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1. £3million pay deal for running Royal Mail into the ground
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 18 June 2008HAS there ever been a more clueless managing director than Adam Crozier? Having achieved absolutely nothing at the FA he’s somehow managed to generate the first operating loss in Royal Mail’s illustrious history.
2. Can you tell me who this Piffy is?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 18 June 2008I WAS passing Pete’s Chippy when an old chap on the opposite side of Duke Street asked if it was open. I shook my head and he replied: "I’m fair clemmed."
3. Youths breaching their Asbos are spared jail
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 18 June 2008PROPOSALS from the Sentencing Guidelines Council suggest young offenders breaching their Anti-Social Behaviour Orders should be spared jail if they have been led astray by ‘peer pressure’ or claim to have unsupportive parents.
4. Salary scandal
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 11 June 2008WHAT'S the appropriate salary for a Prime Minister running the fourth largest economy in the world with a population of 60 million? You’ll be interested to know that Gordon Brown earns £189,994.
5. Macc - theatre of the absurd
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 11 June 2008WHEN it comes to the absurd you can always rely on Macclesfield folk. If you thought Cheshire County Council had gone ga-ga spending a reported £60K of your money removing just four newts from Fallibroome High School you are not alone.
6. Our maternal instincts have gone to the dogs
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 11 June 2008AS I read that wonderful front-page story in the Macclesfield Express of the golden retriever nursing a litter of kittens I though about our own dog Bustle.
7. Like it or not, we're not winning the war on drugs
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 11 June 2008SO, SOME poor unsuspecting Chinese man has been arrested on the Macclesfield premises of a cannabis farm. Ah Tong Lin was in debt to Chinese gangsters for his illegal passage to England and ended up in the dock like a frightened rabbit.
8. What a waste
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 4 June 2008IF YOU were planning to sell a business, would it be useful to increase prices by 12 per cent, keep your customers in the dark and make the business appear as profitable as possible before maximising your selling price?
9. Would poet Browning be averse to the outbreak of Wilmslow rats?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 4 June 2008"THEY fought the dogs and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles ...
10. Fighting crime is not a popularity contest
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 4 June 2008CHESHIRE’S chief constable Peter Fahy certainly does not court popularity. A few months ago he condemned supermarkets and breweries for promoting cheap booze, he hit out at feckless youths and irresponsible parents, and now he speaks out against inequality within his own organisation.