Sun, sea, Coca Cola – how woke matters become a ‘class act’ … slavery, UK and UK history or shameful memories? Barcelona slave trade … the world is responsible. #UKhistory #slavetrade #cocacola #Barcelona #history
The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, D.A.D.S and NAAP Fathers day … this is what people don’t know. The toughest time of the year has arrived for so many men. Fathers day. So many fathers feel the pain on this day more than any other. Floods of tears heartbreak and loss of life. Every year we brace… Continue reading The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
A happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there… we’re thinking of you
When you’ve been an absent dad for most – or sometimes all – of your life, some days hurt more than others. The most painful of course are Christmas Day, New Year’s Day even, birthdays, Easter Day, school open days, family days. Those are the days we just learn to turn the lights off. We… Continue reading A happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there… we’re thinking of you
The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, D.A.D.S and NAAP Fathers day … this is what people don’t know. The toughest time of the year has arrived for so many men. Fathers day. So many fathers feel the pain on this day more than any other. Floods of tears heartbreak and loss of life. Every year we brace… Continue reading The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
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
BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!
Well the future for me is already a thing of the past His Royal Bobness is doing it again… embracing new technology when most people of his age are embracing a cup of Horlicks! Tonight’s the night for his online concert on Veeps. Called ‘Shadow Kingdom’ it will see Bob in an intimate ‘club-like’ setting… Continue reading BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!
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
Desperado Leigh and rockin’ Rodney talk about the new Concord and electric planes – and all sorts of serious things
Listen inside and click on sound bar at the bottom right hand corner… #electriccars #zerocarbonemmisions #concor #NewYork #China #takingtheknee