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1. Pensioners' plight has made me 'Angry of Macclesfield'
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008THIS week I'm ‘Angry of Macclesfield’. Angry that elderly people must face the oncoming winter unable to pay their spiralling bills. Age Concern are worried about pensioners forced to make the choice between heating or eating as energy, water and food bills rocket.
2. Getting a buzz from nature
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008DID you know that police and an ambulance crew attended a nudist club in Bosley when a man was stung on a very sensitive part of his anatomy by a wasp?
3. Whatever happened to matron?
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008DO YOU ever feel as if you’re living in a parallel universe? I don’t know when hospitals first came to be but I’m sure the first rule of hygiene was wash your hands. Even in an age when they were amputating limbs with rip-saws, they knew the risk posed by dirty digits.
4. Arrogance is the new political party
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008THERE was a time when any public comment deemed to be ‘unfair’ by local politicians would result in a forceful repost.
5. Barack is just the ticket for student
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008FOR most young Britons a roller coaster ride in America means a trip to a theme park.
6. Eco housing scheme could preserve bog
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008PLANS to build eco homes on land at Lindow Moss will put an end to peat extraction on the site, say developers.
7. Time called by two publicans
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008TWO pub landlords have called last orders and quit within the last two weeks.
8. Energy student’s shock findings put borough at the top of the gas guzzlers
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008A WILMSLOW woman has discovered that domestically the borough consumes the most gas and the second most electricity per household in the WHOLE of the North West.
9. Have-a-go teens praised
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008FOUR courageous teenagers who instinctively gave chase when a thief knocked a pensioner to the ground while stealing her handbag have been commended for their bravery.
10. High school students make it into perfect ten
Wilmslow Express, Wednesday 8 October 2008THESPIANS are often told to break a leg before they tread the boards but one GCSE student, who has come in the top ten drama students in the WHOLE country, took it a bit too literally.