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1. It was a lonely phone-in
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 21 December 2005WE WERE all a bit nervous on our first Canalside Radio phone-in show. I'd invited an ex Mississippi police chief to join us and hoped for a good response. Policing is a hot topic so I was confident we'd have a lot of calls.
2. It could only happen in Macclesfield
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 21 December 2005WHEN I heard about the cook shop video to promote an onion chopper that suddenly morphed into a porn film I almost fell out of the car laughing... until they said it happened in Macclesfield. How do we do it?
3. Hapless bureaucrats will face a rebellion if they ignore 38,000 residents
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 December 2005I RECEIVED the first edition of a free newspaper today entitled 'Your Local NHS'.
4. They love each other so why shouldn’t they marry?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 14 December 2005ON MY very first visit to Macclesfield the front page of the Advertiser was devoted to the children's Whit Walks.
5. Canalside Radio shows true sense of community
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 December 2005CANALSIDE Radio's frequency has changed.
6. Life’s choices were so black and white in the days of my youth
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 7 December 2005I HEARD two young girls talking at the cosmetic counter in Boots today.
7. More change to our police? Oh super!
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 November 2005I AM distinctly unimpressed with talk of a police super force to replace Cheshire Police. If there is one thing officers and public do not need it's more change.
8. ‘PC’ claptrap must fill Meredith with despair
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 November 2005I KNEW nothing about James Meredith until my recent visit to Oxford, Mississippi where on a tumultuous day in October, 1962, Mr Meredith became the first black student to enrol at Ole Miss University.
9. Bullies rule okay?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 November 2005HAVE you been into a school classroom lately? Try it, you may get a surprise especially if it's a comprehensive. The language is appalling and shouting back at frustrated teachers commonplace. Apparently there is an epidemic of bullying and I can't say I'm surprised when the penalty for random violence is a few days isolation.
10. Management to blame for health crisis
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 23 November 2005AS anyone awaiting treatment will know Macclesfield General Hospital has a huge budget deficit.