“Election manifestos have interested me ever since I was old enough to vote,” comments John Maiden.
“Electronics whizz” dad, who was later employed to help produce aircraft black box recorders, secured a tiny black and white TV, says our columnist.
River water quality has plunged, and it’s not just down to farmers to sort it out, Sarah Juggins observes in the Washed Up fortnightly column.
Jeff Hoyle chronicles a storm in a pint glass at the annual CAMRA members weekend, wondering: “Was this a productive way to spend a Sunday morning?”
A revealing watercolour was painted in about 1900 depicting a building which became surplus to requirements in the railway age.
John Maiden, who remembers A Christmas Carol when very young, encounters a ghost from his own past via diaries dating back to the 1950s.
This location is famous for Nell Gwynn, probably King Charles II’s favourite mistress, and flat racing.
A ‘citizen science’ study for a conservation charity says that the UK’s flying insect population had fallen by 60% in the last 20 years.
The playful greyhound unfortunately had to be returned by her owner, due to a change in their circumstances.
Soldiering On columnist and charity council members attended a two-day event for professional media training to help raise awareness.
Guess where Jeff Hoyle and friends have been for the CAMRA AGM. He says it’s where the north begins: “They gave me a jug of gravy to dip my chips”.
Arts columnist Andy Tyler continues his weekly That’s Entertainment round-up.
Washed Up columnist Sarah Juggins says, post-Covid, we shouldn’t “simply accept that schools are over-subscribed and underfunded”.
Local government reorganisation nearly 50 years ago has done his home town no favours, says John Maiden in his weekly column.
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Columnist Jim Harding did this marathon for the first and last time in April 1992, “an amazing experience” – the starter was humanitarian Terry Waite.
Despite officially hitting middle age, Neil Gayton is throwing himself out of a plane and tackling the largest zip wire in Europe.
Columnist Rebecca Fisher says: "When you have a disabled child, you have to think of everything and sometimes, even that isn’t enough."
The Ward Round – modernising programme includes disabled access information to support access for patients, their families and visitors.
"The sweet boys are very inquisitive and enjoy company and watching what you are doing," says the rehoming centre in Paws for Thought.
Jeff Hoyle continues to be amazed by the standard of pubs in the county as he tours in connection with judging CAMRA award winners.
