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Police are getting a grip

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on May 15, 2008 8:19 AM

FROM The Daily Telegraph, May 6: A disabled war widow who has refused to pay her council tax for two years has fled abroad to escape arrest.

So it’s come to this, has it?
Inspector Gripper of the Yard looked up in scarlet faced fury when his sergeant jabbed him stiletto style with the bad news.

“She’s flown chief. Done a runner. Scarpered. Gaff’s empty. No trace. Searched. No passport. Spain’s favourite.”

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Signs of artistic ambitions in highways department

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on May 8, 2008 1:46 PM

THIS country has developed a serious problem to go with all the others. This one borders on obsessional.

We cannot resist tinkering with our roads, adding this, putting in that. Usually, it is in the name of safety, but sometimes I do wonder.

Our relationship with roadways seems to be one of gardens and gardeners.

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The local elections are all about power, Cheshire – and expenses

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on April 29, 2008 11:35 AM

Sorry to bother you. If you’ve a few moments to spare I won’t keep you long. I know you’re pushed. Who isn’t these days?

I was wondering if you were intending to vote tomorrow and whether you had made your mind up yet, because I’d like you to vote for me.

Yes, that’s right, in the elections.

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Industry gets into bed with university

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on April 22, 2008 12:17 PM

ONE of the country’s newest universities is offering a degree in selling beds. The Britain we live in, eh?

It is what would have been called a training course in your day.
Now it comes with a cap and gown and two years’ obligatory student drunken revelry.
But for being born in the wrong era I would have enrolled myself and happily moved into the halls of residence. Not only would I have bedded the pretty little blonde-haired girl down the corridor I’d have sold her the mattress as well.

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Is trip on spaceship truly out of this world?

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on April 17, 2008 1:58 PM

WEIGHING up what to do for my hols, I was torn between a rainy week in a caravan in Abergele – it always rains in Abergele – and joining the first civilian space flight on Virgin Galactic’s spaceship Two Feather. They are now taking bookings, you know.

Abergele stands on a direct route for the rain clouds from Snowdonia. All the while, it is sunny in Llandudno. You can see it sort of shimmering in the distance.
But the cheap caravans are in Abergele, or Towyn if you are the fun-loving sort. If there’s a caravan site, there is always a shop and social club nearby, so there’s no end of things you can do if it is raining.

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Dramania Performing Arts

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on April 10, 2008 8:50 AM

Dramania Performing Arts is all about music, street dance and drama... oh... and having loads of fun along the way! We encouage active involvement in performing arts for young people who are serious about a career in the arts or for those students who just like to showcase their talents. Dramania Performing Arts is headed up by Artistic Director, Bryan Povey who has almost thirty years experience in the performing arts! Bryan is also supported by professional sound engineers, lighting directors, choreographers, musical directors and administration staff.

The Dramania Team, believe in giving each student the chance to shine and showcase their talents that they have learned from us. We will give each student the opportunity to work in a professional theatre environment and become the star that they truly are!

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Vale Royal Lions invite you to an afternoon of music with the Lions Youth Band at The Hollies Farm Shop

Posted by Vale Royal Lions on April 9, 2008 6:47 PM

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Make My Dream Come True

Posted by Kingsley Road Kid on April 8, 2008 1:13 PM

The first time I watched Runcorn FC, I was seven year old boy. My Dad had just beaten the ‘bookie’ with a ‘Six Penny accumulator’ and won over £11 on the horses! He took us to Canal Street to watch Runcorn FC in the winter of 1964.

I didn’t know then that standing on the Popular Side would change my life forever. I would end up writing a book about my home town club - Runcorn FC, called “Gone But Not Forgotten.”

So, after two years and lots of hard work researching and writing the book against the odds, I have had no funding at all to do this project.
I’m asking all football fans and ex-players, or anybody who can help me fulfil this life long dream, to sponsor this book.

The reason I am writing the book is so that our club’s wonderful history, will be remembered for generations to come.

I have interviewed ex-players, managers and life-long fans, including relatives of the famous 1939 team. I have collected together dozens of photographs, some even go back to the very beginning of Runcorn FC in 1918.

I am hoping that local companies will see that that this project is worth while, and sponsor the printing costs to make this dream become a reality.

If you would like to be one my top twenty sponsors - because that’s all it would take - to make this book something we could all be proud of, please do not hesitate to contact me!
A donation from every sale of the book will be given to aid ‘The New Ground Fund’ for Runcorn

Mon Dieu! Classroom pranks turned Fat Malc into a thug

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on April 8, 2008 8:34 AM

Teachers are being worn out by classes who hum in unison or start orchestrated coughing and other schoolboy pranks, says the union NASUWT.

Humming? Coughing? They should be so lucky. We drove our French teacher mad. Of course we did not mean to, not so he’d spend months off work and return from some psychiatrist’s couch a thug with the manner of a kindly uncle, but we did.

All teachers are supposed to have ways of dealing with mischievous classes. I remember a physics teacher who could lift me off the ground by the ear lobes. Mine, not his.
Others just had authority. You played your joke and then did as you were told.
Whenever Fat Malc, the French teacher, turned to write on the board we’d swap places, so when he turned back, no one was where they were supposed to be.
Ha ha.

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Grumpy Boy Scouts and Blackberries

Posted by Kingsley Road Kid on April 6, 2008 7:33 PM


When we were teenagers, in the early seventies, we played football on Heath Park in Runcorn, until you couldn’t see the ball.
Once, the football went into the pond, the water was dirty, and we knew there was broken glass at the bottom, it was going dark, no one would volunteer to go in with the frogs.

Luckily it was in the middle of the Scouts “Bob a Job” week and a little red headed Boy Scout happened to be passing the Heath Park, so we grabbed him, gave him a stick and held him over the pond to get the ball.
After the boy got the ball out, he ran off throwing lumps of soil at us and using quite shocking language for a Boy Scout, perhaps they had a badge for swearing in those days. We shouted after him “See you again next year” “Not blooming likely he shouted”. He was none too pleased with the task, even though we did give him a bob for the trouble.

Later in the year, as the autumn weather came and leaves littered the pathways, we climbed trees for conkers to string.
We also used our old jams jars to go blackberry picking, the ones we had collected tadpoles in, but had to throw them back as Dad would go mad if we took anymore home. We washed the old jam jars in the dirty pond water, then we went blackberry picking at Weston, after playing in the caves on Runcorn Hill. The blackberries were always at their best in mid to late September.

We took them home and Mum made homemade blackberry pie and a rice pudding to go with it. I can still taste that pie now, as far as the Boy Scout goes, I wonder what happened to him, I bet he kept well away from the Heath Park on “Bob a Job week”!