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Serious stuff on the front page of this week’s soaraway Westmorland Gazette. A team of naughty estate agents has been passing itself off as chartered surveyors and issue false certificates for...
Usually my blog posts are a finely-crafted thing, I'm sure you'll agree. The blog gathers together the disparate elements of the week's Westmorland Gazette stories, honing them into a coherent...
It's always a bad idea to let a cartoonist wander around the local shopping experience armed with a sketchbook and time on his hands. It's not only the burgers in here which are not what they seem...
I am a big fan of the National Health Service in general and the local Trust in particular. Over many years, it has provided a healthy diet of stories for my cartoon in The Westmorland Gazette....
This week’s Westmorland Gazette front page story is about second homes in the Lake District. Again. A report from the Cumbria Rural Housing Trust has identified a number of Lakeland villages which...
Last weekend Cumbria was hit by the worst snow storm since 1950. There were drifts up to twenty feet deep, 70 motorists were snowed in and had to stay for two nights in the local school,...
A cartoonist’s working life has an uneven rhythm. A fixed point of mine, for twenty-odd years, has been the front page cartoon for The Westmorland Gazette. The afternoon before press day, between...
Your health is important. My health is important. I’d argue that my health is more important than your health but I think we’ve established the principle that, generally speaking, health is pretty...
It has been a good week for cartoonists, with horse meat turning up in everything and the pope resigning (rumours that Tony Blair is taking on the role is untrue as he considers it a step down)....
For several months now, there have been constant rumblings about a plan to site an underground nuclear waste facility in the UK. In an odd move, our beloved government asked councils to bid to host...
A veritable avalanche of good cartoon stories in The Westmorland Gazette this week. For a start, a local hairdresser is a hit on Channel 4's Come Dine With Me show. (If you haven't seen it, this a...
These are the cartoon sketches from last week's Westmorland Gazette newspaper cartoon. The stories were an interesting bunch: An international cartoon festival is being stage in Kendal (see my blog...
I have some news for you. You may want to sit down for this: Kendal is going to have a Comic Art Festival. I’ll say that again in case you missed it. In fact, I’ll say it in bold with a bigger font...
Occasionally a story comes along which gets me cross. Okay, it’s more than occasionally. But it’s not always in the pages of The Westmorland Gazette. When it is, my front page gives me the...
Happy New Year to all my readers. I hope you have your wellington boots handy - it’s going to be a wet start. 2012 has gone down as the wettest year in Cumbria since records began in 1910. Given...
Christmas is upon us and in news rooms up and down the country, the search is on for stories with festive cheer. This week, The Westmorland Gazette presented me with the tale of a reindeer. One...
Brockhole is the Lake District National Park Authority visitor centre and is justly famous. It's a Victorian mansion which stands in Thomas Mawson-designed grounds on the shore of England's largest...
At this special time of year, what could be better than rushing into the countryside and throwing your clothes off for charity? Well, any number of things. I can think of about a million. However,...
And so to the Reebok Stadium in Bolton and the very swish De Veres White Hotel for the Boot Out Breast Cancer charity event. As I mentioned in my previous blog, this is a James Bond themed night...
Here's the thing. I am a cartoonist, not a caricaturist. The two skills are similar but one can't necessarily do the job of the other. I always take great care to explain this when anyone asks me...
Earlier today I attended a business forum in the Coronation Hall, Ulverston, organised by the Ulverston Business Alliance. Nothing unusual there, you may think. But this was a forum run by The...
Occasionally, when I enter the newsroom at The Westmorland Gazette, there is one story which everyone expects me to do. Even before I’ve read the stories, a reporter will say, “Oh, are you going to...
For this cartoonist, a trip to London involves two statutory pilgrimages. The first is to the British Cartoon Museum. This splendid establishment is tucked away near the British Museum. It is...
A horticultural theme for this week's Westmorland Gazette cartoon candidates. Venerable organisation Cumbria In Bloom - which celebrates the best towns and villages in the area - is suffering a...
There are a number of standard reactions when I tell people I do the front page cartoon for The Westmorland Gazette. These include: "Oh, which cartoon do you do?" (there is only one) "You don't...
Last week's Westmorland Gazette newspaper stories presented a challenge for the front page cartoon. The main story was the proposal to build 20,000 new homes in South Lakes. Some bright spark had...
An entertaining mix of stories for this week's Westmorland Gazette cartoon. The first involved a cat found inside the engine of a 4x4 vehicle. The cat was a bit singed but otherwise unharmed. I...
There was quite a fuss a month ago, when Virgin Trains lost the West Coast rail franchise to rival operator FirstGroup. "Not fair," cried Richard Branson, going in one bound from slightly annoying...
Cumbrians took a brief break, this week, from their usual activity of watching the weather and building arks. And what did they do? Shoved coins into some trees. This is a craze sweeping the...
Microbreweries are becoming a major industry in Cumbria. Now even Carnforth Railway Station has one. Brief encounters are about to get a whole lot longer. Elsewhere … students get a break from...
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