New Website up and running soon

The website is taking me longer than anticipated, migrating articles is hard work and dont even get me started on the gallery, a nightmare. Also got to change domain so editing and changing links in articles is tedious.

Hopefully you only have to wait a bit longer.

I am closed until after New Year

I will not be doing any reporting until after new year, got a lot of work to do with my websites, updating existing with new looks and creating a new one.

Not sure yet but may be moving all my personal website content to this domain.

Stay safe, live long and prosper this Halloween and Bonfire Night

Stay safe, live long and prosper this Halloween and Bonfire Night.

Treacle Partnership is a multi agency initiative aimed at preventing, tackling and protecting against anti social behaviour, criminal damage and harm reduction during the Halloween and Bonfire period across Greater Manchester.

Treacle is an initiative designed to tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce injuries caused by fireworks. It also provides assurances to the public that such actions will not be tolerated.

visit http://safe4autumn.com/ for more information.

Halloween safety tips http://safe4autumn.com/halloween-safety.aspx
Bonfire safety tips http://safe4autumn.com/bonfire-safety.aspx
Firework safety tips http://safe4autumn.com/fireworks-safety.aspx

NRAO Telescope array needs New Name

Do we have any astronomers, the most famous radio telescope in the world needs a new name. visit to give it a new name.

Entries will be accepted until 23:59 EST on December 1, 2011

11 Eleven Project

On the 11th November 2011, the date reads 11/11/11. This alignment of ones takes place every hundred years, and this time humanity will recognise the occasion like never before.
For 24 hours on 11/11/11, anyONE who has access to a film/video/digital camera, microphone, mobile phone or email, will be invited to partake in the biggest creative project of our human history. People from 196 different countries, brought together by ove 200 languages, will be asked to capture a day in the life of their world.

visit 11 eleven Project for more information.

Proceeds go to charities

Jubilee Time Capsule - Global event

Register and send your message to the future, you could write a life changing experience, photo, video, in fact anything that you think might interest someone in the future. And you might even win a prize.


The Jubilee Time Capsule is a unique social archive of the 60 year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. We want to gather contributions from people all over the world about their lives and experiences.


Visit http://www.jubileetimecapsule.org to get registered and start contributing to the capsule.

Entries finish in March 2012 so get writing.

Maharajah the Elephant still shines today

On a recent visit to Manchester Museum I was pleasantly surprised, I noticed an exhibit that brought memories flooding back of Belle Vue. In fact the exhibit in question deserves to have a film made about his short life, whether the stories were true or not does not matter, he is without doubt part of local folklore and was a celebrity at Belle Vue.

Belle Vue Elephant Maharajah's Skeleton at Manchester Museum


for more on this story visit Maharajah the Belle Vue Elephant still shines today

East Manchester Festival

The East Manchester Festival is held as part of Refugee Week, the festival has been a local success, this is a video from the 2009 event held at the grange in Beswick, Manchester.


For more on this story visit www.pauledwards.org.uk

Guerrilla Busking from Single Cell Collective

For Futuresonic 2009, Single Cell Collective present an eclectic series of impromptu musical performances in secret locations around Manchester City Centre. Over 20 Manchester musicians hit the city centre streets, playing an eclectic series of impromptu gigs in a variety of secret, unauthorised locations, from the very public to the very hidden.



for more on this story visit Guerrilla Busking 2009 from Single Cell Collective