Showing posts with label Lancashire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lancashire. Show all posts
Friday, October 02, 2026

Blackburn Reform councillor accused of farting at rival

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I pleaded the case of BBC News and its  Car crashes into viral shop shutters where gran was hoisted into the air but the judges were stern. ...
Friday, August 28, 2026

North Lancashire Lib Dems call for county police to reveal dealings with Palantir

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Embed from Getty Images Here's a heartening story from the Lancaster Guardian : The North Lancashire Liberal Democrats are calling for L...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Right to Roam plans mass trespass in Andy Burnham's Makerfield

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The Right to Roam campaign is panning a mass trespass in the prime minister's Makerfield constituency to publicise its call for a public...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Eddie Waring's "Dark Satanic Mills End" was at Hilton Park, Leigh

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Embed from Getty Images I've a memory of Eddie Waring , the BBC's rugby league commentator between 1949 and 1981, referring to the ...
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Monday, May 11, 2026

Frank reaction today to the Lib Dem election performance

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"Am I alone in thinking our response to the local election results is a little too self-congratulatory?" asked David Vigar on Lib...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

Fisherman’s Friend factory construction held up by reptile

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Congratulations to the citizen journalists at North West Bylines : they've won our Headline of the Day Award.
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Ponden Hall: Sitting round a hearth with the Brontë sisters

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Ponden Hall, which can be found below the village of Stanbury near Haworth, has been suggested as one of the inspirations for Thrushcross Gr...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Finding the last traces of England's lost river

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When I blogged about the Hulmes Ferry a couple of years ago, I discovered that the Manchester Ship Canal is a canalisation of the lower re...
Monday, February 02, 2026

When Peter Lee took 8-13 for Great Bowden

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Embed from Getty Images Peter Lee , the former Northamptonshire and Lancashire seam bowler, has died at the age of 80. He grew up near Marke...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1449

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"They can mess about with flags and play the national anthem and rail against DEI all they like. But if they shut down your mum’s nursi...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

The Joy of Six 1363

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"The idea of progression in prison is seductive but unachievable. Too many prisons are struggling to get men out of their cells for eve...
Monday, May 19, 2025

GUEST POST The state of our canals - and canalside pubs - today

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Fresh from a canal holiday made difficult by unannounced closures, Peter Chambers looks at the many challenges facing the Canal & River...
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Saturday, January 25, 2025

Can the Rochdale Branch Canal be restored to navigation?

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The Rochdale Canal runs for 32 miles from Castlefield Basin in Manchester to  the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yor...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

The Joy of Six 1306

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"Some strategists are agonising about us reaching a peak, because we’re only first or second in 99 seats - I’d say that’s a nice proble...
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Saturday, December 21, 2024

The Joy of Six 1302

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Clare Coffey watches It's a Wonderful Life: "It is seeing Mary without him that breaks George enough to make him ask for life, as ...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Those Lib Dem targets for the next general election in full

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Mullaney, who was our candidate in Hinckley and Bosworth on Thursday, has tweeted a list of the Liberal Demo...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

On being a member of the Four Tops in an insane place

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There was a headline on Sky News the other day: Four Tops star says hospital put him in straitjacket and ordered psychological examination ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Former MP Gordon Birtwistle says he can win back Burnley for the Lib Dems

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Gordon Birtwistle, who was the Liberal Democrat MP for Burnley between 2010 and 2015, has been chosen to fight the seat again at the coming ...