In a surprise development last night, Phil Burke the chairman of the Village Business Association issued a statement.
Watch the six minute video (super-widescreen format!). It includes two minutes of exclusive archive footage of August Bank Holiday 1991.
A trailer to embed and share can be found here on YouTube.
The real facts and figures behind Pride can be found here.
Manchester Pride 2008 opened last night. A group of 18 year olds gathered to (more…)
The water company is digging up the road at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street. They’re replacing the old Victorian water pipes.
If you want an example of how the current economic situation is hitting retailers, take a walk along Manchester’s King Street.
The property crisis continues, with Manchester one of the cities that stands to be most severely affected (along with Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield), in part due to over-supply. And it seems to me that many of the ‘luxury’ apartments in the city centre are anything but.
Parked at a junction, on double yellow lines, in a bus lane and blocking a cycle path, on Wilmslow Road next to the Contact Theatre, at 7.30pm last night (Friday 1 August).
The driver was nowhere to be seen and the passenger was reading a celebrity magazine with an article about Britney Spears.
In my opinion the area between here and Platt Fields Park is one of the most dangerous for cyclists in the whole of Manchester.
Manchester Pride has admitted that it is unable to explain figures that were quoted by its Chairman Andrew Stokes in an interview that appeared on the rainbownetwork.com (gaydarnation.com) website in August 2007.



