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Hot-air balloons over Manchester city centre (video)

Admin | Friday 8 June 2007

Javascript is required for videos. You seem to have it disabled. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, just as the sun was going down, several hot-air balloons took off from next to Sportscity (the 2002 Commonwealth Games stadium) and drifted across the sky towards the west of the city. It felt so peaceful, I wanted … Hot-air balloons over Manchester city centre (video)

Sackville Park village fete (video)

Admin | Wednesday 30 May 2007

Sunday afternoon was the final day of the Queer Up North arts festival and a village fete was held in Sackville Park. There was a cake judging competition, stalls and a great punch and judy show.

Manchester’s Odeon cinema subjected to a damaging ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent preservation

Admin | Saturday 19 May 2007

Manchester’s former Odeon cinema, on Oxford Street, has been subjected to a ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent it being preserved, according to the man who tried to save it.

Reports problems to your local council with Neighbourhood Fix It

Admin | Saturday 19 May 2007

The Neighbourhood Fix It website is an effective way to highlight and report problems in your local neighbourhood.

Photographer loses image library in fire — how safe is your audio and visual data?

Admin | Wednesday 16 May 2007

As a photographer myself, I broke out into a cold sweat reading how this poor man lost most of his image library in the Lever Street fire. Equipment can be replaced but unique transparencies, negatives and digital images can’t be.

Help needed after the fire in Lever Street, Manchester on 30 April

Admin | Sunday 13 May 2007

On 30 April, just four days after I wrote about the Basement Social Centre in Manchester city centre and said what a unique and absolutely spiffing place it was, a huge fire ripped through a building to the rear of it.

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