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Kenny’s death put bitter rivalries into context
WE ALL know the sad tale about the world-beating football team making their way back home after a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade in early February, 1958, refuelling in Southern Germany before heavy snow and engine problems combined … Continue reading
Remembering England’s Evelyn
IT’S difficult to know where to start when it comes to a suitable Remembrance weekend tribute to all those who died in military service protecting our freedom. But I’ve chosen a distinguished England international footballer and schoolteacher who grew up … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football, sport
Tagged Bradford City, Evelyn Lintott, godalming, guildford, Leeds City, Plymouth Argyle, Queens Park Rangers, Somme, West Yorkshire, Woking
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Permission to pay a tribute, sir!
I was on a London Media Workshops ‘Writing Television Comedy’ course in my late teens, led by the great Jimmy Perry – the actor-turned-writer who teamed up with David Croft and wrote It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and You … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio
Tagged Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, Dad's Army, Danny Baker, David Croft, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Perry, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier
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The relentless search for our favourite 30 family reads
A few weeks ago, the Wyatt family (Northern branch) was asked to get involved in Lancashire Libraries’ Reading Families* project. And as a regular Leyland Library customer since my girls were tots, and a keen supporter of The Bookseller‘s Fight for … Continue reading
Sat Nav be buggered – the pitiful search for Rodney Parade
We were doing so well, with the motorway traffic between Lancashire and the South Wales border flowing as smoothly as could be expected on a busy Saturday morning at the beginning of half term and everything going to plan. The … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Bradley Bubb, Chartists, Kevin Betsy, lancashire, Monmouthshire, Newport County, Newport Gwent Dragons, Pontypool, Surrey, Woking
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Tales of witchcraft – from 1612 to 2012
To mark the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials – and in the week of All Hallows, ghouls, ghosts, witches, wizards and those things that go bump in the night – writewyattuk looks at two new children’s/young adult publications … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio
Tagged Hollow Pike, Indigo, James Dawson, lancashire, Lancaster, Livi Michael, Malkin Child, Pendle, Witch Trials, Yorkshire
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Non-league football still has White Tigers in its tail
As Mark Twain, once wrote, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” And there were elements of that in the reporting of troubled Truro City’s final demise late last week. It’s all been happening at Treyew Road of late, … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Colne Dynamoes, Conference South, Cornwall, Fleetwood Town, Kettering Town, non-League Day, Staines Town, Stewart Yetton, Truro City, Woking
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