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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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.
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.
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.
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.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 30th May 2017
THERE’S nothing more pathetic than hearing politicians claiming allegiance to football teams.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
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