Light wanted at end of the tunnel

“I BEG your pardon; I never promised you a rose garden.” – To be fair, they never did – and now two years after our coalition leaders publicly courted in the Downing Street garden, life seems to be far from rosy. (1 comment)

Last updated 14 May 2012
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Respect for runners

A LONG time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Oxfordshire, actually) I ran a half marathon.

Last updated 11 May 2012
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Freeview Willy

WHEN I was growing up we only had four channels on our telly, and even then on my TV set in the back bedroom I couldn’t get a decent picture on two of them. (2 comments)

Last updated 11 May 2012
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Delight over FGH screening unit

AN important milestone has been reached at Furness General Hospital with the introduction of a fully-refurbished, one-stop breast screening unit.

Last updated 10 May 2012
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Bell set to toll for the trolls

EVERY now and again society throws up a particularly unedifying bunch of people. In the 1970s it was football hooligans. Today it is internet “trolls”. (9 comments)

Last updated 9 May 2012
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Whose apathy?

IT always surprises me how, after an election, anyone calling themselves a politician can claim to know why people voted the way they did... and even why they didn’t vote at all.

Last updated 8 May 2012
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Leading the way

IT is now one year since we Labour councillors became the administration of Barrow Borough Council.

Last updated 8 May 2012
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Freeview Willy

I’VE always struggled to see why foxes stir up such a fuss.

Last updated 8 May 2012
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Bus firm must be hit where it hurts

SOME days ago when I was returning from the Far East (of Barrow) on a very large bus, I was pursued around the seats every minute by a lady. (13 comments)

Last updated 8 May 2012
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Last updated 5 May 2012
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Olives, cornflakes and Beadle’s About

HELLO. I’m a bit grumpy. It’s my birthday next week, where I reach a frightening mid-point between two round figures. (3 comments)

Last updated 4 May 2012
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Roads boss needs to view hotspots

AS you may have read in the Evening Mail the other day, we have at last got a meeting “pencilled” into the diary of Mike Penning, the transport minister responsible for the Highways Agency and so the person in government who is most directly responsible for improving the safety of the A590, to discuss the problems on the road.

Last updated 3 May 2012
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Desperate needs

THE statistical chances now of finding missing Madeleine McCann hover somewhere between slim and nil. (4 comments)

Last updated 1 May 2012
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Biomass and the pit?

BIOMASS – great title for a video game, or a horror film maybe? But is the proposed Roosecote Biomass Power Plant scarier than either of those?

Last updated 30 April 2012
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The scenic sat nav journey home . . .

YOU don’t need to be a granny to get lost in your car. You don’t have to be a grandad to refuse to ask directions.

Last updated 30 April 2012
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Optimism of Tories has to be admired

YOU’VE got to admire the Tories for their optimism during these difficult times.

Last updated 30 April 2012
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Families are being hit in the pocket

THE scrapping of school bus passes is yet another example of government policies hitting ordinary families in the pocket. (4 comments)

Last updated 30 April 2012
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Our Alice through the looking glass

“So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.” (5 comments)

Last updated 30 April 2012
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Last updated 28 April 2012
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