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31. May 24 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 May 2007THE media really does have the power of deity when it comes to manipulation of our national heartstrings. Not that I have anything new to say about it. Madeleine McCann. Who doesn't know her name?
32. April 26 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 26 April 2007IT IS precisely fifty 'Chewing It Over' columns ago that I first ranted about stray apostrophes - and while I know that most of the signs for 'CD's', 'MOT's', and 'coffee and tea's' are for the most part just saddening for the eye, I have reason to be grateful for the grammatical poverty of our great nation.
33. April 12 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 12 April 2007BY THE time this is read, Didsbury's beloved Didsbury Village Store (known to many as the Village Saver) will be within a length of masking tape and a bottle of Windolene from closing its popular doors, and - so I'm told - Barnardo's will be preparing to open them again in this very central village location.
34. March 29 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 29 March 2007THANKS to Little Britain, the judging of competitions brings to my mind deceptively-prim late middle-aged women in lavender twin-sets with undertones of mauve-tinted racism cooing over the moistness of a rich Dundee.
35. March 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 March 2007SITTING in traffic through that bit of Chorlton which seems always to be infested with none-moving cars, despite there being no reason for it, my eyes focused on the advertisement splashed all across the back of the inevitable bus in front.
36. February 8 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 February 2007I DON'T know what makes me more cross - the wilful myopia of those in this city who feel it is a week of jubilation because Manchester has won the right to plunge its poor into untold depths of debt, or the likelihood that a really special little park in our midst, which enchants all who enter it, will be glammed up in the name of providing one man with a patina-free palace and a nice little money-spinner to boot.
37. January 25 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 25 January 2007WE ARE an easily gripped nation, are we not? Perhaps our susceptibility to being gripped results from an inner yearning to be more stimulated, more entertained, more thrilled than we feel our lives generally allow.
38. January 11 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 11 January 2007THIS week, more than any of the other 51 weeks of 2007, will have been the most labour intensive for family lawyers.
39. December 28 2006
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 28 December 2006STANDING at my photographic exhibition in Habitat, watching customers during their pre-Christmas shopping bonanza in their quest for that emergency feather bauble, has proved a fascinating anthropological experience.
40. December 7 2006
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 7 December 2006SOMETIMES, a sense of magic shrouds a place. It may not appear so magical when first visited, our senses numbed by the very presentness of what we're experiencing.