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A timely, contributed poem

LarryWinger
January 19, 2020
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I’m so delighted to provide Marjorie Anderson space for her lovely poem, a piece of work that set our Creative Writing class a-tingle last term. This poem, for me, develops the whole sense of the year ahead, and the year…

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Environment Fundraising Services

Pennines Wildlife Rescue

LarryWinger
December 28, 2019
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I think that Tony has had a passion for wild animals for a long time, but certainly after his various tours of duty with the armed forces, this devotion to care for suffering animals has become an obsession. Together with…

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Environment Healthy Living In-Between Times Infrastructure

Old Man Bottom

LarryWinger
December 27, 2019
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I suppose in every language, there are idiosyncrasies that will trip just about everyone up. Things like that verse in the carol ‘Ding-dong merrily on high’ where the line ‘And i-o, i-o, i-o, by priests and people sungen’, and you’re…

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Community Environment Faith and Worship Organisation

The Burnlaw community and the Bahá’í faith

LarryWinger
December 8, 2019
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In midsummer of 2020, the Burnlaw community will celebrate its 40th anniversary. I had a lovely long chat with Garry Villiers-Stuart the other day, both of us fading now into our later years, but still, I think, fizzing with the…

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Education Environment

Whitfield Church of England Primary School

LarryWinger
December 2, 2019
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These days the lovely little school at Whitfield is a primary school academy, managed by The Good Shepherd Multi-Academy Trust. According to the school’s website, it was the first in Northumberland to be taken under this trust’s wing. I dropped…

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Business Community Environment Institutions

The Elk’s Head and Whitfield Estate Partnership

LarryWinger
November 28, 2019
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I seem to have spent some time traversing the West Allen valley over the past week or so, trying to make this diary a more comprehensive recapitulation of the entities in the whole patch. The Elk’s Head is the last…

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Environment

Remediation works on the West Allen at Carrshield

LarryWinger
November 22, 2019
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Throughout this entire year, but scheduled to be completed by Christmas, the work of the Environment Agency and the Coal Authority in reducing the absorption of lead, zinc and cadmium from the Carrshield tailings dam into the tumbling waters of…

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Business Environment

Curiouser and curiouser

LarryWinger
November 20, 2019
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It was Lewis Carroll, writing for Alice in Wonderland, who coined the phrase to which, I imagine, the cheerful enterprise Curious Tent Hire owes its name. I had a lovely chat with Bryony Villiers-Stuart, who runs the growing company headquartered…

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Community Environment Event Healthy Living

Higher Ground Repair Day

LarryWinger
November 19, 2019
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So I bustled out, after a lovely dinner, in the freezing cold (-3ºC by the little Fiat’s thermometer), venturing down the icy track to The King’s Head for a small informal meeting called by Jane Pryde of Higher Ground who’d…

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Business Environment Farming Healthy Living Tourism

Sinderhope Pony Trekking Centre

LarryWinger
November 16, 2019
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I called Lisa Collingwood-Philipson on 01434 685266 the other day to chat about the pony trekking centre up at Sinderhope that she’s run since about ’99. It’s no wonder the enterprise is such a success, since she’s so down-to-earth friendly!…

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