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Shuiab Khan »
Throw out these rules for recycling
Posted on 10:41am Friday 25th July 2008
Shuiab Khan column: I used to love the idea of recycling until the little rules and regulations took over.
Jack Straw »
It’s wrong to think we are a soft touch
Posted on 2:36pm Thursday 24th July 2008
Jack Straw column: We’re far too soft – is a common refrain from folk. Soft on criminals, soft on foreign prisoners, soft on immigrants, soft on asylum seekers, soft on EU workers.
Nick Nunn »
We have all failed the test on education
Posted on 10:23am Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Nick Nunn column: Hundreds of anxious East Lancashire teenagers are a few weeks away from the GCSE and A level results that will most likely decide their future career paths.
Margo »
We’re becoming prisoners of our own paranoia
Posted on 9:15am Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: Over the past week I have come to the sad conclusion that the terrorists have won.
Rev Kevin Logan »
The only decision taken is not to make any decisions
Posted on 5:15pm Monday 21st July 2008
Rev Kevin Logan column: I used to pray I’d get stuck in a lift with my reverend boss and chat how we might best keep his feet from entering his bewhiskered orifice, and how church decision-making skills might best be improved.
Harry Nuttall »
East Lancashire bus lane plan will go nowhere
Posted on 11:10am Monday 21st July 2008
Harry Nuttall column: Did you go along to one of those “con-sul-ta-tions” in Darwen over the past couple of weeks?
Author Unknown »
When it comes to the crunch . . .
Posted on 3:23pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Caroline Dutton column: There's only one thing guaranteed to put you in a bad mood quicker than having to practically take out a mortgage to fill your car with petrol.
Shuiab Khan »
Sorry chaps, this is one argument you’ll never win!
Posted on 4:10pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Shuiab Khan column: There are all sorts of people in the world. And then there are the newlyweds.
Nick Nunn »
‘Buying British’ problems are hardly new
Posted on 3:36pm Wednesday 16th July 2008
Nick Nunn column: Companies do come and go but there was something particularly sad about the news that Hilden Manufacturing had gone into administration last week.
Lord Greaves »
Few have experience of how things work on the ground
Posted on 3:27pm Tuesday 15th July 2008
Lord Greaves column: End of term and almost three months when the government can do as it likes and there's no-one in parliament to even ask a question.
Margo »
People must be responsible for themselves
Posted on 11:03am Tuesday 15th July 2008
Margo Grimshaw column: There are things needing to be said that have, for far too long, been left unsaid.
Caroline Dutton »
Crazy name, crazy parents
Posted on 4:28pm Monday 14th July 2008
Caroline Dutton column: Another week and another celebrity has given birth.
Rev Kevin Logan »
I’m afraid this type of unlikely faith is beyond me
Posted on 3:35pm Monday 14th July 2008
Rev Kevin Logan column: I mentioned that survival-of-the-fittest ideas, breathed in by our youngsters via big and small screens and our general no-God culture, are turning some into knife and gun killers.
Harry Nuttall »
Recalling one of Darwen’s sporting heroes
Posted on 10:53am Monday 14th July 2008
Narry Nuttall column: Most of the world’s top golfers will be lining up on the Lancashire coast later this week in a chase for one of sport’s most famous trophies – the Open’s silver claret jug.
Shuiab Khan »
Is life really as bad as people are making out?
Posted on 10:55am Friday 11th July 2008
Shuiab Khan column: Before reading this you will have already read somewhere else about how depressing it’s going to get in the coming months.
Jack Straw »
We must keep positive about East Lancashire
Posted on 10:39am Thursday 10th July 2008
Jack Straw column: “This place feels prosperous, Jack” said a recent visitor to Blackburn, about the town.
Nick Nunn »
Acts of violence seem to get more random
Posted on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 11:25am Monday 30th June 2008
HARRY goes back to school for Darwen’s annual spelling championship.
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