Online blogs on sport, business, law, farming, photography, from the Westmorland Gazette

Blog: Take tick bites seriously!

4:58pm Thursday 16th May 2013

IT WOULD appear that some family doctors in Britain may need a ticking off.

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Blog: Un'appi' with the concept

5:13pm Thursday 9th May 2013

SOONER or later it had to happen. I’m referring to new ‘appiness’ technology developed to monitor our daily sense of wellbeing. There are apps for everything else, it seems, so why not one for measuring a person’s happiness?

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Blog: Mirren, Mirren on the wall . . .

5:16pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

ARDENT fans of our esteemed monarch could be a tad nervous this week. For a start, they may well be concerned that Helen Mirren’s continuing popularity as a Queen impersonator is detracting from the public adulation traditionally enjoyed by the real-life royal.

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Blog: Entering holy matri-money?

4:28pm Friday 26th April 2013

POOR old Brucie! I’m referring, of course, to Sir Bruce Forsyth - the veteran entertainer and Strictly Come Dancing host.

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Blog: Typing, not coal, for Tunners

5:13pm Thursday 18th April 2013

I’VE developed an interest in Tunningley family history, sparked by the discovery that my recorded family line dates back to 1687, the birth year of my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Francis Tunningley. He was a coalminer in Yorkshire.

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Letter: People will always seek excitement

5:10pm Thursday 4th April 2013

Having read the report ‘Alarm over rise in fells death toll’ (Gazette, March 21), my initial reaction was that there are so many risk assessment issues around us in our daily lives at home, work, on the way to and from work and even in our health service that it’s no wonder more people are out on the fells taking ‘high adrenaline’ risks.

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Blog: Some more headline gems

5:09pm Thursday 4th April 2013

MY PIECE last week about headline ‘silliness’ spotted in USA newspapers has prompted two reader responses much closer to home - indeed the journalistic gems my correspondents are keen to share were encountered in this very publication.

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Blog: Headlines silliness shock

4:19pm Thursday 28th March 2013

HEADLINE writing is one of the more pleasurable tasks in the newspaper world, though it’s often quite a skill to get the flavour or nuance of a story right in just a few words.

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Ironic twists in a wooly tale

5:23pm Thursday 14th March 2013

IT IS ironic that the Campaign for Wool coralled a small flock of Cotswold sheep in a central London courtyard on Wednesday just as a row began brewing over the future of the two large Woolsack seats that have occupied the House of Lords for centuries.

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Is marriage safer territory

4:14pm Thursday 7th March 2013

THE observations I made last week about forgetfulness elicited a mixed response.

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Don't forget to be patient

5:13pm Thursday 28th February 2013

IT’S well known that as we age our ability to remember diminishes – although I like to think memory loss is Nature’s way of allowing elderly people to filter out annoying clutter. A sort of biological spam defence.

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The psychological background to my career in journalism

5:00pm Thursday 21st February 2013

WE journalists can be uncaring bods. Over the years, I’ve written countless embarrassing stories about people.

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Blog: Pipe ploy for interviews

5:16pm Thursday 14th February 2013

As pipesmoker, I was fascinated to see the BBC yesterday accused of being ‘Stalinist’ because it allegedly cut out images of the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s pipesmoking in a documentary to be screened tonight (Thursday).

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Blog: 'Can that rodent hear us?'

5:16pm Thursday 17th January 2013

AS a hearing aid wearer, I’m pleased to learn that a drug has been developed that could successfully reverse deafness.

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Blog: We don't learn lessons

2:11pm Thursday 10th January 2013

PRINCE Charles says he is ‘feeling old’ now that he’s expecting his first grandchild this summer.

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Christian Viewpoint: New Year offers chance to look back

2:20pm Thursday 3rd January 2013

New Year is a time for nostalgia and excitement, as we think back over the years and look forward to whatever the coming year has in store.

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An appetite for politics

2:17pm Thursday 3rd January 2013

Britain’s Prime Minister scrambling through mud and water on his hands and knees while taking part in the Chadlington Great Brook Run in the Cotswolds, last week, was not a very dignified sight.

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Don't be hard on Scrooge

1:20pm Friday 28th December 2012

SCROOGE must be one of the most unfairly maligned characters in English literature.

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Another 'quaintirky' story

4:27pm Thursday 20th December 2012

I TRY to be a stickler when it comes to the English language, while accepting that it must always be allowed to evolve.

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I've no desire for any reunions

5:32pm Thursday 6th December 2012

I AM many things, but I’m not a twit. Well, at least not in the sense of being a twitter user.

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