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1. Beware! Citizens will be getting angry
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 May 2006READING last week's article about community punishment, I couldn't help but reflect on that day two years ago when I visited offenders. I wonder where they (and their victims) are now.
2. Don’t worry, I’ll fly the flag
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 May 2006ACCORDING to recent reports, councils around the country are banning the flag of St George on the run-up to the World Cup.
3. Bigger plane, bigger problems
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 May 2006WOW! Did you see the new A380 airbus? I know it's the future of international air transportation and all that, but I couldn't help wondering just how many germs will circulate in a cabin containing 800 passengers? We'll be catching diseases no-one's ever heard of.
4. Politicians should live by our rules
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 May 2006HAVE you noticed that when Boxing Day arrives, summer holiday adverts appear on TV before you have the chance to draw breath? Politics is exactly the same.
5. Police reaction time is of great concern to all
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 May 2006HOW ironic that on the day Cheshire Police boasted that local crime statistics had proved the borough to be one of the safest areas in Britain, a gang armed with sledgehammers and samurai swords staged a violent daylight raid on a jeweller's no more than 200 yards from Macclesfield police station.
6. Binmen are not to blame
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 17 May 2006PROBABLY the most unglamorous job in the borough is refuse collection.
7. Accused are now ‘clients’
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 10 May 2006I HAVE just received a public information booklet from Her Majesty's Inspector of Court Administration.
8. How can ward closures help the mentally sick?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 10 May 2006THIS week's Patricia Hewitt Award goes to Val McGee of the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust who says proposed bed closures at Jocelyn Solly and Lime Walk House "may look like service cuts but are, in fact, increased community services".
9. A school reunion which left me firmly in the drink
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 10 May 2006WHEN the e-mail arrived I was intrigued. A girl I hadn't seen for 40 years told me she was organising a school reunion and invited me to attend.
10. I cannot be bought; the wife won’t allow it
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 3 May 2006DO YOU know what really makes me mad? People suggesting I get freebies to write favourable stories. Let me make this absolutely clear: apart from a very nice dinner I once had at Stanneylands for defending their cuisine against Michael Winner (and a knuckle bone Marshall Spearing gave me for our dog) I've never been offered a thing.