Manchester Blog

Monopoly makers take poll to decide what to label its board game squares. We think Manchester, vibrant city that it is was robbed! What do you think?

Interesting developments in the Portico Library.

It’s another day, so I sauntered out to see about filling what my mum calls my bottomless pit of a stomach. I could hear the low call of the Chinese banquet whispering its sweet nothings of rice, spring rolls, green tea and Peking duck to me. I was weak! I had to have another [...]

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
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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.
I particularly [...]

The wisdom of Paul Calf explaining his worst nightmare scenario: “sitting next to Terry Christian on a long haul flight on one side ……… and another Terry Christian on the other.”
There was a time when I thought Terry Christian was a professional Manc with an aggravating voice. This was in part owing to that [...]

Manchester Blog Awards 2007 has just been announced byManchizzle.
Bloggers can nominate their own blogs! This must give us a chance.
Entries (as a URL) to be sent in by the 7th Sept, in anticipation of the awards ceremony: Moho Live, Oldham Street, 7pm Wednesday October 10, free and there are cash prizes.
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Creative portal How Do in association with event planners Out There are launching an awards ceremony to celebrate all things football in the region.
The awards dinner will be held on Monday 12th November at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, and will raise money for The New Children’s Hospital Appeal, a charity for which Phil [...]

I was listening to xfm this morning and the presenter was reading out the latest sightings of Sabi Rock.
First Quay Street and then Trinity Way in Salford. I do not know if this is a regular occurrence, but if you can get yourself talked about on radio by simply walking round with a [...]