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1. Just another example of strange events in our paranormal town
Macclesfield Express, Tuesday 30 July 2002Most drivers are very aware of colliding with the curb or hitting a raised manhole cover.
2. Here's something you might like
Macclesfield Express, Tuesday 30 July 2002A gentleman by the name of Bill Tongue sent me this poem from Gdansk in Poland. I thought you might like it:
3. The NSPCC have got it wrong over discipline
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002For as long as I can remember I have supported the NSPCC. Always totally in agreement with their objectives, I find myself uncharacteristically torn by their latest campaign to make any form of physical discipline illegal.
4. Power of the people forced learning curve
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002I was looking back on some old notes today particularly those relating to the fateful Danegate planning meeting at Macclesfield Leisure centre.
5. Fear isn't the key to crimewave
Macclesfield Express, Tuesday 30 July 2002Last week Mrs B and I arranged to meet friends in town. We parked up behind the town hall and as we sauntered past the police station I could plainly hear an unanswered telephone ringing continuously inside. It was impossible not to feel sympathy for the anxious caller waiting in vain for assistance.
6. Political correctness has gone too far
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002I remember an interview with John Lennon on a TV arts programme when some posturing dilettante commented: "It is obvious that when you wrote, 'She was just 17' you were referring to the sexual inexperience of the female genre at large in British society at a particular moment in time. Were you not?" To which Lennon replied, "No, I meant 'She was just 17'."
7. After latest riots anything less than zero tolerance is simply a disgrace
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002Any lingering doubt about the decline of Macclesfield was dispelled the day England beat Argentina in the World Cup.
8. Residents have to pay the price for the mistakes of politicians
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002At last the eyesore that was Victoria Park Flats has disappeared from Macclesfield's skyline.
9. Highways Agency plays a game of now you see it, now you don't
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002I'm no good at DIY, never have been, that's why I don't do it. I've made some massive blunders over the years.
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Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 31 July 2002If I was a betting man I would have put my shirt on Wilmslow and Alderley having two of the biggest Jubilee parties in the shires.