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1. Shadow elections were a bit dull
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 May 2008SO, DID you cast your vote at the local elections? It was a mite confusing don’t you think? Initially I thought I was voting to elect ONE councillor; then I understood I could vote for THREE but if I voted for TWO it might negate my ballot paper but it didn’t, so I could. It was all a bit bizarre.
2. Silk Road memorial
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 May 2008HAVING been pulled over by Cheshire Police for driving ‘too slowly’ down the Silk Road, I’m well aware of the 70mph speed limit. It’s the fastest road for miles around with motorists rocketing in both directions. It’s a freeway and stopping for anything other than an emergency is obviously forbidden.
3. It's no picnic for the treetop teddy bears
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 May 2008WITH Cheshire’s roads in perpetual chaos, schools under threat and selection procedures in turmoil, isn’t it comforting to know that county councillors have their eye on the ball?
4. Rats to fortnightly collections
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 May 2008REMEMBER when politicians told us high rise flats were the housing of the future before pulling them all down 20 years later?
5. Making a hash of our reputation
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 May 2008TAKE a look at the amount of cannabis growing in that house on Bridge Street. It was only discovered after firemen attended a blaze. Had that lot gone up in smoke, the whole of Cheshire would have been stoned for a month.
6. No justice for the law-abiding
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 May 2008FOR ALL those police officers, magistrates, judges, solicitors and politicians who believe public scorn in the criminal justice system is unwarranted: read on.
7. What's so special about wardens?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 May 2008FOR THE past number of years, Macclesfield Borough Council have been shedding their responsibilities like snakeskin. Housing, highways, you name it… they don’t want it.
8. MPs are in need of leadership lessons
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 May 2008AS A KID, I often sat in our parlour listening to trade union meetings.
9. Police must give us what we want
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 April 2008I WAS ruminating today on the demise of the village bobby.
10. Residents must continue to fight
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 April 2008SOMETIMES I feel like that little boy in The Emperor’s New Clothes.