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Woodalls and the Woodlark
- Posted on May 13, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
The experience alone makes it worth going into Woodalls. Every nook and cranny is stuffed and more hanging from the ceiling. What you want is likely to be in there somewhere….and a conversation with Winston is a pleasure in itself. click on image to enlarge Ask him what he sells [...]
Continue reading...Kenny’s story: Chapter 3
- Posted on May 10, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
click on image to enlarge In chapter 2 I told you of the murder of Officer Paul Verna in 1983 and this is what happened at the trial. Pam and Ray initially concocted a story that the murderers were me and a guy called Milton who looked very like Ray: [...]
Continue reading...Malton and Norton’s Got Talent
- Posted on April 28, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
They sure have! A packed house in the Milton Rooms last Friday night was treated to fabulous music, songs and performances by the students of Norton College and Malton School – to hugely enthusiastic and richly deserved cheers. The judges must have had an impossible job – all the acts [...]
Continue reading...Kenny’s story: Chapter 2
- Posted on April 24, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
Kenny recounts the dreadful event that would so profoundly affect all involved….. In 1983, I was aged 26 and out after a spell in prison for arson. I agreed to go show my brother’s friend, Ray Cumming, where he could get marijuana. Going for a ride in that Buick Cutlass [...]
Continue reading...Malton and Norton Are Going Totally Locally
- Posted on April 9, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
Totally Locally is a branding and marketing concept for the independent shops of our towns. Started in Calderdale in 2009, it has grown and spread, in just four years, from its prototype at Hebden Bridge to more than seventy towns across the country. Whitby is about to go Totally Locally [...]
Continue reading...Beer and Taxes
- Posted on April 2, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
click on image to enlarge Suppose that once a month, 10 men go out for beer and the bill for all of them comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this. The first four men – the poorest [...]
Continue reading...Kenny’s story: chapter 1
- Posted on March 26, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
When Emma suggested I might write to the people who read her Blog, my first reaction was, why would anyone want to hear about me and my problems? She convinced me that people who care about other people would be interested in my story. For a long time it has [...]
Continue reading...A level playing field?
- Posted on March 12, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
click on image to enlarge Playing fields are a vital part of English life – drive through a town or village on a summer afternoon and you’re sure to see a cricket match going on – and at a winter weekend the bright shirts of rugby and football enthusiasts, young [...]
Continue reading...Kenneth Gay, a prisoner on Condemned Row in San Quentin jail, California
- Posted on March 5, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
Kenny is a British man who has been on death row for thirty years. People held in San Quentin are not able to use the internet, but he knows a lot about Malton through my descriptions and the copies of blog posts I’ve sent him. Several Christmasses ago, the charity [...]
Continue reading...Ryedale District Council have not thrown in the towel
- Posted on February 28, 2013
- in Maltons Journal
- by Emma
Keith Knaggs, until recently leader of Ryedale District Council, has picked up the pen for the local paper, saying he wants to ‘exercise my new freedom to speak my mind’. He says that, ‘right or wrong’, the public has lost trust in the planning authority ‘over Wentworth Street, the livestock [...]
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