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A home on the market
A house worth £11,250,000? That money could buy 80 decent family homes. With architecture owing its inspiration (it seems to me) to a Scooby Doo cartoon episode; and landscaping designed for the Telly Tubbies, it’s pretty hideous to be honest. However, the house in Bowdon was shortlisted for…
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A & E – anger and exasperation
Save Trafford General A&E Meeting In a packed Community Centre in Flixton last night, the senior officials leading the reorgansitation of health services on our patch came to address the worries of local people. People came to find out what was planned, why it was happening, and how…
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Cycle Safe in Stretford – A potential solution to the Barton Road / Chester Road death-trap
The Times has been running their Cycle Safe campaign to identify hazardous road layouts for cyclists. Unsurprisingly, the Barton Road / Chester Road Gyratory has received a lot of criticism. The cyclist heading from Barton Road towards Altrincham finds themself merging into the fast third lane of the…
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Dave Acton’s Advertiser Column 9th May 2012
Dave’s Advertiser Column I always look forward to election day whatever the outcome. I never forget how hard we the people had to fight for every man and woman to have the vote. Incredibly, it’s still less than 100 years since the battle was finally won for every…
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Election Week – Trafford is one to watch
According to the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), Trafford will simply be a Conservative hold and the borough does not make it into the organisation’s top 50 councils to watch. Perhaps Trafford’s results in the past 8 years have been so consistently uneventful that they’ve stopped looking. From…
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A Welcome Interjection from Chief Constable
After last week’s astonishing attacks on PCSOs from the Conservative Councillors of Bowdon and Hale Barns, it was good to see Chief Constable Fahy’s resolute support for PCSOs on this week’s Online Chat. I don’t want to pick on Councillors Hyman and Sharp but their views were striking…


