we get older our hair falls out, our knees creak, we get out of puff and we also notice a gradual diminution in the number of Christmas cards we have on display.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
CUMBRIA must be the most telly-visual part of the entire country.
Date: Tuesday 9th October 2018
THE pen was silver and many of the articles he wrote were threaded with gold.
Date: Monday 1st October 2018
RUTH Davidson has ruled herself out of the political power game south of the Border. She wants a life and politics and politicians bear little relation to reality. In short, she’s too good to lead the squabbling Tory party and too good to be Prime Minister.
Date: Wednesday 12th September 2018
MORE than a million more people aged 65 and over, a rise of a third, will need round-the-clock care by 2035. The number of over-85s requiring 24-hour care in England will almost double to 446,000 according to a study in The Lancet.
Date: Tuesday 28th August 2018
PRISONS minister Rory Stewart is that rarity in modern politics, someone who not only makes a clear declaration of policy, but stands by it to the extent that he will resign if he is not successful in its implementation.
Date: Monday 20th August 2018
THERE is nothing new in life, especially when it comes to proposals for commercial development in the Lake District.
Date: Monday 13th August 2018
A GROUP of locals are knitting hundreds, if not thousands, of poppies in preparation for a display in church on Remembrance Sunday which this year has additional poignancy as it coincides with the centenary of the First World War coming to an end.
Date: Monday 30th July 2018
WE have the very man on our doorstep should the prolonged dry spell turn into a full blown drought.
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