With sassy, infectious Cuban dance beats and heart-wrenching ballads, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine were the soundtrack to the 1980s. While their pop songs were in everything from ‘Three Men’ and ‘A Baby (Bad Boy)’ to ‘Top Gun (Hot Summer Nights)’ and ‘Stakeout (Rhythm Is Gonna Get You)’, women […]
Manchester
The creators of Peaky Blinders have sent a stern warning to a dim sum restaurant telling it to get a ‘brand’ new look. The restaurant had chosen photos of characters from the hit TV drama as its recipe for success. The walls of the Manchester city centre bar are festooned […]
A woman claiming to be the sister of an artist who changed the face of modern film says she fears he may be dead after it was revealed his historic home had become a ‘Marie Celeste’ mansion. It has been abandoned for almost a decade. Martine Barnard-Delaroche saw an […]
I start by apologising in advance as, no doubt, I will rant, possibly upset and offend people with this one. So make sure you have your safe space ready and get wrapped in cotton wool or bubble wrap. In this modern-day society people are being attacked … bullying has spread […]
In our town, as I grew up, I was never aware of anyone sleeping rough. Then, still living in the same town in the 60s and 70s we, the mums and dads, and the youth, and the authorities and small businesses on our main street all knew David. In […]
In our town we have a house which was built four hundred years ago. It stands out like a battered thumb midst the Victorian school buildings, the Seventies ‘boxes’ and the dark Edwardian terraces. I say standing like a ‘battered thumb’ reluctantly because such a treasure should be standing with […]
Allow me to create a picture for you – a picture of the streets of Manchester seen through the eyes of my childhood. My childhood was World War II. Most nights were spent underground with the beetles in our Anderson Shelter in my Dad’s leafy garden in Moston. We […]
I’m looking back at many aspects of life in a small town, a suburb – my village; a typical Northern town where I happen to have been born and spent my entire life. Moston. I am reminded of a documentary on our TV screens a few years ago. It […]
The son of the Lockerbie bomber has warned Britain it will be hit by more terrorism from Libya. Khaled al-Megrahi said that Libyan fanatics are poised to blast more British cities after the Manchester horror. Libya was plunged into civil war in the wake of Col Gaddafi’s killing in 2011 and is now […]
Last night’s terror attack was an ‘evil act’ against children and their families, the mayor of Manchester has said. ‘It is hard to believe what has happened here, and to put into words the shock, anger, and hurt that we feel today,’ Mr Andy Burnham, said. ‘This was an evil act. […]