http://www.northantset.co.uk/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=13003 en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk KET http://www.northantset.co.uk/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=13003&format=rss Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:47:44 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.northantset.co.uk/template/group/images/rss/KET_rss.gif http://www.northantset.co.uk 281 70 http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/No-longer-only-here-for.6046967.jp The average cost of a pint of beer is £2, or let's charitably convert to say £3 per litre. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/No-longer-only-here-for.6046967.jp Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:22:36 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Why-I-should-be-counting.6026105.jp My dad died in 1971 at the age of 55 and would have been 95 this year. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Why-I-should-be-counting.6026105.jp Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:26:08 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-concept-and-value-of.6005603.jp Without doubt money is the controller of lives. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-concept-and-value-of.6005603.jp Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:16:04 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/This-piece-of-paper-is.5985653.jp On Saturday, March 29, 1608, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, signed his name to a piece of paper using a quill pen and ink. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/This-piece-of-paper-is.5985653.jp Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:43:16 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Serious-about-tackling-the-terrorists.5966750.jp We touched down at JFK on Christmas Eve filled with the unique excitement that only New York can induce. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Serious-about-tackling-the-terrorists.5966750.jp Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:09:45 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/A-jam-jar-of-memories.5923413.jp In February 1999 I had been a widower for four years. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/A-jam-jar-of-memories.5923413.jp Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:14:25 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/They-should-be-sacked-not.5904285.jp Let's see if I've heard this right. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/They-should-be-sacked-not.5904285.jp Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:32:38 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Old-photos-destroy-lofty-intentions.5885179.jp I recently decided to tidy our loft space: not a job for the faint hearted. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Old-photos-destroy-lofty-intentions.5885179.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:57:31 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-present-that-makes-me.5864478.jp There is a question that one faces from family and friends at this time of year. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-present-that-makes-me.5864478.jp Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:17:52 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/A-degree-of-madness-in.5843362.jp If there is one thing that Florence Nightingale did not need it would be a degree in nursing. Even the notion of such a thing is absurd. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/A-degree-of-madness-in.5843362.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:56:41 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Give-bank-holidays-a-new.5822471.jp One of the most bizarre parts of our British calendar has to be the 'bank holiday'. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Give-bank-holidays-a-new.5822471.jp Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:54:02 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/We-must-not-settle-for.5802360.jp Like most people in Corby, I had been anticipating the opening of a new railway station for more years than I can remember. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/We-must-not-settle-for.5802360.jp Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:47:17 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Dreamer-in-the-band-of.5740296.jp As one gets older it becomes difficult to recall memories from early youth with genuine clarity without the poetic licence of rose-coloured spectacles. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Dreamer-in-the-band-of.5740296.jp Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:08:12 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Obsessive-compulsive-and-in-order.5719645.jp I have always been a collector of 'things'. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Obsessive-compulsive-and-in-order.5719645.jp Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:00:14 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Nocar-days-might-be-the.5698426.jp Thirty-six years ago six countries (Belgium, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the then West Germany) were forced into imposing 'car-less-Sundays&#3 http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Nocar-days-might-be-the.5698426.jp Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:40:09 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Police-are-welcome-to-my.5679490.jp Whether we like it or not the world has changed. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Police-are-welcome-to-my.5679490.jp Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:14:38 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Paying-a-big-price-for.5660609.jp I live in the Rose of the Shires, buried deep within the Rockingham Forest and presumably, from time to time, a little girl in a red hooded riding cape can be expected to knoc http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Paying-a-big-price-for.5660609.jp Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:34:24 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Why-failure-should-not-be.5618452.jp It seems useless and unfair to me to have an education system that attempts to educate without a system of testing: this is, frankly, pointless. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Why-failure-should-not-be.5618452.jp Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:20:24 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Compassion-undermines-legal-system.5576076.jp This week's news prompted me to ask myself the following two questions. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Compassion-undermines-legal-system.5576076.jp Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:27:09 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Who-what-why-where-and.5554658.jp What is a caterpillar grandad? 'Good question son.' http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Who-what-why-where-and.5554658.jp Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:56:58 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Has-atheism-become-a-religion.5532428.jp Last week an atheist summer camp for children was set up in Somerset professing to be a "godless alternative" to religious camps. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Has-atheism-become-a-religion.5532428.jp Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:08:13 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/We-should-be-able-to.5512517.jp Democracies pride themselves on one basic principle above all else: the right for its citizens to vote. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/We-should-be-able-to.5512517.jp Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:37:34 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Confessions-of-a-space-anorak.5491890.jp Forty years ago this week, on Sunday, July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Confessions-of-a-space-anorak.5491890.jp Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:15:51 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Troops39-safety-can39t-be-guaranteed.5470136.jp Throughout my childhood I was faced with the horrific reports and images from the other side of the world in a place called Vietnam. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Troops39-safety-can39t-be-guaranteed.5470136.jp Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:38:35 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Now-touch-wood-It39s-a.5448667.jp I was asked this week to distinguish between superstition and belief. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Now-touch-wood-It39s-a.5448667.jp Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:01:08 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Honour-to-open-fete-for.5426797.jp It was a genuine honour for me to be asked to officially open the summer fete at Lakeland's Hospice in Corby last Sunday. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Honour-to-open-fete-for.5426797.jp Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:06:02 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-joy-of-meeting-Margaret.5406357.jp While I was waiting for my better-half as she was having treatment at Corby Diagnostic Centre, I found myself sitting next to a well-dressed lady leaning on two walking sticks http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/The-joy-of-meeting-Margaret.5406357.jp Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:52:39 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Handbags-at-dawn-with-the.5382630.jp When history and local politics are played out together, I tend to become quite animated, and that's just what happened this week. http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Handbags-at-dawn-with-the.5382630.jp Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:48:17 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Reveal-how-much-39the-talent39.5360796.jp The requirement for transparency in the spending of public money has never been so evident, despite the fact that such activity has undoubtedly been carried out over centuries http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/Reveal-how-much-39the-talent39.5360796.jp Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:31:08 GMT http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/He-ain39t-heavy-he39s-just.5338724.jp Is there really such a thing as the black sheep of the family? Am I even allowed to use that old expression any more? There is always the uncle or brother no-one wants to know http://www.northantset.co.uk/oliff/He-ain39t-heavy-he39s-just.5338724.jp Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:45:01 GMT