The ‘lost boy’, a briefcase of secrets – and Pauline’s body parts forgotten about by police and a university The legacies of Ian Brady and his monstrous lover Myra Hindley horrify the world. And still today the families of victims are haunted by the secrets the evil pair of child killers have left behind. At… Continue reading The harrowing legacies of evil child killers Brady and Hindley
Category: Literary Outpost
It began on a wing and a prayer. Now Slovakia’s flying car has taken off, just like Society editor predicted…
Two years ago I was asked to write something about Slovakia’s dream machine .. a prototype flying car. I loved it, but worried I was being a bit of an Icarus about it all. I waxed lyrical anyway! And now it has just completed a 35-minute 80K flight between airports in Nitra and Bratislava. The… Continue reading It began on a wing and a prayer. Now Slovakia’s flying car has taken off, just like Society editor predicted…
The night I met Scott in the dream-time of his ‘wilderness years’
Fifty three years ago Scott released Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series. It got to No 7 in the UK. Despite its good chart rating, Scott thought it was a ‘wilderness years’ album and ultimately it was deleted for decades. That’s sad because it contained some powerful big band-driven performances of songs… Continue reading The night I met Scott in the dream-time of his ‘wilderness years’
FIGHT FOR HURRICANE HERO JOE AT ALLIGATOR TOWN’S OLD ‘FIVE AND DIME’
People in an old Texas railway town claim their local ‘dollar’ store manager – a hurricane hero – has lost his job because of a candy bar competition. Affable Joe Dore, a diminutive man in his early 60s, who spends his free time rescuing animals from the side of the old state Highway 24, lives… Continue reading FIGHT FOR HURRICANE HERO JOE AT ALLIGATOR TOWN’S OLD ‘FIVE AND DIME’
A visual tribute to Manchester’s victims of the Arena bomber
Concert of horror: 22 murdered and 22 harrowing sketches by artist Elton Twenty-two men, women and children died in the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena on May 2017. Bomber Salman Abedi’s device ripped through the lives of hundreds more. The inquiry into the terror attack says that all these people –… Continue reading A visual tribute to Manchester’s victims of the Arena bomber
On the way to bed and I hear a noise … 22 men women and children dead in city I love
Moston writer Dorrie Jane Bridge wrote this piece for us the day after the bombing It is the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena terror attack. Twenty-two people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. Among the tributes, a minute’s applause will be held at… Continue reading On the way to bed and I hear a noise … 22 men women and children dead in city I love
What a difference 40 miles makes to the protectors of heritage – but still our Northern history crumbles
A Mancunian rant! As Hough Hall crumbles into oblivion, British Heritage – one of the organisation that could have helped us Mostonians save it – are ‘weeping’ over another vanished listed building 40 miles up the road. We probably all know Hurst Green, Longridge, in Preston, that scruffy little industrial town up the A6 (I… Continue reading What a difference 40 miles makes to the protectors of heritage – but still our Northern history crumbles
How Biro artist Elton is drawn to success
Manchester artist Elton, has two new books full of fabulous drawings. Enjoy this interview with him as we explore part of Manchester and it’s history in words and pictures. Elton Darlo and me walked the same moribund Victorian streets of 1970s and 1980s rainy Manchester. I was a young writer making my way in the… Continue reading How Biro artist Elton is drawn to success
How Poprad charmed Prince Philip … a brief memory of the Royal who would have been 100 years old
Prince Philip died aged 99, nine weeks before his centenary. To mark his birthday the Queen was presented with a new rose named after the Duke of Edinburgh. The pink rose was bred by the Royal Horticultural Society and planted in the gardens at Windsor Castle last week. This week also marked the Queen’s official… Continue reading How Poprad charmed Prince Philip … a brief memory of the Royal who would have been 100 years old
To dance with a stranger or to die in the plague … should we hasten slowly?
By Moston writer, Dorrie Jane Bridge Here I endeavour to represent Josephine Bloggs who is trapped on a planet of disease. I want to get out of my prison, and to have people come in and transform it to a home. I want to wander around the shops, handle the goods, eat in the carvery, sharing… Continue reading To dance with a stranger or to die in the plague … should we hasten slowly?