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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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The Price Is Wrong (surely)
“HOW MUCH?” It’s an oft-repeated question in football these days, whether you’re talking about an international or a trip to see your local heroes – covering everything from the price of admission to the quality of a pie. And anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Arsenal, BBC Sport, Goole, Melchester Rovers, Montrose, Price of Football Survey, Romford, Rotherham United, Sunderland, Women's Super League
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Pain game reaches a whole new level
FORGET EL James. If you get pleasure from the pain of others, you need look no further than the 13-man football code. For rugby league, judging by the 2012 Super League Grand Final, is a sport where you might end … Continue reading
Weather or not you’re winning
Bring me sunshine, as a certain Lancashire comic said as he waved goodbye to the coastal resort which provided his stage name. And after a few years in Lancashire I think I realise what Eric was driving at. We may … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged chorley, Coventry City, Dumfries & Galloway, Gretna, Kevan Brown, lancashire, Morecambe, Skelmersdale United, Woking
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A tribute to a true sports fan, cancer battler and charity campaigner
So many of us go through life aiming to commit our life stories to print, yet so few manage to get past the hurdles involved before publication. Yet that changed somewhat with the advent of the e-book and recent strides … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football, sport
Tagged bone marrow, cancer, Chorley FC, Garry Flitcroft, John Blackburn, librarian, myeloma, Preston North End
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