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1. Parking is such sweet sorrow
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 25 May 2005THIS is a difficult time for local retailers with the Trafford Centre enticing customers away and Handforth Dean, John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury's, etcetera all providing one stop shopping our town centres are in serious decline. Four large retailers, including Next, have recently withdrawn from Wilmslow's Grove Street, now a pale shadow of the bustling shopping centre it once was.
2. Macc Borough Council loves consulting these consultants
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 25 May 2005I'M RATHER curious to learn how much of our hard-earned cash Macclesfield Borough Council spend on 'consultants'.
3. Let us get real now shall we?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 18 May 2005THE PRIME Minister's obvious discomfort at learning that the effect of his 48-hour target set for GPs' appointments led to surgeries forbidding appointments more than two days in advance was an embarrassment. Like many in authority the PM didn't know the difference between 'theory' and 'practice'.
4. And it’s goodnight from him
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 18 May 2005"I'LL BE giving your Thursday show a big build up," said Nick Wright talking me into holding a live phone-in on Canalside, his new community radio station.
5. Town Hall afflicted by amnesia
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 11 May 2005CONGRATULATIONS to Macclesfield Borough Council's specialist benefit fraud team whose covert surveillance has uncovered false benefit claims totalling £82,000 in the past 12 months (how much it actually costs to run this team no one will say).
6. I get ticked off and women just laugh
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 11 May 2005WHY do women find such great amusement in the physical discomfort of their men folk?
7. A true American hero
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 4 May 2005AS UK correspondent for an international dog training magazine I do receive some very generous invitations; the most recent was to a retriever trial in Mississippi.
8. Canalside radio hits the airways
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 4 May 2005TODAY, Wednesday May 4, Canalside Community Radio hits the airwaves. The first in an exciting new era of community radio Canalside is the brainchild of well known local DJ Nick Wright.
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