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Monthly Archives: September 2007

The Beech, Chorlton Green

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

When I worked in licenced retail, one of the best things about opening a new pub was distressing the fixtures and fittings before it opened. People don’t like a pub to be too new. But the Beech on Chorlton Green has no need for such gimmicks. Over recent months the Beech, perhaps Chorlton’s Continue reading →

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Not for you Love

Posted on 29 September, 2007 by Stephen Newton — 1 Comment ↓

‘Oi! That’s not for you love!’ That’s the warning the Manchester Evening News distributor issues to any woman who attempts to pick up a copy of Short List. Short List is a magazine that’s free for men. Despite being a men’s mag, it contains neither tits nor arse, but that Lewis Hamilton strapline Continue reading →

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John Leech MP: ‘no manifesto commitment to shooting’

Posted on 27 September, 2007 by Stephen Newton — 4 Comments ↓

Stephen I have received a reply from Steve Webb, who is responsible for the Manifesto. No commitment to support shooting is in the current draft. I imagine that the BASC is wrong in their interpretation of events at conference. John (by email) John Leech MP has responded to my recent exclusive, Withington MP Continue reading →

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Immigrants: you miss ’em when they’re gone

Posted on 26 September, 2007 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

‘We welcome not only immigrants themselves, but the many gifts they bring and the values they live by.’ – George W Bush George W Bush’s attempt to ‘make America more American’ by making economic migration easier is an initiative Gordon Brown would do well to resurrect for Britain. Sadly for America, Bush was Continue reading →

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Mrs Bin Laden

Posted on 25 September, 2007 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

A very strange interview with Osama Bin Laden’s daughter-in-law, a Cheshire parish councillor, on North West Tonight. She didn’t expect marrying Osama Bin Laden’s son to raise eyebrows. Some people have on sense of news. She’s getting a divorce following death threats, but plans to remarry the guy, which seems a rather silly Continue reading →

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