Fallen trees removed — finally
On 18 January, six trees blew over in the park near where I live. Some of them blocked one of the main paths into the park.
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Low-paying employers
The unemployed are a favourite target for government ministers and tabloid headline-writers. But, strangely, unscrupulous business-owners rarely get a mention.
BBC World and WTC Building 7 collapse on September 11
This seems quite extraordinary. This clip seems to show BBC World reporting that World Trade Centre Building 7 has collapsed on September 11th. Yet the reporter is standing in front of a window and WTC Building 7 is still standing in the distance behind her. More info here.
My Richard and Judy experience
Channel Four is in the news again over yet another possible scam. This time involving the You Say We Pay quiz on the Richard and Judy programme.
Phillip Schofield and Gordon the Gopher (video)
It’s 1986 and BBC continuity presenter Phillip Schofield and assistant Gordon the Gopher mime to the theme song of cartoon series Ulysses 31. Watch on YouTube.
‘Snow chaos’ doesn’t hit Manchester. Hundreds of thousands severely not affected by lack of weather disruption
Looking out of my high-rise window across the whole of south Manchester, the only snow I can see is about 15 miles away on the hills of the Peak District and some more further east on the hills near Stalybridge…
Briefcase ‘that changed the world’
The BBC has the story of how Britain gave away its most valuable technological secrets to America during World War Two.
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