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1. Piles of junk mail show politicians' hypocrisy
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 November 2007I PICKED up a magazine from WHSmith today; it carried enough promotional inserts to leave a paper trail to Lower Peover.
2. School run turns mums tangerine with rage
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 November 2007I TOOK my overseas visitors to Manchester Airport this Monday during the morning rush. It’s a scary experience. You could end up as a missing person winding your way around Macclesfield.
3. Bidding fond farewell to a great lady
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 November 2007ONE OF my closest friends lost his mother this week. Although in her eighties and in failing health, her demise came as a shock.
4. Licensing committee is spineless in face of big business
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 November 2007IT CAN come as no surprise to anyone that recent figures produced by North West Public Health Portal show Macclesfield Borough to have one of the worst binge drinking problems in the country, ranking 341 out of a total of 352 councils surveyed.
5. Help Cinderellas of charity world
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 November 2007WE ALL know we’ll be inundated with requests from professional, well-organised charities on the run-up to Christmas. It’s the time of year they expect big donations and good to them but what about those lesser-known charities that don’t have celebrity concerts and black tie dinners? How do they survive?
6. Driving along in my automobile
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 November 2007WE WERE returning home from a night out in Poynton when a police patrol car pulled me over.
7. I'm taking the Lewis Hamilton direction
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 November 2007FOLLOWING Formula One star Lewis Hamilton’s defection to Switzerland to avoid autograph hunters (and tax) the Express plans to secrete me away presumably to protect my artistic integrity from the hordes of readers clamouring for my attention (or blood).
8. Give us results for an increase in tax
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 November 2007CHESHIRE Police say they have a massive funding gap to plug and are commissioning a MORI poll to gauge public support for a 30 per cent hike in the police precept portion of our property tax, adding around £2.93 a month to a Band D home.
9. Why Lewis didn't win
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 November 2007WHY was anyone surprised to see Lewis Hamilton fail in his attempt to win the Formula One Championship in the Brazilian Grand Prix?
10. Pal's ashes went in vac
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 November 2007I READ the sad case today of a lady who had visited her father’s ashes for 25 years, only to find out they were actually 15 miles away on a funeral director’s shelf.