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 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.
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.
Date: Tuesday 1st May 2018
IT was the best day of my working life. A trip to Millom, way out on the west coast of Cumbria, to put things right with the locals I had upset.
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.
Date: Monday 16th April 2018
IS the Lake District turning a bit snobbish about tourism now it’s got this wonderful world heritage status?
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.
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.
Date: Monday 26th March 2018
LOOK, we all do it. Complain about politicians and councillors. Often it’s justified, sometimes it’s plain unfair.
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.
Date: Monday 5th March 2018
LOCALS can be forgiven an air of triumphalism after the withdrawal of the Thirlmere zip wires proposal.
Date: Monday 26th February 2018
LIKE many more, I don’t suppose I will look at my local Oxfam shop in future without thinking of the scandal that has tainted the charity.
Date: Monday 19th February 2018
FOR many of us, as the years advance, it’s the fear of growing old rather than dying that haunts our darker moments. What we’ve been and what we’ve done becomes an irrelevance once we become part of the zimmer brigade.
Date: Tuesday 6th February 2018
MEETING Elvis changed Cumbria farmer Simon Wood’s life forever. Not THE Elvis, but a fellow of the same name who provided Simon with business contacts in China, helping him to set up his Warm Welly Company.
Date: Tuesday 30th January 2018
I’VE heard of clouding the issue, but the Ministry of Defence’s objection to a proposed series of zip wires over Thirlmere is mighty confusing when it comes to the mounting scale of opposition to the proposal.
Date: Monday 22nd January 2018
FOR as long as I can remember, whenever I bump into ubiquitous Herald photographer Fred Wilson we share a greeting that mystifies the uninitiated. “Hods oot weel,” Fred will say. “Sec a laal bit does,” my response.
Date: Tuesday 16th January 2018
IT has been described as a “charming anachronism, a very British institution,” yet, unless you are a sports fan, the martial tones of Out of the Blue probably don’t mean a lot to you.
Date: Tuesday 9th January 2018
ALIENS. So what do you think? Is there something out there, or is it all a load of tosh?
Date: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
THINK you know your sport? Well, what about these names? Rhona Martin, Deborah Knox, Fiona MacDonald, Janice Rankin, Margaret Morton. Remember them. Salt Lake City, 2002. Five braw Scottish lassies who became the nation’s darlings? No? You don’t? Well, think sliding about on a well polished floor while your team-mates brush away feverishly in something akin to an advert for Flash. You’ve got it now. Curling.
Date: Wednesday 27th December 2017
IT was the sort of look that says “you’ve finally lost it, gone gaga, about to spend your remaining days dribbling in front of children’s TV programs”.
Date: Tuesday 19th December 2017
CHALK it up, another victory for the sickly puritans of the snowflake generation.
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