Blog: Passionate about politics? Then get involved!

9:53am Wednesday 15th May 2013

I am a member of a minority. We are not liked, we are at times jeered and we are laughed at. I would like you to join us.

Blog: My career as a film extra

Danny's big scene

1:33pm Thursday 7th February 2013

Summer term jobs while studying for A-levels were never hard to come by in London in the mid-1980s.

Blog: How I learned to be a tourist in my home town

3:45pm Monday 28th January 2013

Whilst living in London for the first 34 years of my life I was, without doubt, the worst tourist ever.

Blog: The return of the prodigal son

4:32pm Monday 3rd December 2012

Lancashire Telegraph librarian Danny Cleary reflects on life as a Londoner in East Lancashire in his blog . . .

Blog: The north can show London a thing or two about food

5:28pm Tuesday 20th November 2012

Food, glorious food, as the Lionel Bart song says.  As I might have mentioned before, I am a lover of the good stuff, a bit too much really - as Clare will often remind me when I try for another of her wonderful spuds.

The pull of the big sky of East Lancashire

‘GREATEST GATHERING’ Walkers in witch-style fancy dress will climb Pendle Hill

10:56am Monday 29th October 2012

It may come as a surprise to those of you who have lived here all your lives, but your part of the world, East Lancashire, is probably one of England’s best kept secrets.

A little bit of Savile Row in the centre of Blackburn

4:44pm Friday 28th September 2012

Located in a small corner of Blackburn is a Savile Row trained bespoke tailor with a difference.

A grateful Islington family's happy memories of Nelson

9:00am Friday 7th September 2012

It was the spring of 2005 and I was walking around Nelson in East Lancashire, when I had a sudden flashback to a conversation I had in London in the spring of 2004, a few months before meeting Clare. How could this be?

The hills of Lancashire are tough for us Londoners

8:00am Friday 31st August 2012

Meeting the parents is always a daunting experience - whether you’re a love struck teenager, unable to talk and feeling very shy, or aged thirty four and behaving in exactly the same way.

When a little bit of London visited East Lancashire

11:58am Friday 24th August 2012

Clare had three children, the eldest of whom was 19 and the youngest was 10. With two teenage girls I did not have a clue how to get through to but with the boy there was more opportunity.

Blog: A Londoner in East Lancashire

3:22pm Friday 17th August 2012

I am a born and bred Londoner, a true Cockney according to legend, and before I met Clare I had never been this far north in England.



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