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Monday October 30, 2006
No comment. Great TV.
SOMETIMES, I have to confess, it’s much better to get a “no comment” than an interview when we’re reporting a story for Channel M.
And the ruder the better.
Yes, it LOOKED dodgy.
IT must have looked dodgy.
I was walking along Dantzic Street near the city centre looking in the window of every car parked there.
Friday October 27, 2006
Tram rage (again)
I’D have thought that Metrolink would be only too pleased to make it as easy as possible to buy tickets and passes. Of course, I’m wrong.
Corrie's big so what?
SO, Coronation Street MIGHT move. Well, the set might. About two-and-a-half miles to Salford Quays.
It would be in another local authority’s patch. And Granada would pay business rates to Salford instead of Manchester.
Am I alone in thinking “so what”?
The integration game
WE keep hearing a lot about how Asian people – and especially Muslims – should integrate with society.
Commons leader Jack Straw brought the debate to a head when he said he asked women to remove their veils when they spoke to him.
For anyone who can listen to the radio or make a phone call, I fail to see how understanding anyone wearing a veil is particularly difficult.
Kim Jong-Il in Newton Heath
IN Newton Heath the other day, I wondered whether I’d stumbled through some sort of break in the space/time continuum and ended up in North Korea.
I was at a Manchester Council depot on Grimshaw Lane.
The people working there were perfectly pleasant and didn’t look as though they were plotting nuclear bomb tests.
Behind them something sinister lurked.
Closely-guarded secret
I WENT around Stockport’s fascinating air raid shelters a couple of weeks ago.
They’re carved into the sandstone under the town centre. They’re where hundreds of Stopfordians sheltered during the Blitz.
Sunday October 08, 2006
The snobbery ladder
HOUSE prices have risen by 10 per cent in a year in south Manchester, apparently.
This has sent the middle classes into paroxysms of hand-wringing and despair. What about the first-time buyers, they all cry.
Well, what about them?
Slippery slope to Satanism
Two weeks ago, Asda already had an aisle devoted to it.
And, right on cue, along comes a bishop (the Bishop of Bolton in this case) to denounce it.
Young children find it too scary, he wails. They should have bright things and celebrate the eve of All Saints’ Day.
For pity’s sake! It isn’t the slippery slope to Satanism.
Double mellow lines
I WAS invited to a well-known local institution to film the other day.
We had driven and we didn’t know where to park, so we left it on the double yellows (don’t worry it’s not going to be a boring “woe-is-me-I-was-booked” story) outside and popped in.
Voices of the people
PART of my job entails going into the street and talking to people for what we call a “vox pop” (short for vox populi, Latin for voice of the people – and they say television is no respecter of high culture).
I was sent to Moss Side to ask about the current gun amnesty.
Pay for the pleasure of buying
MY partner has just spent £80.25 on the internet getting tickets for one pensioner and two of us to go and see Chicago at the Opera House in Manchester in October.
But £10.75 of that is booking charges. It costs £2.75 per full-paying adult and £2.50 for each pensioner.
Debate? What debate?
I SPENT more than six bum-numbing hours this week listening to a debate over the future of the health service.
More specifically, it was the health service in the north east of Greater Manchester (north Manchester, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale). Even more specifically, it was Rochdale. And it wasn’t really a debate at all.
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