Yorkshire Bitter

Someone tells me that the alternative guide to Selby, written in about half an hour last year, has been reviewed in yesterday’s Yorkshire Evening Press, page 15.
Ooh, we’re all excited here in Barlby, I can tell you. We’d all go and celebrate by watching the traffic lights change… if we had any.

So British Gas bills are going up again, this time by 22%. Meanwhile the boss, ‘Sir’ Roy Gardner, awards himself a £2.5m salary and £6m pension for doing sweet FA.
But hang on a minute, how did we get in this mess? Until very recently, Britain was completely self-sufficient in energy. In fact, here in Yorkshire […]

Good to see some MPs (our very own John Grogan included, I think) showing a bit of backbone and voting against the Government on the amendments to the “incitement to religious hatred” bill. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4664398.stm
This is possibly the stupidest law I’ve seen put before Parliament for a long time - and believe me, it’s up against […]