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601. Secrecy over Legionnaire’s simply Parr for the course
Macclesfield Express, Thursday 8 April 2004DO you recall how government guidelines on mad cow disease changed on a daily basis after each reassurance they gave us proved to be a fallacy?
602. I leave you for one week and look what happens...
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 March 2004I SPENT last week chasing Labradors around rural America and completely lost touch with world events.
603. And here is the weather
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 March 2004Here is the long-range weather forecast for Macclesfield, Wilmslow and surrounding areas...
604. Impoverished Chinese immigrants put our anti-social yobs to shame
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 March 2004Flying home from Atlanta last week I found myself sat at the back of the aircraft opposite the toilets... lovely. There was a Chinese student in the next seat on his way home to Manchester.
605. Nutty taboos are turning youngsters into wimps!
Macclesfield Express, Tuesday 23 March 2004A YOUNG boy told me today that he was not allowed to take peanut butter sandwiches to school in case another child with an allergy caught the smell and lapsed into a coma.
606. Sculpture’s a real hoot
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 March 2004I was walking my older dogs in Macclesfield Forest this week when I spotted the biggest owl I had ever seen looking straight at us.
607. The FA so quick to bully the small guy
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 March 2004So the Football Association want to investigate financial irregularities at Macclesfield Football Club do they? How bold of them to arrive mob-handed and confiscate documents concerning the building of the McAlpine stadium.
608. Backward fire service shows us way forward
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 March 2004OVER the years I have received thousands of complaints about public services but never one about the fire service. No-one ever wrote me saying 'the fire brigade were too busy to attend', or 'we waited all day for a fire engine'.
609. True Blue suitably unimpressed with passport for Yanks
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 3 March 2004I have just been informed that I am to be team coach to the first American Retriever Team ever to set foot on these shores. I know it's not like being England Rugby Team manager but it's a start.
610. Are YOU sitting comfortably?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 3 March 2004So borough Chief Executive David Parr is 'comfortable' with a council tax rise of 8.4 percent. Well bully for him, if I earned his salary I'd be 'comfortable' too, in fact I'd be ecstatic.