Opinion

When the BBC declined to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract in the wake of the Top Gear presenter’s well-publicised bout of fisticuffs with a producer, there was huge outcry.

Sometimes, in my darker moments, I feel like one of the chinstrap penguins of Zavadovski island.

I think it is safe to say it is increasingly difficult to identify what is or is not true online and across social media.

Our local historian, Keith Johnson, takes a look back at a pub brawl that ends with tragic consequences..

This week our antiques expert Allan Blackburn takes a look at movie memorabilia.

Daughter #1 is 17 today.

How in the name of Holy Mary Mother of God did that happen?

Last week the Lions of England were in town – soldiers recruited throughout the North West.

Am I an honorary snowflake? That is the question I have been asking myself during these first few days of what are bound to become known as the Trump Years.

The Establishments in London and Washington have been rocked on their heels by Donald Trump’s White House victory and the Brexit vote in this country.

Okay, brass tacks, we need President-elect Donald Trump – a phrase which in and of itself will forever be an hilarious black joke – to find a new doctor.

There are some things in life that seem so thrilling when you’re a youngster, but by the time you’ve become a grumpy grown-up, the magic has somehow been sucked out of them.

Ah, 2016, you still have a month and half to go and already you have proved yourself a tricky,memorable , cruel companion.

As the drama of a looming Brexit takes another dramatic turn in the High Courts, over in Spain the sun is shining.

A few months before last year’s general election, this column said voting was a waste of time because whoever won wouldn’t work for the people who put their cross in a box at a polling station, but would instead serve the interests of the corporations which fund them.

Recently, the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, delivered a Peace Lecture at Lancaster University where young people are encouraged to have an enquiring mind.

There are some rules which are there to be broken.

Theresa May is brandishing her iron-clad fist to demonstrate her resolve to ensure Brexit is achieved despite the increasing number of obstacles littering her path.

One year, when you were very young, a poppy appeared on your parka.