 | 'Fly fishing is the new golf' | | 9:33am Fri 9 May 08 | | Because I pay my extortionately expensive salmon fishing licence by direct debit - which has gone up another £10 as another un-reported "stealth tax" - I receive from the Environment Agency a full-colour magazine called Catch. |
 | A £20,000 fine? Not a lot of people know that! | | 10:47am Fri 28 Mar 08 | | Not a lot of people know that the actor Michael Caine never said "Not a lot of people know that." The quote attributed to him was actually used by the late Peter Sellers as the message on his answer phone, mimicking Caine's cockney accent. | | Reader comments (2) |
 | Overweight? The moaners make Cheryl furious! | | 10:07am Fri 14 Mar 08 | | Sometimes this job leaves you absolutely gob-smacked. Just what should I have been expecting when I was asked to interview a world champion female bodybuilder: a sort of rugby front-row forward with cauliflower ears in a skirt? |
 | Son of a dining dynasty who couldn't stay away | | 9:59am Fri 29 Feb 08 | | Practitioners of my trade have been known to frequent licensed premises from time to time. Not for pleasure, of course, but for business: this is where we often find our stories. But when it comes to pubs, hotels and restaurants, my subject this week makes me feel like a teetotal hermit. |
 | The ‘tearaway’ who’s an example to all children | | 10:13am Fri 15 Feb 08 | | Schoolchildren in this country get a pretty bad press. In much of the media, they are portrayed as lazy truants "bunking off" from school, obese couch-potatoes, heads always bent over their computer game screens or - at worst - violent thugs capable of beating older people to a pulp. |
 | Dalesman editor bids a fond farewell | | 3:32pm Thu 31 Jan 08 | | It might seem a little odd that, after 20 years or so wandering round the Yorkshire Dales chatting to folk, that I had never before met the subject of today's column. |
 | Hugh's a gadget guru | | 3:14pm Thu 10 Jan 08 | | A friend and I were recently crossing Skipton High Street when we spotted a "Sale" notice in a shop window with "massive reductions" on various electronic gadgets. | | Reader comments (2) |
 | Ruth's key role in railway's survival | | 9:17am Fri 28 Dec 07 | | Most people have a small but inextinguishable store of memories of where they were when they heard some life-affecting item of news. It could be good; it could be chillingly bad; or a moment of pure joy. |
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