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


