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1. Anyone could see outcome of bars that target the young
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 29 August 2007CHIEF Constables get no accolades for speaking out. In fact it's highly prejudicial to their career; better to keep quiet or regurgitate the party line approved by Whitehall.
2. Whatever happened to all the patients?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 29 August 2007DRIVING down Victoria Road today I spotted a sign for 'luxury apartments with panoramic views' on the site of the old Parkside Hospital.
3. Has anybody ever seen anyone completing community punishment?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 29 August 2007ACCORDING to the Sentencing Advisory Panel, yobs who breach ASBOs and conmen who trick the elderly out of keepsakes and cash should be given community punishment, rather than sent to prison.
4. Never mind the cars and factories, it’s the cows that are the cause of global warming
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 1 August 2007ISN'T it amazing how badly you can get things wrong? Up until this week I was convinced global warming was the result of large gas-guzzling vehicles like the Range Rover our ex Prime Minister recently acquired or the giant people carrier purchased by his charming wife.
5. Joe Henshaw must be mad giving the council tax payers what they want!
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 1 August 2007WHAT precisely is Joe Henshaw doing? Does he not realise the unrest he's causing using his famous skip hire company to provide a weekly household rubbish collection?
6. Pride of Wincle bricks
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 15 August 2007HOW expensive are bricks in Wincle?
7. We can work out for ourselves when we feel safe
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 22 August 2007THE front-page headline recently in the Wilmslow Express states 'Armed Robbers Threaten Pub Staff' whilst the Macclesfield edition led with a story of a councillor so distressed after a shift spent watching drunken kids attacking adults on CCTV he was unable to sleep.
8. What about Chelford residents?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 15 August 2007LIKE everyone, I was floored by the news of a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth. Where will it lead us this time? I thought of the consequence to farming, business (and animals); then I remembered something odd.
9. Pledge to reduce tax must be honoured
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 22 August 2007HOW reassuring to hear that council tax will actually be REDUCED once the new East Cheshire Authority replaces both Macclesfield Borough Council and the old, defunct Cheshire County Council.
10. Time for a best-kept estate competition?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 15 August 2007I WAS walking my dog on the grass verge around the Weston Estate last night and almost trod on a beer bottle with the neck snapped off in a vicious needlepoint. Having seen a dog lose a leg after an encounter with a broken bottle, I know the kind of injuries broken glass can inflict.