Sunday, August 19, 2018

Britain is ruled by a bluffocracy

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There's a good article by James Ball and James Greenway in the Spectator this week. They write: Any time we see a politician fai...
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Swinging Blue Jeans: You're No Good

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  The Bluegenes as they where known in the early years, formed in 1957 and, like most Liverpool groups, started out playing skiffle. They pr...
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Six of the Best 812

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"And it was certainly a dramatic landslide – with diners in the National Liberal Club dancing on the tables as victory after victory ...
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North Kilworth beyond the main road

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I don't know if it is more true of this part of the world than anywhere else, but in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire the centre o...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Gumley: Historic and a little mysterious

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Gumley lies eleven miles south-east of Leicester at the eastern end of a ridge of hills which runs from Husbands Bosworth through Mowsley...

‘It’s getting out of hand’ - More than 200 chickens are taking over a Norfolk housing estate

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A chicken yesterday The Eastern Daily Press wins our Headline of the Day Award. I have been asked to point out that the judges al...

It would have been a very poor result if we hadn't gained Knaresborough last night

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There were three local by-elections last night and in one them the Liberal Democrats gained the seat from the Conservatives. So a g...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Rediscovering the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

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A journey along the alignment of the former narrow-gauge railway between Barnstaple and Lynton to discover what remains of this line 83 ye...

Lembit Opik will have to use the bars in space now

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Photo by  Nicolas Gras  on  Unsplash He may be the new prime minister of space , but Lembit Opik is having a less happy time of it down...

Bishop's Castle Railway weighbridge to be restored

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Good news from the Shropshire Star : The Bishop's Castle Railway Society has started work on the weighbridge building with plans to...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Gumley is Leicestershire's Bishop's Castle

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I have worked out why I like Gumley so much: it reminds me of Bishop's Castle in Shropshire. Both settlements have a long main stree...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Great Chess Movie (1982)

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When this documentary was made in chess was dominated by the Soviet Union and world championship matches were hate-filled affairs between ...

No sign of any action to save Northampton's Eleanor Cross

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I last blogged about t he struggle to save Northampton's Eleanor Cross a year ago and there has been no good news since. The Pip...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

Waiting for the end of an over at Gumley

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When you follow the lane past Saddington reservoir you climb a wooded hill and emerge above the village of Gumley. On that high ground...

Six of the Best 811

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"At many junctures in the book, the ability to think historically deserts its author. He describes men such as Hitler as 'short...

Important news on the Leicester Class 27

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The Class 27 that has been in the sidings at Knighton Junction, a mile south of Leicester, all summer has moved on. No longer will the ...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Elven archers and Well-Behaved Orphans

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And so, as piracy is driven from the Rutland Union Canal (and from the hills of High Leicestershire more generally), we bid farewell to Lo...

The M&S stores in Northampton and Kettering closed yesterday

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Yesterday the Marks & Spencer stores in Kettering and Northampton closed for the last time. Maybe M&S is not the flagship it us...
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The Harborough constituency now backs Remain

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More than 100 parliamentary constituencies that voted Leave now back Remain, according to research commissioned by the campaign groups ...

David Kernan: Sorry-Grateful

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The star was David Kernan as Buttons, who had already appeared in Zulu on television in That Was the Week That Was. He was later to become...