Showing posts with label Cheshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheshire. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The disturbing folklore behind Alan Garner's stories

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Grim Jim and his disembodied hands are new to me, but this is a good video. Though he talks mostly about Garner and his first two books, The...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Zoo advertises tickets for 'child predator tour'

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Chester. I am reminded of the glory days of Lord Bonkers' safari park at...
Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Geoff Marshall asks: What are Britain's least served stations?

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Geoff Marshall says in his YouTube blurb: So we quite often talk about Least Used Stations ... but what about the Least SERVED - the station...
Monday, July 06, 2026

Parents shocked after children’s paper hedgehogs found to contain pages from explicit novel

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The Guardian wins our Headline of the Day Award for this worrying one from the Wirral.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1537

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David Howarth reminds us that both Tony Blair and Keir Starmer said pluralist things in opposition, only to go back on them in power: ...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

The Joy of Six 1431

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"Nine of the groups are being run from Sri Lanka, three have admins in Nigeria, and the admins of six other groups appear to be located...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

The Joy of Six 1420

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"'They are treated with the most appalling hostility at the border with officials laughing at them, and shouting,' says Rivka S...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1409

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Dominic Bryan , who has researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades, sets out what England needs to understand: "W...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Book Review... All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. All the Wide Border:...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Hilaire Belloc's persecution of Charles Masterman

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I knew Charles Masterman had won the enmity of Horatio Bottomley, the publisher of John Bull magazine, over the Home Office inquiry into all...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

GUEST POST The state of our canals - and canalside pubs - today

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Fresh from a canal holiday made difficult by unannounced closures, Peter Chambers looks at the many challenges facing the Canal & River...
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Sunday, March 02, 2025

GUEST POST Defections of local councillors have doubled in 2025

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Augustus Carp sees early signs that the shifting of tectonic plates in national and international politics may be reflected in local govern...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Mike Amesbury MP has his prison sentence suspended

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On Monday Mike Amesbury , the Labour MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was imprisoned for 10 weeks after assaulting a man in the street. Today his ...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Major breach in the Bridgewater Canal at Dunham Massey

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The Bridgewater Canal has suffered a major embankment collapse at Dunham Massey in Cheshire. You can see the damage caused in the video abov...
Monday, June 03, 2024

The Stockport Branch Canal waits impatiently to be restored

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The Stockport Branch Canal was not officially abandoned until 1962. It ran from the Ashton Canal at Clayton in Manchester for five miles to ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

All 19 Ealing Comedies ranked by the Guardian

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Andrew Pulver has ranked all 19 Ealing Comedies for the Guardian. In the process, he notices some films that even I have not seen. But I...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Mirror publishes list of 14 seats where Labour supporters can help defeat the Tories by voting Lib Dem

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From today's Mirror : The Compass campaign group has published details of 14 constituencies where the Lib Dems are best placed to topple...