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CSI:Craven - starring crimefighting Louise

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:31:13 +0000

The plots on smash hit US television series Crime Scene Investigation can be a bit far-fetched at times – and nobody knows that better than Craven’s own Louise Devereaux.

New SBS chief confident for the future

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:00:00 +0000

The credit crunch is a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”, says Skipton Building Society’s new chief executive, and he has no intention of letting it pass him by.

I’ll phone up troublemakers’ mums, says new police chief

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:10:00 +0000

“Does your mother know?” That’s what Skipton’s new police chief is asking young troublemakers.

Best-selling writer Marina happy to be back in town

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0000

International best-selling author Marina Fiorato has travelled the world this year promoting her successful debut novel – but she’s never happier than when back at her mother’s home in Langcliffe.

Farewell to our own John Sheard

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:50:00 +0000

On a September morning in 1956, a callow 17-year-old youth fresh out of an ancient grammar school walked into a Grade Two listed office building to start a job as a copy boy on his local weekly paper, a traditional, county broadsheet with ads on the front page. It was called the Derbyshire Advertiser.

Nurse’s mission to halt advance of a ‘silent assassin’

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:10:00 +0000

On two sad but deeply moving occasions in the past, I have written about people facing death from terminal illness.

The hobby that ballooned into a successful business

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:20:00 +0000

Some of the happiest, most fulfilled people I know are those who have turned their hobbies into businesses. Doing what you like doing best is an enviable way of making a living and many of them have been happy to barter less pay for more job satisfaction.

Cold fury of the Legion man leading the parade

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Pomp, pride and patriotism may not be as fashionable as they once were, but they will be on show in force this Sunday to mark the 90th Remembrance Sunday since the end of the carnage of World War One.

Carolyn out to net a new generation of sporting champions

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:30:00 +0100

British sport is on something of a roll at present.

A premier league gentleman

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:10:00 +0100

A recurring theme of this column is the small number of people who spend much of their lives organising leisure and social activities for lots and lots of other people to enjoy. It is, sadly, a dwindling bunch so many of the veterans keep soldiering on.