Saturday, November 18, 2017

From Jack the Ripper to a lost Leicester cricket ground

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I could not sleep the other night, so in the small hours I found myself looking at a discussion forum about the Jack the Ripper murders...
Friday, November 17, 2017

All Saints, Little Stretton - an Edwardian flat-pack church

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Taken, I would estimate, in the first half of the 1990s, this photograph of mine shows the Edwardian wooden church at Little Stretton in ...

Scenes from the Grantham girlhood of Margaret Thatcher

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Embed from Getty Images The other day I was chatting to someone who grew up in Grantham. He told me two tales he heard from older relative...
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Alan Shearer: Football, Dementia and Me

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Embed from Getty Images He is a bit awkward, doesn’t have Gary Lineker’s ease and wit. But he’s serious, engaged and engaging, and proves ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Should Jeremy Corbyn be doing better?

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Embed from Getty Images If the Conservatives were trying to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister, it is hard to see what they ...

Coal Clough with Deerplay wins Ward of the Week

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Clowbridge Reservoir is in Coal Clough and Deeplay ward - photo © Pete Chapman The only high point of the resignation from the party of...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Badgers stop play at Dudley Town FC

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Spare a thought for Dudley Town FC: there last two home games have been called off because badgers have damaged the pitch. The Express ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Christopher Plummer and James Mason as Holmes and Watson

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A short clip from the 1979 film Murder by Decree , which sees Sherlock Holmes taking on Jack the Ripper. Christopher Plummer and James M...

Six of the Best 743

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The Liberal Democrats should nurture their young candidates, says Sophie Thornton . Joe Bourke welcomes the launch of the all-party par...

The ghost trains from Sheffield to Cleethorpes

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The Brigg Line Group , its website says, exists to promote services on the Sheffield - Worksop - Retford - Gainsborough - Lincoln line an...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Sid James sings and dances

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Sid James was a linchpin of the Carry On films. He appeared in every British picture for 20 years after the war. But have your ever seen h...

Goodbye to Phil Reilly - and a note on Liberal Democrat history

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Embed from Getty Images Phil Reilly has announced his decision to step down as the Liberal Democrats' director of communications in a...

Six of the Best 742

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Caron Lindsay writes on the motion in favour of gender-neutral school uniform passed by the Scottish Liberal Democrats yesterday, She rep...

Phoebe Bridgers: Chelsea

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. This is about the New York hotel not the London football club. It comes from Phoebe Bridgers first album Strangers in the Alps. NME s...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Eric Ravilious & Co. in Sheffield

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This morning I caught a train to Sheffield to see the exhibition Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship at the city's Millenn...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

The North Devon coast in 1954

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Another film from the BFI's Britain in Film collection. Click on the still above to view it on their website. That still is of part...

Six of the Best 741

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It's not clear that the government's 58 Brexit impact studies even exist. But if they do, would it be right for someone to leak th...

Lib Dem shortlist for Cheltenham announced

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Before 2015 being a Liberal Democrat blogger was easy. If you were short of a story about the party, you just googled "Lib Dems...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Guest blogger is Mentioned in Dispatches

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In August Nigel Atter wrote me a guest post about his new book  In the Shadow of Bois Hugo , which is a history of the incredible br...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

The historic factories of Leicester

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A good slideshow showing some Leicester industrial history that now lies derelict and vulnerable to arsonists.
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