British Living Legend: Delia Smith’s 12th Man Football Cry
Twenty years on, the "message to the best football supporters in the world", has like a fine wine, just got better with age....
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Lancashire Dialect Poetry: ‘Council Chap Puts Pike In Chorley’, Poem Read By Frank Speak
Time to honour our gradely hill – Council Chap Puts Pike In Chorley – with a reading by Frank Speak in the local dialect.
#LancashireDay ...
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Dyslexia: The Reading Room By Quarantine Theatre In Central Library With Jules Styles
As it’s National Dyslexia Week, here’s a blog from the Nikki Wordsmith archives with Jules Styles that touches on this topic in a celebratory neurodivergent way… ...
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Spot The Girl: Women’s Football And The Women’s World Cup
Spot the girl?
How my ten year old self’s football career was thwarted by sexism.
And forty years on, how many more doors are open for my five year old daughter to play the beautiful game....
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Order! Order! Sir Lindsay Hoyle: Our Gradely Speaker Of The House of Commons & The Lancashire Accent
Fortunately, there is one voice that is holding the people who run our country together — Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons – and his voice is pure Lancashire....
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