Manchester Blog

Clayton Hall’s Christmas event starts at one pm today. Father Christmas will be stationed in the hall and giving out presents. And if anything like last time arriving resplendent with his horse and cart and attendant elves. I’ve been assured that there will be crafts aplenty and of course the ever present and welcome cafe [...]

Well after all the money spent by the "Yes" and "No" camp we discover that really Manchester people don’t want to pay to go into Manchester. Is that a surprise, or not? And now what is the next step. Given that the council (and us) really do need to have money spent on the transport [...]

The Royal Mail has promised to go around all the post boxes in the voting areas and get all votes posted by the last post today and then deliver them for counting at 10pm tonight. So if you want to vote you can! There seems to a lot of heat about the vote in the [...]

The Mail on Sunday has a very interesting article that if implemented in Britain would make the London and Manchester congestion charges obsolete. The article is all about how Audi has created a new in-car technology that "speaks" to upcoming traffic lights and checks and displays the speed to get you through on green. The [...]