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How ASDA prevents customers from making price comparisons

GS — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:10:28 +0000

The latest sneaky trick from British Telecom

GS — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:49:53 +0000

For some time now British Telecom has charged customers on its most basic plan (Together Option One) 4.5p for evening and weekend calls of up to an hour. After sixty minutes the call continues at 1p per minute.

Shopping victims

GS — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:41:34 +0000

I was looking through my high-definition video footage of the 2007 Manchester Pride parade and found this frame which seems to sums up much of what is wrong with our community today.

Manchester Pride 2007 raised just £95,000 for good causes

GS — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:38:06 +0000

For a second year running, Manchester Pride has raised one of the lowest amounts in its 17 year history. Just £95,000.

This is despite the highest ticket prices ever (some people paid £18) and more than 40,000 tickets sold according to a report on the LGF website.

Not enough time to pay as required

GS — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:58:07 +0000

I keep getting letters that arrive many days after the date of writing stated on the letter. Sometimes the letter asks me to pay by a certain date and to allow a number of days for payment to reach them.

No refund after foot cut by faulty 4-month-old boot from United Footwear, Oldham Street, Manchester

GS — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:44:14 +0000

In May I paid £29.99 for a pair of ‘hiking boots’ from United Footwear in Oldham Street Manchester, which is in the ‘Northern Quarter’ area.

Help needed after the fire in Lever Street, Manchester on 30 April

GS — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:14:04 +0000

On 30 April, just four days after I wrote about the Basement Social Centre in Manchester city centre and said what a unique and absolutely spiffing place it was, a huge fire ripped through a building to the rear of it.
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Victorian Manchester: ‘Bank Robbery And Suicide’ in Didsbury

GS — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:16 +0000

We tend to think that guns, robberies and violent crime in Manchester are modern phenomena. But there was lots of it going on in Victorian times too. Even in Didsbury (heaven forbid).

Bye bye Operation Fundraiser

GS — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:38:27 +0000

The Manchester Pride website reports that Operation Fundraiser will be ‘will be hanging up its buckets’ this year.

Manchester Pride 2007 poster — no mention of gay, lesbian, bi or transgender (video)

GS — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:07:51 +0000

The poster for Manchester Pride 2007 is out and about. But nowhere on it will you see the words ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’, ‘bi’ or ‘transgender’. The nearest you’ll get is the phrase ‘LGBT charities’.