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151. 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.
152. March 8 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 March 2007SOMEONE asked me a question today: "How would you describe yourself?" I thought for a while and replied, "Suppose I'm a bit artistic really."
153. March 1 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 March 2007Poor old Alex has been in the news a lot recently. Actually, Alex isn't that old. A mere child of seventeen and Alex isn't really a female nor is he a man. Alex is legally a child, under eighteen years of age, who has been in the national press for all the wrong reasons.
154. February 22 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 February 2007WHAT does this phrase conjure up? "They're bootiful, just bootiful'?
155. February 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 February 2007YET another government press release states that they want everybody to be able to work flexi-time. Looks good at first sight, eh? Yet what they are actually saying is that we should all have the right to ask if we can work flexible hours.
156. 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.
157. February 8 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 February 2007SO WHAT'S your favourite bedtime activity? Come on be honest! When you think about bed what's the first thing that pops into your mind?
158. February 1 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 February 2007JUST for a minute, forget your stressful life, close your eyes and go back in time, take a trip down memory lane. To a land before the Internet, before semi-automatic pistols, joy riders and crack cocaine.
159. January 25 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 25 January 2007THERE are some weird and amazing facts and figures in our little world aren't there? Did you know that most car horns honk in the key of F? I wouldn't know what the key of F sounded like anyway but it's good that a musical note can save us.
160. 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.