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: 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Date: Monday 11th June 2018
BAD week. Two words that hardly sum up how one would describe Cumbria’s current transport issues.
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.
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.”
Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
IT was the headline in the Guardian that caught my eye. “Young Britons have never been unhappier,” it proclaimed.
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: 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: 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.
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