Shackled with the day-to-day running of Pledge's Purer Pickles, Nellie's real aim was to be accepted into Colne's upper echelons of society, just to have tea with the Women's Guild would have been ...

Joshua Pledge, owner of Pledge's Purer Pickles, has all but turned his toes and shuffled off to the great pickling shed in the sky. And although he has promised his set of false teeth (with plenty of ...