Last summer, Trading Standards told the organisers of Manchester Pride to cease publishing material that claimed crowd figures of 200,000 or 250,000 people at the Saturday Pride parade. (more…)
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.
I just managed to catch the young swallows leaving the nest on the BBC Springwatch live webcam. Cute.
It was a great show this year, especially the ‘Nightshift’ infrared cameras after midnight, which have regularly featured the antics of badgers. It has had better viewing figures than the Big Brother live feed. I hope the late show will be back next year.
All of which is a good excuse to show my photo of swallows yet again!

I would love to rig up a live camera one year.
The illegal invasion and war in Iraq has cost every person in Britain (all sixty million of us) £88 each.
‘The figures were released as MPs protested about the plight of Britain’s NHS hospitals’: The Independent.