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Manchester suffered another earthquake, just 2 weeks after a similar sized incident two weeks earlier. The earthquake, measuring 2.4 on the Ricther Scale, shook beds and awoke several people according to early reports. More to follow…. Earthquake Manchester Richter Scale Rob Baker addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fmanchester-blog.com%2Fearthquake-hits-manchester-again%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Manchester+Shaken+By+Second+Earthquake+%26%238211%3B+Residents+Barely+Stir’; addthis_pub = ”; Tweet This Post  Digg [...]

Manchester City beats Manchester United – and we know who’s the modern day Svengali who did it.

This is the first restaurant review for this blog and where better to start than with a Manchester city centre institution, the Yang Sing? And with all highly rated restaurants you can see they are setting themselves up for a fall. Well, it did not happen here. Besides great service, ambiance, the food was superb. [...]

Manchester seems to be getting better and better at hosting sports events. Why don’t we help London by hosting the 2012 Olympics for them? Anyway, the latest sporting event starts on Saturday, 18th August at Bellevue. It’s the European Hockey championships 2007. The best 8 teams in Europe will be there to battle it out. And [...]

I’m sure many people in Manchester were shocked by Mr Manchester’s death by a heart attack. That’s been reported on all over the place. Interestingly, while he appeared to have quite a gruff persona he went out of his way to help a lone American see Manchester as it should be seen, and to explain [...]

If you checkout Google Zeitgeist you’ll notice that in the UK Manchester Airport parking comes in at the number 10 most searched phrase in June. That’s either good, because so many people are using Manchester airport and are looking for a convenient parking place. Or bad because the same bunch of people are making multiple searches [...]

Chris Barry reporting in The Manchester Evening News interviews Ruth Badger last year’s The Apprentice runner up. Astutely she and her old boss are capitalising on her fame by creating a new company called “North West Money”. The company will offer similar products to those of Compass Finance, the company she left to go on The Apprentice. [...]

Yes, it’s good news for the Indiana Jones fans amongst us. And I include myself in that merry band. Apparently it’s due for release in the USA in May 2008. Harrison Ford stars, of course, although I assume that he may not do quite as many stunts himself this time. Stephen Spielberg is executive producer [...]