There really will be very little to stop Chelsea this season. Blackburn Rovers out played them and harried them for the first half, but lost...

At the risk of sounding like I repeat myself, my verdict on Center Parcs is pretty much the same as it was this time last year after our ha...

Let's go round again. In June I wrote an open and welcoming letter to Saurin Shah , one of the supposed bidders for Blackburn Rovers. In...

Doing what I do, the story of Enron and its collapse like a house of cards into a sea of oil was the most incredible story of our times. It ...

There's nothing to celebrate about the government's deficit reduction plan. The billing that this was the moment that the public sec...

AA Gill in the Sunday Times (behind the paywall) has re-ignited the Manchester Food Is Crap debate again. He reviewed Rosso, Rio Ferdinand a...

Rachel's home town features in the Observer today . Nelson's demise is charted with some trepidation as the government prepares cuts...

I've dabbled with Facebook and thought it wasn't for me. Being asked to "poke" young people isn't my thing really. Any...

I've registered with Facebook again. I got round to thinking I couldn't ignore it any longer. Anyway, it was instantly proven to be ...

Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens to debate the future of faith . Finnish news reader gets sacked for this . Harsh. There's a very...

I was rather taken with the stunt from Greater Manchester Police to highlight EVERY incident that is reported over a 24 hour period. Apart ...

I'm involved in organising a 25th anniversary dinner for Marple Athletic Junior Football Club. The basic idea is it's a reunion di...

I was lucky enough to get an invite to the North West Football Awards on Monday night. It was a long evening for a school night, but came to...

To be completely honest, I wasn't totally sold on getting a puppy. We have a lot to do as it is and she got under my feet to begin with....

There's a cracking blog post from a pal, over here . Just as it says in the header. And some belting photos...

There's a feature on the Downtown Manchester in Business newsletter called Who Are Yer. Anyway, it's my turn this week. Nothing reve...

I think I have discovered the company with the best customer service in the world, Bowers & Wilkins . My speakers were making a humming ...

Two scientists who discovered graphene at The University of Manchester have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. There's some news ...

There is chatter at the Rovers that a new bidder is soon to emerge. This time it's the Mahindra Brothers. I'll polish off that open ...

I buy the Stockport Express most weeks. I believe in local media. I want to support it too. Now, last week, in Marple there was a festival...