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1. Make a leap to Frog Day
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008DISCOVER more fascinating facts about the Great War in a terribly good exhibition.
2. Arty options for children
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008HELP bring out your children’s artistic side during the summer holidays – and buy yourself a spot of sanity!
3. Party in the Park
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008MUSIC: Hallé/ Music of Dirty Dancing & Björn Again, Tatton Park, Sat 1 and Sun 2 Aug: DIG out those platform shoes and be prepared to carry a watermelon – on Sunday night Tatton Park is the place to be for fans of ABBA and Dirty Dancing.
4. DRAMA: Tape, Taurus, Canal Street, Friday 1 Aug
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008A CULT play turned into a film starring Hollywood A-listers Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman is heading for Manchester.
5. Brother in arms
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008WHEN Bob Woosnam-Savage was a student at Manchester University he found a treasure trove in the city of the things he loved: arms, armoury and films.
6. Hello, hello, hello ....
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008STEP inside Greater Manchester Police Museum in Newton Street and you immediately go back to the city’s seedy past of gas lamps, ale houses and narrow alleys. It’s Life on Mars for everyone – which is particularly apt as the museum staff actively helped the BBC with 1973 authenticity for the popular TV series.
7. FESTIVAL: A Day at the Races, Moho Live, Tib Street, and Night and Day, Oldham Street, Saturday 2 Aug
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008IF YOU'RE a festival organiser, it must be tempting to think ‘big’ equals better – big venues, big headline acts and big megabucks sponsorship deals.
8. CHILDREN: Barney Live!, Stockport Plaza, Sunday 3 Aug
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008EVERYONE’S favourite purple dinosaur is set to delight youngsters in his show Barney Live! at the Stockport Plaza on Sunday.
9. A much better finale to school than our depressing assembly
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008WASN’T it wonderful to see photos of all those young people attending their school Prom in the Express?
10. Our lot have a lot to learn from Obama
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 30 July 2008THE MORE I learn of Barack Obama, the more impressed I become. Hitting out at absentee black fathers, Mr Obama said parents need to ‘teach our sons to treat women with respect and to realise responsibility does not end at conception’.