Opinion

After a campaign of quite determined avoidance, I finally caved and watched an episode or two of the much equally beloved and maligned ‘Love Island’.

A few years ago, the big new trend on TV was Scandi-noir.

Safe to say, I’m not a runner. I’m not sure anyone is really - I’m thinking some just like pain more than others.

For inanimate objects, statues have been at the centre of a lot of controversy recently, as The Battle for Britain’s Heroes (Channel 4, Tuesday, 9pm) highlighted. People have even died – in Charlottesville, West Virginia – in violence surrounding protests over statues of controversial figures.

Our top columnist Geoffrey Shryhane reminisces with the original Calendar Girls...

Local historian Alf Ridyard in his column Tash Tales has a cringe when he takes a look back at fashion from yesteryear...

I played a fun game while watching the television this week. It’s called Spot The Other Reality Show. It works very well if you’re watching Britain’s Best Home Cook (BBC1, Thursdays, 8pm).

The worst has finally happened.

The old adage ‘sticks and stones will hurt my bones but words will never hurt me’ is probably the most inaccurate saying in the British language.

It seems the only people worth a TV drama these days are police officers, doctors and lawyers. So the question I asked myself when I sat down to watch The Split (BBC1, Tuesdays, 9pm) was do we really need another series about lawyers and their oh-so-aspirational problems?

Local historian Alf Ridyard looks at the history of haircuts in Leigh in his weekly column, Tash Tales...

Local historian Alf Ridyard looks at how the Leigh community bounced back after World War Two...

After the longest winter known to  womankind, spring is finally in the air and my enormous, reinforced and padded, hooded and fur-trimmed winter coathas finally been relegated to the cupboard.

According to my kids, they usually don’t do anything at their primary school, and when they do get round to doing something, it’s always boring.