A Cotswold Diary: Farmer Clarkson
Post-Brexit, high profile farmer, Jeremy Clarkson, is furious with the Conservative government. And he’s by no means the only one.
Read moreAnn Holland is a retired headteacher with a strong record of improving school performance, achieving an OFSTED 'outstanding' ranking 4 times. She has also been a school governor, National Trust worker, a volunteer for Cotswold Warden support charities, a performer in several music groups, a Labour Party Officer and a student support volunteer. Born on Merseyside, she is an avid Liverpool supporter as well as a good painter, contributing a diary and many pictures to Central Bylines.
Post-Brexit, high profile farmer, Jeremy Clarkson, is furious with the Conservative government. And he’s by no means the only one.
Read moreA recent Stratford4Europe street stall in Stratford-upon-Avon shows that people are changing their mind about the benefits of EU law...
Read moreOnly 14% of England’s rivers can be classified as having a ‘good’ ecological status. Without action, that figure will drop...
Read moreThe University of Gloucester has been awarded £40,000 for a new research project aimed at improving the wellbeing of urban...
Read moreThere are no advantages to Brexit. Ann Holland looks back on how our decision to leave the EU has affected...
Read moreNadhim Zahawi was sacked over the weekend for not paying taxes.
Read moreIn the latest piece for her diary, Ann Holland reflects on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Read moreSeeing children and the elderly enjoying each other’s company really brings home the true spirit of Christmas
Read moreClimate change, illegal building and deforestation lead to catastrophe, after flash floods on Ischia.
Read moreAnn Holland deplores the effect that twelve years of Conservative government has had on our country.
Read moreA successful new distillery in the Cotswolds has led to a big increase in heavy traffic through Ann Holland’s Cotswold...
Read moreAnn Holland highlights the most interesting commentary about last week’s Autumn Statement.
Read moreThis year, thousands of people across the UK took part in The Great Big Green Week at the end of...
Read moreThis evening at 7pm, we finished supper and then I went up to the attic to enjoy Channel 4 News....
Read moreAnn Holland spends an immersive three days at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
Read moreAnn Holland reflects back on you meetings with Her Majesty.
Read moreI was born near the largest of the oil and gas refineries along the River Mersey. In my childhood, our family...
Read moreI’ve been to Russia twice. First in 2005 when I went to Tomsk in Siberia, just north of Mongolia. That...
Read moreAnn Holland remembers when you could see the fish and wash our hands in the water of the Stour.
Read moreAnn Holland reflects on Cotswold Badgers, bog waters and Brownsea Island
Read moreAnn Holland reflects on the life of scientist James Lovelock
Read moreAnn Holland reflects back on her old school and this years A level results.
Read moreI see Boris Johnson has finally celebrated his wedding - how many’s that now?
Read moreAnn Holland laments some disastrous decisions that have led to a lack of medical facilities in her area
Read moreAnn Holland records a febrile few days in her diary
Read moreAnn reflects on The Northern Ireland Protocol
Read moreAnn Holland reflects on the events of Saturday 28 May 2022 at the UEFA Champions League in Paris.
Read moreIn this latest Ann Holland's diary the question is asked why do so few women get the jobs they deserve?
Read moreValerii Semenov – the man who worked non-stop for 35 days under Russian occupation to keep the Chernobyl nuclear site...
Read moreI restarted art when I Ieft my school. One Saturday a parent of a pupil of mine was in Rollright...
Read moreWe are a not-for-profit citizen journalism publication. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in Central England and beyond.
Central Bylines is a trading brand of Bylines Network Limited, which is a partner organisation to Byline Times.
Learn more about us