Peterborough Today - Columnists

Julia Ogden: Everybody needs good neighbours

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

WHEN you live in a residential area, there has to be a bit of give and take when it comes to your neighbours.

Raz Jabbin: on the issue of the burka

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:30:09 GMT

When it comes to the issue of the burka I feel split.

Alan Swann: on the Ashes and Test cricket

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I DO hope England's rather fortunate draw in the first Test doesn't blind the selectors, or the fans for that matter, to our severe short-comings.

Nyree Ambarchian: Hopenhagen?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:56:13 GMT

In December this year, when homes across the UK are digging out decorations, buying presents and hanging lights, world leaders from 192 countries will meet at the United Natio

Kev Lawrence: on pet tricks

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Despite the love I have for my dog, she is not the cleverest animal in the world. Her one and only trick, is that she lifts her paw just before her evening meal, after we bark

Peter Rook: where to start looking for that someone special

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Every MADman at some stage reaches the point where they feel the time has come to for them meet that someone special. So where do you meet your new love interest? Well, I

Stewart Jackson MP: on the case of Craig Chilman and the Young People's Development Programme

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:43 GMT

I've had my say on the decision of Circuit Judge Sean Enright not to jail serial burglar and druggie Craig Chilman this week, but it's as well to remember that judges

Nigel Thornton: on school meals, Harold Wilson and taking the plinth

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

No profit on school meals results in a loss for our kids I hated school meals with a vengeance. To this day, I remain mentally scarred by the soggy helpings of beetroot that

Julia Ogden: things aren't always as scary as you think

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:06 GMT

AS I mentioned last week, my six-year-old son has become really scarred of things which go bump in the night – in particular trolls.

Raz Jabbin: on the student-teacher relationship

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:27:08 GMT

Last week, I attended a conference in London where both students and senior lecturers, from different universities, came together to discuss questions around research within t

Alan Swann: On Michael Owen, Wimbledon irritations plus Swanny's fanmail

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SO Manchester United sell the best player in the world for £80 million and let the hardest working striker in the Premier League depart as well, possibly to their rivals fro

Kev Lawrence: on the golf bug

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There is a bug that you can catch that bites into you, and stays un-treatable for the rest of your life. It gives pain and pleasure in roughly equal amounts. It is contracted

Peter Rook: on what women want

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

So you're divorced. Maybe you're heartbroken. But that's no reason to build a barrier around your heart (is that a song title?).

Nyree Ambarchian: The Big Lunch - 19th July

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:33:47 GMT

If you don't already have plans for Sunday July 19 then why not get involved with the Big Lunch? You may have seen the adverts on TV where neighbours offer up their divers

Nigel Thornton: on the Great Northern Hotel and the bungled bollards

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:23:11 GMT

Great Northern Hotel's future is our concern The new owners of the Great Northern Hotel are running a business. A private business.

Julia Ogden: on sleeping through the night

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:20:17 GMT

Sleep becomes a bit of an obsession once you have had a baby. Within days of bringing your bundle of joy home, people will ask: "Is he/she sleeping through the night yet?

Raz Jabbin: on the death of Michael Jackson

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Though much is going on in the world at the moment, like many others, it's the news of Michael Jackson's death that has moved me the most this week.

Alan Swann: on women's sport and discipline in rugby

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SOUTH Africa's rugby team are a bunch of eye-gouging, late-tackling, dirty thugs and the sport should be ashamed that such an unruly mob can call themselves world cham

Kev Lawrence: on Michael Jackson's legacy

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

"Who is going to look after Michael Jackson's three children now he has died Daddy?" My eight-year-old son's question was asked with such a beautiful innocence

Peter Rook: on follically-challenged footballers

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

It was while watching a TV re-run of The Big Match from the seventies that I began to ponder, whatever happened to follically-challenged footballers?

Nyree Ambarchian: New Peterborough environmental projects

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:51:42 GMT

Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) has recently received funding from Anglian Water, and the Scottish Power Energy People Trust, to start two new projects in t

Bob French: Dave Lamb, Wisbech cricketer Chris Clark and Boris Johnson

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lamb to the slaughter HE doesn't look a lot older - apart perhaps from the odd grey hair - but clearly age is catching up with former Baker Perkins goalkeeper Dave Lamb

Stewart Jackson MP: on the importance of Father's Day

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Just last Sunday was Father's Day. Yes, people say, it's a bit of a cheesy American import (it actually dates from 1910), but anything that makes children (

Nigel Thornton: Crime pays again; Ronaldo and Wimbledon

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Selina Rosella is a lucky woman. She's a junkie, with no job and forced to live on state hand-outs. Luck like that, most of us could do without.

Julia Ogden: on school sports day

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

MY son loves to run. From the moment he took his first tentative steps at the age of one, he was off...

Raz Jabbin: At least Pakistan know how to play cricket

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:24:26 GMT

OK, so they're probably the worst dancers in the world, but at least Pakistan know how to play cricket.

Alan Swann: Not a single ladies' sporting event worth admission money

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

WOMEN and sport really don't mix too well. I can't think of a single ladies sporting event worth admission money.

Kev Lawrence: on entertainment in Peterborough

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Last week I expressed my disappointment in Peterborough, and its lack of an arena for decent entertainment.

Peter Rook: tips for a MAD-grandad

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There are some definite upsides to becoming a MAD-grandad – that's a Middle-Aged Divorced Grandad (see last week's column).

Nyree Ambarchian: Time to give beef the hoof?

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:43:31 GMT

David Blunkett's recent trampling by an irate cow in the Peak District brings the number of people suffering injury by bovine over the past eight years to 481.