Council staff intimidated. Trackers placed on cars to find their home addresses. This is a disgrace.
Nigel Howle
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PR consultant, former news and sport reporter. Football, Rugby Union, cricket lover, campervan enthusiast. Some say I like a debate, but let's play nicely.
Coffee at the Madeley Centre. It's about 5 years since I have been there. Very friendly and a good price.
Played this afternoon while writing. Must be 12 years since I last listened. Leans heavily on Mick Ronson's skills.
Wowsers. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this following a manager departure - wokingfc.co.uk/07/25/club-s... #JermainDefoe
Club Statement: Jody Brown on Jermain Defoe exit
Director of Football Jody Brown has issued the following statement following the departure of Jermain Defoe as First Team Manager.
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What Reform UK propose is to ask British Navy boats to enter French waters uninvited. A diplomatic disaster. Are we looking to go to war with France?
Car crash interview by the unelected Yusuf from Reform on BBC 5Live. Rachel Burden is perfectly within her rights to ask questions - doing her job - and by arguing about that, Yusuf looked awful. Wouldn't just dumping people on beaches be an act of war against an ally (France)?
Following on from my comment a few days ago, I think I have sussed it, it's the M1 London, isn't it? The #100.
I see the Unite the Right twerps are on the march in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The intentions are, of course, anything but unity.
My August 'people and places' feature in Cheshire Life Magazine features Knutsford.
Every season people get tucked in by football friendlies. It's practice, it rarely indicates a good or bad season ahead.
What's the main takeaway here: Labour resurgence? Reform failing again in actual elections? Terrible Tories - don't we keep hearing Badenoch is doing well>?
Is the 100 dying. All we see is poor crowds. Wasn't the idea to attract new crowds to cricket?
You know that thing about private schools pleading poverty? Here's a nice job at the very posh Eton College...rugby coach £100 an hour. This isn't even the head of rugby, it's a part time job but still a nice earner. I bet most coaches at Prem Rugby clubs don't get that much,
On this day. 60 years ago England won the World Cup. Times have changed, the TV schedule shows Laurel and Hardy were on just 30 minutes after the final whistle. Nowadays, we'd be subjected to hours of Roy Keane and assorted other numpties.
Newcastle Utd obviously think they are bigger than they are - delusions of grandeur.
There's a thing on the Tory right wing which says we all love Badenoch. Clearly that's not true.
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 7d agoLatest leader approvals 🌹Burnham bumps up to +19, 8 higher than Keir’s high of 11. 🌳Badenoch down slightly to break even 🔶Davey drops back to -11 💚Polanski is at -24 ➡️Farage drops to another low, by far his lowest since the election at -32
We now have a real crisis - a shortage of berries for Ribena. What is @andyburnham.bsky.social going to do about this? #drought
The Space Invader pub, not far from Jodrell Bank, reveals new mural.
If European nations led by Germany, Spain, France, and England told Infantino to stick his plans, he couldn't continue could he? Do it, please!
Welcome big Courts. The question is are Sale Sharks getting a pink away shirt next season?
I've just been to see Dan Canavan (as seen on Newsnight and Sky News this week), at the Spark Group. They are doing amazing things to help the #NEETS crisis in Stoke-on-Trent and are ahead of the game on the topics in the PM's speech re vocational education. There will be more news to follow.
Burnham announces: 1. Casey will bring forward her review by a year to summer 2027. He wants it to focus on creating a National Care Service that is ‘highly integrated’ with the NHS. 2. He will look at improving pay and progression of social care workforce. 3. Cross party talks to begin today.
Farage is furious he hasn't been invited to talks on social care, conveniently forgetting he resigned from Parliament to fight with a bin.
The Toffees couldn't do it on a warm Tuesday night in Stoke 🤣
The threat to the Lovell Telescope, Jodrell Bank, brings memories of work that saw me visiting Manchester University physics dept. The professors were great to work with but I confess I hardly understood anything they were telling me.
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A Staffordshire bushcraft organisation supported by adventurer and television presenter Ben Fogle is calling on local businesses to help expand its work with veterans, emergency service personnel and ...
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