Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 17th September 2018
I’M not a switcher by nature. Call me naive, call me lazy. But I harbour a belief, one that’s been steadily eroded over time, in fairness.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd September 2018
WHEN it comes to mobile phones I am officially labelled “dumb.” However, I could soon become fashionable in the world of the older mobile user because “dumb phones” sales are rising as more and more of us attempt to escape smartphones and the tentacles of social media.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th August 2018
THERE is nothing new in life, especially when it comes to proposals for commercial development in the Lake District.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ros Brewster
Date: Monday 6th August 2018
IT was more than a quarter of a century ago. Time that I finally forgave John Craven for giving me and a reporter colleague the slip.
Nobbut laiking: Ros Brewster
Date: Monday 30th July 2018
WE have the very man on our doorstep should the prolonged dry spell turn into a full blown drought.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 24th July 2018
THE anti-Trump protests will have served little good, other than to feed the US President’s vindictive side.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 18th July 2018
DID Josh cheat on Georgia, Adam dump Kendall and snog Rosie, and what about that man-eater Megan? And just who is shacked up with a different who since last week’s programme? It’s all very confusing. But readers will be glad to know that I am trying, on their behalf to save them the trouble, to make sense of that modern-day TV sensation called Love Island.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Wednesday 11th July 2018
THERE may be a precedent for the recent heat wave that saw my town, Keswick, hit the top spot of 30 degrees on the national weather on TV. England’s hottest hot spot.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 3rd July 2018
I’M of a generation that remembers when English Sundays were, to quote one writer, “as much fun as watching Albanian daytime TV and as riveting as watching hair recede.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 25th June 2018
DAMNED if they do, damned if they don’t. I have some degree of sympathy with the police in this modern era. Go in heavy and they are accused of overreacting. Stand back and they are seen to be soft.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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