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Pentagon appointment for Tim Howard of Everton

A grateful US citizen briefly used Wikipedia to show America’s World Cup gratitude to Everton’s goalkeeper. Jimmy Wales, founder of the free encyclopaedia, commented graciously. The Everton and former...

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Wainwright’s 2015 calendar takes young walkers and climbers in footsteps of...

Proceeds from next year’s best-selling Wainwright Calendar will fund the kind of ‘moment of magic’ that persuaded the great artist and fell-walker to take a pay cut and live in the Lake District. On...

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Malcolm Hollingdrake wins North West Writer of the Year

Lancashire and North West Magazine judges have awarded our 2014 prize to Malcolm Hollingdrake. His entry, Another Time, Another Place, wins our two hundred pounds prize for a fictional story of less...

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Harold Elletson’s Northern Notebook

Why Your Council Tax Is So High Dr Thomas Stockmann, the hero of Henrik Ibsen’s great play An Enemy of the People, discovers that the mayor of his town has covered up the fact that the water in the...

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Manchester: the guide’s guide

Imagine Pevsner meeting Betjeman drinking in the Peveril of the Peak with Doctor Bronowski and Tony H Wilson. That’s what it can feel like when you settle down in a Manchester pub with the city guide...

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Harold Elletson’s Northern Notebook

Wilhelm II, German Kaiser and King of Prussia, visited the North West of England 120 years ago. He travelled from the east coast by train to Penrith where he was welcomed by his friend, the Earl of...

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Harold Elletson’s Northern Notebook

Was Emmeline the Greatest Lancastrian of All Time? Chief Inspector Francis Harry Rolfe of the Metropolitan Police had little trouble lifting up the elegant, well dressed woman at the head of a group...

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Harry Yeadon, civil engineer, 1922 – 2015

Born in Accrington, educated at Accrington Grammar and Manchester University, Harry Yeadon saw his first autostrada on wartime service with the Royal Engineers in Italy. He joined the highways and...

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Harold Elletson’s Northern Notebook

Is my house cracking because of your fracking? An old house is a never-ending labour of love. No sooner have you fixed one problem than another appears and, sometimes, what seemed at first to be a...

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Harry Yeadon, engineer, 1922 – 2015

Born in Accrington, educated at Accrington Grammar and Manchester University, Harry Yeadon saw his first autostrada on wartime service with the Royal Engineers in Italy. He joined the highways and...

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