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Tuesday 5 August 2008

How ASDA prevents customers from making price comparisons

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Filed under: Consumer, Shopping, Food & cookery — gary @ 11:10 pm

Tram lines on Peter Street

The water company is digging up the road at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street. They’re replacing the old Victorian water pipes.

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Filed under: History, Manchester — gary @ 6:55 am

King Street: from Starbucks to no bucks

If you want an example of how the current economic situation is hitting retailers, take a walk along Manchester’s King Street.

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Filed under: Consumer, Shopping, Manchester — gary @ 5:22 am

Manchester’s luxury apartments

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.

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Filed under: Buildings, Manchester — gary @ 1:42 am
Saturday 2 August 2008

Cycling hazard: MA52 EHY

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).

Selfish driver

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.

Filed under: Environment, Manchester — gary @ 5:25 pm
Friday 1 August 2008

Scientists turn water into rocket fuel using solar panels

‘Scientists have devised a cheap and simple method of turning water into rocket fuel using solar power in a development that could generate a new source of green energy for the home and workplace.’

The Independent.

Filed under: Environment — gary @ 1:34 am
Friday 18 July 2008

Video sniffing

Channel 4 News reveals how film-makers are using footage from public cctv cameras. It’s called ‘video sniffing’.

Filed under: Video-making — gary @ 5:45 am
Tuesday 8 July 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Manchester Pride ‘unable to substantiate’ claims made in press interview with Chairman

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.

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Filed under: Consumer, Gay, Manchester — gary @ 6:30 pm
Friday 4 July 2008

Security guards refuse free entry to the Manchester Pride AIDS candlelight vigil (video)

FULL VIDEO REPORT COMING SOON

The candlelight AIDS vigil on the final night of Manchester Pride has always been a key event and, to some people, the most important part.

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Filed under: Rushes, Documentary, Posts that include video, Gay, Manchester, Politics — gary @ 12:35 pm
Wednesday 25 June 2008

Heinz pulls ad for unhealthy Deli Mayo due to ‘gay’ kiss

Heinz has pulled a TV ad which featured a kiss between two men, following 200 complaints from viewers. Some of them complained that it was unsuitable for children. However the ad was banned from being shown in and around kids’ shows anyway because the unhealthy Deli Mayo product is high in fat, salt or sugar, not because of the same sex kiss.

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Filed under: Consumer, Gay, Food & cookery — gary @ 4:35 am
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