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Nick Nunn »
Acts of violence seem to get more random
Posted at 11:26am Wednesday 9th July 2008
Nick Nunn column: Those regular TV programmes chronicling different decades would label me as a child of the ‘make love not war’ generation.
Margo »
Here is my healthy way to run hospitals
Posted at 9:18am Tuesday 8th July 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: This week the TV and newspapers have all been looking back over the years of the National Health Service and how we managed before it came into place.
Caroline Dutton »
In at the deep end of humanity
Posted at 4:40pm Monday 7th July 2008
Caroline Dutton column: I'm delighted that the council is making swimming free in Blackburn with Darwen.
Rev Kevin Logan »
Our kids are killing each other on the basis of a lie
Posted at 3:13pm Monday 7th July 2008
Rev Kevin Logan column: Another teenager killed. Below this headline this week, smaller print noted the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species book. The items are not unrelated.
Harry Nuttall »
Darwen lodge would make great conservation area
Posted at 11:48am Monday 7th July 2008
Harry Nuttall column: It's nearly 25 years since plans to redevelop Jack’s Key Lodge were first revealed.
Shuiab Khan »
Discrimination can give the boost you need
Posted at 9:50am Friday 4th July 2008
Shuiab Khan column: So now the Government wants to give those discriminated against a bit a little head start by urging firms to choose women and ethnic minorities over others.
Jack Straw »
NHS – it’s still a service to be proud of
Posted at 2:07pm Thursday 3rd July 2008
Jack Straw column: The NHS is my party’s proudest achievement. It was born in political controversy.
Sir Bill Taylor »
China is no sleeping giant
Posted at 5:03pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Sir Bill Taylor blog: China poses a major environmental, educational, economic and commercial challenge to our tiny talented and entrepreneurial island.
Nick Nunn »
These great landmarks are fine as they are
Posted at 4:00pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Nick Nunn column: East Lancashire has got some striking landmarks – both natural and constructed.
Lord Greaves »
Private landlord houses can cause problems too
Posted at 3:13pm Tuesday 1st July 2008
Lord Greaves column: Today I'm asking a question about the selective licensing of landlords, which sounds fairly dry but is crucial in areas like ours. Or it ought to be.
Lord Greaves »
No one knows just where the floodwaters will strike next
Posted at 3:12pm Tuesday 1st July 2008
Lord Greaves column: It's a year since the summer of the floods which inundated large areas of the flatlands in Yorkshire and Gloucestershire and some other areas.
Margo »
Stop trying to make us all the same!
Posted at 10:29am Tuesday 1st July 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: While talking to some people on the train to London the conversation turned, as usual, to how we were losing the things that have made us what we are and what we could do about it.
Rev Kevin Logan »
The one who designed us still calls out has he as in every age
Posted at 3:58pm Monday 30th June 2008
Rev Kevin Logan column: We Brits look back on what we once were. The good old days, say some.
Harry Nuttall »
Spelling contest teaches Darwen children teamwork
Posted at 11:25am Monday 30th June 2008
HARRY goes back to school for Darwen’s annual spelling championship.
Caroline Dutton »
New body for the hols? Gym’ll fix it
Posted at 5:19pm Monday 30th June 2008
Caroline Dutton column: I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed of myself, so I’ll just say it: I’ve joined a gym.
Shuiab Khan »
Wedding guest tried to spoil the happy day
Posted at 12:02pm Friday 27th June 2008
Shuiab Khan column: Having not attended a wedding for a while, I was expecting things to have moved on.
Jack Straw »
There is a very strong case for anonymity
Posted at 11:38am Thursday 26th June 2008
jack Straw column; The phrase “witness intimidation” is not exactly one which slips easily off the tongue.
Nick Nunn »
We really must get moving on cycle lanes
Posted at 10:57am Wednesday 25th June 2008
Nick Nunn column: Last week was national Bike Week but you probably didn’t notice.
Margo »
They never listen... so they never learn
Posted at 11:19am Tuesday 24th June 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: Does anybody listen? Does anybody care? National and local politicians talk very glibly about listening, taking notice, putting things out to public consultation, in order to find out what we think.
Harry Nuttall »
Former racehorse owner gambles on reopening Darwen pub
Posted at 11:56am Monday 23rd June 2008
Harry Nuttall column: Terry Whalley is undaunted at the prospect of reopening his old watering hole, Uncle Jacks pub in Lower Darwen.
Caroline Dutton »
Teacake troubles drive me barmy
Posted at 1:12pm Saturday 21st June 2008
Caroline Dutton column: While visiting friends down south recently we nipped into a local chippy for a snack. Chip teacake my Blackburn born-and-bred boyfriend ordered.
Rev Kevin Logan »
Church could split over gays and women bishops
Posted at 10:23am Saturday 21st June 2008
Rev Kevin Logan's column: By next week, many Saturday Sermon readers may be choosing which church to join after worldwide Anglicanism splits over gays after a leadership meeting in Jerusalem.
Jack Straw »
Gym’ll fix a lot of our problems
Posted at 11:54am Thursday 19th June 2008
Jack Straw column: Those of you who are regular readers of my column will know of my belief that success at work is largely down to the effort you are prepared to put in to the job.
Nick Nunn »
Please don’t make me listen to your music
Posted at 9:22am Wednesday 18th June 2008
Nick Nunn column: The idea of Lancashire Constabulary facing a threat of legal action because of the alleged playing of recorded music in various police buildings without a licence was one of the brighter spots of the past weeks local news.
Margo »
At last...someone makes a stand for our freedoms
Posted at 12:50pm Tuesday 17th June 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: SO, at last, we have David Davis MP making a stand, sticking up for what he thinks is right and I dont care if its a stunt or not.
Lord Greaves »
Looking back on an explosive week of bombshells
Posted at 12:48pm Tuesday 17th June 2008
Lord Greaves column: That was the week that was and the Westminster hothouse was certainly set all agog.
Harry Nuttall »
Get rid of these for-sale bangers littering Darwen
Posted at 10:40am Monday 16th June 2008
Harry Nuttall column: What really annoys me is the proliferation of old cars with For Sale signs all over em clogging up Darwens already badly-congested streets.
Rev Kevin Logan »
We teach our kids how to cheat, steal and lie
Posted at 4:01pm Saturday 14th June 2008
Rev Kevin Logan's column: What fun! The happy couple enter Big Brother house this week and have to lie about knowing each other.
Caroline Dutton »
Women didn’t get the vote after all
Posted at 9:14am Saturday 14th June 2008
Caroline Dutton column: The big question I've been pondering this week: Why did Hillary Clinton and Claire Young lose?
Sir Bill Taylor »
Pride in the way Rovers compete with glamour boys
Posted at 12:30pm Friday 13th June 2008
Sir Bill Taylor blog: The saga of Mark Hughes' departure and wholl replace him has certainly focussed the minds of our back pages and in the pubs and clubs recently.
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