Ross Brewster
Ross and Brand: The End. Please
Published 27 November 2008
IT'S time the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross issue was put to bed.
Let King Charles speak his mind
Published 27 November 2008
THEY used to accuse him of talking to the flowers and cottoning on to every barmy new cause.
I’m published and damned
Published 27 November 2008
I HAVE been called many things in my time, but “erudite” has never been one of them until now.
Sex trade focus is wrong, Jacqui
Published 27 November 2008
THIS government is particularly fond of new laws and Jacqui Smith's latest idea is to criminalise the seedy men who pay for sex with trafficked and exploited women.
Gordon’s gambling with our futures
Published 27 November 2008
Nothing sticks in the craw quite as much as the image of Gordon Brown playing the role of saviour of the world’s economy.
There shouldn’t be any F in television swearing
Published 20 November 2008
Turn your television on after 9pm these days and, a pound to a penny, your ears will be assailed by a volley of swear words.
Baby P’s death should make us all look closely at ourselves
Published 20 November 2008
WE are very good at playing the blame game.
There’ll be a new line of work for the sexpert vicar
Published 20 November 2008
WELL, it's one way of filling up empty pews on Sunday mornings.
Good effort, but I don’t need any more Wogan
Published 20 November 2008
LET'S face it, I am a grumpy old git and proud of it. And if there's one day in the year that really winds me up it's the annual Children in Need bash.
Don’t ban cheap booze, clamp down on drunken yobs
Published 13 November 2008
Yobs strut around laughing in our faces, yet all the Government can offer in an effort to deal with the rising tide of drunknenness and anti-social behaviour is to suggest putting an end to cheap alcohol promotions in supermarkets.
It’s not easy being a ref
Published 13 November 2008
EVERY time a football manager like Newcastle’s Joe Kinnear ridicules a “Mickey Mouse” referee, or telly pundits such as the whining Andy Gray go on about the faults of match officials, usually after the 10th replay of an incident, it undermines the poor bloke doing his best on a park pitch on a Sunday morning.
Sam is the real man
Published 13 November 2008
THANK heaven for men like Sam Weekes, the old soldier who gave away a National Lottery fortune to charity.
I’m backing plain John
Published 13 November 2008
HE’S been called a “dancing disaster” but, for all of us not blessed with a surfeit of hair and Brad Pitt looks, I hope John Sergeant, right, wins Strictly Come Dancing.
Keep your noses out
Published 13 November 2008
DEEP joy. At last a health and safety expert who speaks commonsense.
Forget ID cards, those in charge can’t keep anything secret
Published 6 November 2008
It’s exactly a year since a computer disc holding the details of 25 million people mysteriously went missing.
Obama is a real hope for change
Published 6 November 2008
IT’S not my country and he’s not my leader, yet when I woke yesterday to the news that Barack Obama was to be the next American president I could not help feeling a leap of optimism.
Let’s focus on the real terror threats
Published 6 November 2008
IT was a catastrophic error. But the inquest currently taking place into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes is the fifth investigation we have been through since his killing three years ago.
Ban Latin sine die
Published 6 November 2008
MUCH as I hate dumbing down in all its pernicious forms, I applaud those councils who have decided to consign Latin phrases to the trash bin.
Prince Charles has stolen my cool
Published 6 November 2008
IT’S been a disastrous week for my street cred.
Health and safety race
Published 30 October 2008
It’s easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to pillory the organisers of last weekend’s Mountain Marathon, the event which prompted a massive turnout of the emergency services as runners found themselves struggling in the appalling weather on the fells.
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- A595 Gridlock worsens
- Driver killed four after cocktail of drink and drugs
- West Cumbrian OAP's bid to identify attack dog
- Taking pride in the best of Copeland
- Things look brighter at Frizington
- 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
- Taking pride in the best of Copeland
- The pick of Christmas music
- All white on the night
- 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
