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1. Why I have lost respect for Esther
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 2 August 2006I WAS flicking channels on the TV last night (it's a man thing) when I spotted what I perceived to be the Esther Rantzen Show.
2. Worms are all you need to replace unsightly wheelie bins
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 2 August 2006HAVING been inundated with letters, emails and faxes about wheelie bins I think I have the answer.
3. Winterton is the voice of disenchanted constituents
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 2 August 2006JUDGING by last week's letters page Sir Nicholas Winterton expressed the opinion of many of his constituents when he urged the deportation of immigrants who commit criminal acts.
4. Save our Ho-ho-hospital
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 16 August 2006A DECISION on the fate of services for women and children at Macclesfield Hospital has been delayed due to 'unprecedented public response'. The announcement will now be made in December and is in no way influenced by the fact that unpopular decisions are easier to bury during a public holiday.
5. Just how do you engineer this mess?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 9 August 2006THERE was a row of coaches waiting outside Macclesfield station this morning; always an ominous sign.
6. Don’t give up, our councillors are alive!
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 23 August 2006I DO GET tired of misleading surveys: house prices are down, unemployment's up, inflation's heading for double figures, etc, and now the latest statistics suggest over 160,000 letters each year are delivered to dead people in Macclesfield.
7. Whatever happened to “Bird Flu” virus?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 16 August 2006DO you remember the Millennium Bug? How many businesses was that going to cripple? Aircraft would fall from the sky, emergency services grind to a halt, banking collapse. Billions of pounds was spent to cope with a catastrophe experts around the world claimed to be inevitable. What happened? Not a damn thing, even the digital watch I bought from Asda for a fiver treated the turn of the century like any other day.
8. Bullies are just plain ugly
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 30 August 2006I WAS so glad to hear Macclesfield student Jade Prest had finally broken free from the intimidation of school bullies.
9. Why would sat-nav theft throw us off course?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 30 August 2006I WAS interested to read that a Sat-Nav system had been snatched from the open window of a car parked on London Road Macclesfield.
10. Are we all as dumb as Virgin think?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 16 August 2006I HAVE to tell you this. I was pushed for time today and decided to write this week's column on the train. Before I finished the first paragraph my computer flickered and gave a low-battery warning just as the ticket inspector arrived.