Week six: Lessons in sea survival 4:26pm Thu 8 May 08 Crabtree twins blog: This week we've been all at sea as the main focus of training has been seamanship.
Jack Straw column: There will be an air of sadness at Westminster today as we say farewell to Gwyneth Dunwoody, the MP for Crewe and Nantwich who died last month.
Lancashire Telegraph comment: It’s only a consultation document, but the government appears to be turning its back on the kind of meaningful reforms needed to save young lives.
Helen Mead column: MANY of the e-mails sent to me at work are meaningless twaddle. But I was intrigued this week by one entitled 'New survey reveals Most Seductive Woman of All Time’.
Margo Grimshaw column: I was in a favourite shop of mine the other day, the Ewood Dress Agency and was rather amazed to find it has been there 31 years.
Lancashire Telegraph comment: For far too long East Lancashire has been one of the few areas of its size in the country without university-standard education.
Lancashire Telegraph comment: We witnessed the awful damage water can cause last year when places as far apart as Hull and Tewkesbury were devastated by floods.
Caroline Dutton column: Picture me sitting poised at a laptop, whimsically staring out of the window of a New York apartment, curtain billowing in a gentle breeze, as I write this column.
Jack Straw column: I am sure everyone who has seen and read the news reports about the extraordinary case of the Austrian women Elisabeth Fritzl has been as shocked as I have by the story.
Lancashire Telegraph comment: In the past 12 months there have been numerous examples of thousands of private personal details being “lost” or getting into the public arena.
Nick Nunn column: As tomorrow is polling day we’ll avoid any hint of party politics this week in favour of a suggestion that surely nobody could disagree with.
Margo Grimshaw column: It started after the war. Whatever party has been in power it has systematically and intentionally taken away the need for the ordinary population to think, plan or have any responsibility for themselves.
Lancashire Telegraph comment: AS Judge Anthony Russell said yesterday, the “feral thuggery” which brutally stamped out Sophie Lancaster’s young life raises “serious questions about the sort of society which exists in this country at the start of a new millennium.”
Harry Nuttall column: Darwen town centre is even more depressing now than it was early in the new year, the last time I’d taken a careful look around and counted the empty shops and offices and the empty market stalls.
Adam Hosker's Apprentice blog: This week’s task was perhaps one of the more challenging - the teams had to design, manufacture and sell a product to trade.
