Anne Pickles
Cruel and unusual punishment - but what a great idea!
Published 2 December 2008
THEY do say that if you can’t do the time, you shouldn’t commit the crime. A judge in America has taken the premise to heart.
I’m no expert...
Published 2 December 2008
It’s a heartwarming thought, in these economically chilly days, that those to whom we look for rescue from the worst ravages of financial crisis actually have no more idea what to do about it than we have.
Is this the future for us all?
Published 29 November 2008
A deadly virus even worse than man-flu has wiped out 90 per cent of the world’s population and the few that are left are right out of antibiotics.
Klass act goes too far
Published 29 November 2008
Is anybody else sick to death of seeing Mylene Klass on TV?
Now he’s out, what’s the point of watching?
Published 29 November 2008
NO surprise there, then. Applause, applause! Robert Kilroy-Silk was first to be voted out of the jungle.
Gigolo’s secrets revealed
Published 29 November 2008
LESLIE ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson was supposedly Britain’s first black superstar.
Farewell to the original one-stop shop, where David Cassidy once sat alongside lavender talc
Published 28 November 2008
Some people,when asked about their earliest memories, recall joyous childhood holidays at the seaside – with donkeys, ice cream cones, sand castles and eternal sunshine.
More lipstick, lower hemlines: How to read a woman for signs of recession
Published 26 November 2008
There is a tried and tested economic barometer – local, national and global – known as the Lipstick Index. To those astute enough to stay a step or five ahead of dreaded downturn, it’s more valuable an indicator of what lies ahead than any Dow Jones or FTSE... because women drive it.
I vote for Dannii to be kicked off!
Published 22 November 2008
Reality check number three: There is no longer any reality.
Strictly stitched up
Published 22 November 2008
Reality check number one: It’s only a game! No, not football – Strictly! And good old dance-like-your grandad John Sergeant; he’s only a bloke who saw through the stitched up game plan and took his patent pumps home – which was the first bit of recognisable reality in Brucie’s ballroom.
Celebrities? Get me a drink
Published 22 November 2008
REALITY check number two: there are no celebrities!
Just throw lights switch and caution to the wind
Published 21 November 2008
My new friend Tigger and I are very well aware that just about anything might happen – because, up to press, just about everything has.I guess we have to remember that even the first Christmas wasn’t without its logistical problems. Nothing in that particular event went according to plan – likely for the want of a health and safety officer on the scene to study lamp posts in Bethlehem and run risk assessments over local pubs’ outhouse mangers.
If lights switch-on goes wrong expect Tigger dressed as me – or the other way around
Published 21 November 2008
My new friend Tigger and I are very well aware that just about anything might happen – because, up to press, just about everything has.
Baby P: He knew no love, peace, dignity or hope
Published 18 November 2008
If Baby P knew anything at all in the last few tortured months of his tormented little life, it must have been that his was not a good time to be a child.
Birthday-boy Charles revels in his age of enlightenment
Published 15 November 2008
Marking Prince Charles’s 60th birthday with unhindered celebrations would probably be inappropriate. At a time of life when most men are thinking of happy retirement, he still hasn’t got the job he was meant for.
A sad end to a touching series
Published 15 November 2008
WHEN Rolf Harris recorded Two Little Boys in 1969, he had no idea how the words would later haunt him with personal poignancy.
It’s good to know that nobbly veg is allowed to retake its place in society
Published 14 November 2008
The first time in a long time that I came across a wonky vegetable it had pride of place in a sensationally impressive church. And it wasn’t even harvest festival.
Shaken by the detail of ancestors’ sacrifice
Published 8 November 2008
The Great War was supposed to have been the war to end all wars. Needless to say, it couldn’t live up to its promise.
Richard and Judy, make way please
Published 8 November 2008
SHE’S an impressive woman and no mistake. Say what you like about John Prescott – and Pauline surely does – his missus is in a class of her own.
Disturbing truths
Published 8 November 2008
She’s taken some flak for storming in where blind-eyed politicians fear to tread but the Duchess of York has never promised to be anything other than her own woman.
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- West Cumbrian OAP's bid to identify attack dog
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- Taking pride in the best of Copeland
- All white on the night
- No to free parking at Christmas
- The pick of Christmas music
- Grace to stay until new board in place
- Blizzards forecast for Cumbria
- A595 Gridlock worsens
- Driver killed four after cocktail of drink and drugs
- Things look brighter at Frizington
- All white on the night
- Taking pride in the best of Copeland
- The pick of Christmas music
- 1,000 new jobs for £32m Lillyhall development plan
- Fears over plans to rebuild Cumbrian schools
- Cumbrian farmer must serve at least 22 years for killing his wife
