491. Come to sunny Macc – where cremation is a leisure activity

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 16 March 2005
IF YOU have young children and live in Macclesfield school holidays must be a real problem. Where do your kids go to burn off energy?

492. What are our nurses really worth?

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 9 March 2005
IF, by any chance, you have read the vacancy board at Macclesfield Hospital you will see they require a staff nurse, salary approx £18,000pa and a bed manager salary circa £28,000pa.

493. Prescott has had his chips

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 9 March 2005
THE ALDERLEY Edge bypass saga just gets stranger and stranger.

494. It’s a dog dirt dilemma

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 2 March 2005
IT'S official... Macclesfield Borough Council is having a big push on dog dirt.

495. Vampires on the web

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 2 March 2005
WHEN I decided to create a website to enable readers to air their opinions I never anticipated such a variety of topics (71 so far with over 650 replies).

496. Fighting fire with fire

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 23 February 2005
OVER the years I've received hundreds of letters from readers disappointed or outraged by the poor response from Cheshire Police to their telephone enquiries. Waiting endlessly for an officer to pick up the phone has been replaced by a prompt answer from a call centre followed by a futile wait for the right extension. I can't count the number of times Cheshire Police have admitted a call has been 'lost' in the system, 'delayed' or simply left unanswered.

497. Was it that one was separated at one’s birth?

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 23 February 2005
I'VE just heard on the radio that Charles and Camilla are to marry.

498. Underground over ground, where should the Alderley by-pass be?

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 16 February 2005
PROBABLY the only story in the Express to run longer than the dog dirt saga is the on-off-on-off Alderley by-pass. It seems like Alderley residents have been arguing over it for decades then, just as the Government was about to cave in and build the damn thing, a Womble-like fracas erupted over where it should go in relation to the railway line.

499. Predictive technology means no ambulance required

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 9 February 2005
I AM FREQUENTLY astounded at the march of technology but never more so than when learning of the ambulance service's ability to close down local stations AND speed up response times.

500. No freedom of info at MBC

Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 9 February 2005
WHAT a great coup for Wilmslow to be chosen as the Government centre for the new Freedom of Information Act bringing over 200 jobs to the town.