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1. My alternative New Year honours
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 16 January 2008IF THE Queen can have her New Year’s Honours List I’m sure she’ll allow me mine. So, here it is ...
2. Time to appreciate our proud heritage - while we still can
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 16 January 2008I’VE DONE a lot of travelling these last few weeks in North America and Hong Kong and the two things that struck me most were their sobriety and good manners.
3. Is language 'top' or 'minging'? Let me know ...
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 23 January 2008AS AN avid lover of language, I’m always on the look-out for descriptive words and phrases people use.
4. Take a modern glimpse at our industrial past
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 23 January 2008IF YOU want to know what Britain was like during the Industrial Revolution, go to China.
5. Let's all vote on our pay!
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 23 January 2008AS I WRITE this week’s column, Members of Parliament are preparing to vote on their own salary increase.
6. No shock on trust targets
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 23 January 2008IT CAME as no surprise to hear that East Cheshire NHS Trust is failing to meet its targets.
7. Puppies - not just for Christmas
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 9 January 2008YOU KNOW I’m not a sentimentalist when it comes to animals, but this poem I received really hit home.
8. Fairy godmother Hazel has waved her magic wand
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 9 January 2008IT’S TRUE – our fairy godmother has finally rid us of the pantomime that was Cheshire County Council. In one wave of her magic wand Hazel Blears decreed that from All Fools Day 2009 they will no longer rule the county.
9. Time for community to show they care
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 30 January 2008WITH the approach of Christmas the Reverend Ian Sparks might have expected some expression of goodwill for his church on the Weston Estate.
10. How can NHS justify £5M payout
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 30 January 2008I’VE LOST count of the number of friends and neighbours who went into hospital with one condition and acquired another.