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471. August 30 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 30 August 2007THE excitement of the A level and GCSE results is calming down. I'm glad.
472. 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.
473. 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.
474. 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.
475. 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.
476. 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.
477. June 28 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 28 June 2007POLITENESS versus rudeness. That is to be the theme of this week's column. Why? Because old-fashioned concepts that they are, these are the litmus tests of how successful our city can be now its industrial heritage is just that - heritage - and its present industry is supposedly that of service.
478. June 14 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 14 June 2007SITTING in Didsbury Deli having ordered a very sensible salad and wishing my resolve could weaken enough for me to change my order to a thick wedge of chocolate orange cake, I'm reading an article in one of the Sundays about front doors.