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February 2008 Archives

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Past, Present and Future

Posted by Weaverham Community Website on February 29, 2008 10:52 PM

Cheshire Memories

Imagine Weaverham if you can in the mid 50’s. A sleepy Cheshire village with add-on old and new housing estates belonging to that big chemical factory spouting smoke all day called ICI. For a young 12 year old straight from the back streets of Liverpool this was paradise. Plenty of fresh air (when the ICI smoke was blowing in the right direction) green fields and laid back country folk!

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On the crest of a wave

Posted by The Drama Queens on February 29, 2008 9:29 AM

Sam and I had a fantastic session together today. We worked flat out from 9am until 1.30pm. We raced through episode 5, we discussed episode 6; we even had enough drive and inspiration to outline series two! We also began to imagine another comedy drama series, on a completely different theme. The next Sam and Anna collaboration would be about couples; forty-somethings with marriages, children, second marriages, affairs, broken promises, failed dreams, sadnesses and triumphs. The new series would include characters like Charlotte and Ray; one minute they’re on top of the world, happily married, a golden couple, in love with each other, sustained by shared values, the importance of good friends, good wine and their thriving careers helping others. The next minute, Ray is struck down with depression.

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Neston Voice

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on February 28, 2008 12:46 PM

Started in January 2008 to encourage Neston residents to make use of established facilities and support local authorities and other agencies to tackle anti-social behaviour, vandalism, littering and other behaviours that detract from the quality of life in the area.
Contact: John Cartlidge, Willow Brook, Flint Drive, Neston CH65 9XU
Tel: 0151 336 6610
Email: nestonvoice@googlemail.com

The Oldest Sport in Runcorn?

Posted by Kingsley Road Kid on February 27, 2008 6:57 PM

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1903 Highfield and Camden Works Competition.


I am trying to find out which sport is the Oldest in Runcorn.

As far as I know, The Runcorn Rugby team seems to be the oldest sport on record (Established in 1876).

I have found that the earliest Football Club in Runcorn may have been established in 1903 - Unless anyone can tell me otherwise.

If anyone knows of any earlier sporting clubs in Runcorn than that of the Rugby Team, please - let me know.

Read me, Kate

Posted by The Drama Queens on February 26, 2008 11:33 AM

Sam has had a reply from the BBC. I did what any fledgling scriptwriter would do and clicked on the link. Kate Rowlands, creative director new writing, had received our script entitled 'Cleaning Up' and had replied.
I know there's no way she would have had time to read it so was this just a polite 'no' do you think? My finger hovered. Actually I'm not sure I wouldn't rather leave it a few months before reading it. I'm not ready for rejection yet; I'd quite like to be a 'possible sriptwriter' rather than a 'failed scriptwriter'.
But then I caught sight of Sam's message at the top of the email: 'We haven't fallen at the first hurdle' and believed her....

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Education system is failing even examination cheats

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on February 26, 2008 9:23 AM

MORE than 4,000 students were caught cheating at A-level and GCSE exams last year. Proof indeed of the dumbing down of education, that so many should try and get caught.

The percentage success rate in my day was far higher, I’m sure. It is bad enough standards seemingly in all subjects should be dropping – the latest example is a teacher who gave his class of 10-years-olds a science GCSE paper to do and a third of them passed, even though they had not yet studied any science - but that the system, despite all its billions, is not producing pupils who can cheat and get away with it is condemnation of the system indeed.

Where is the UK in these Euro league tables they keep trotting out at such times? Bottom I shouldn’t wonder. I bet there are sharper cheats in France. Oh, the shame!

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Weaverham Community Website

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on February 25, 2008 9:40 AM

WeaverhamYarns is a website dedicated to encouraging local people to share local knowledge and stories.
Contact: Richard Condor, PO Box 6354, Derby, Western Australia
Tel: +61 (0)41 337 7845 (mobile)
Email: freefall@wapda.com
Website: http://members7.boardhost.com/WeaverhamYarns

BBC reponds

Posted by The Drama Queens on February 21, 2008 10:47 AM

I’ve been reading the BBC website’s Writers’ Room again, concentrating specifically on the ‘tips for writers’ from people such as Paul Cornell and Sarah Phelps. If anyone out there is ever thinking of doing what Sam and I have done i.e. write a script for TV, then you must read their tips.
Mind you, I read them and now I feel totally inadequate.
Sarah Phelps is a core writer for Eastenders. Paul Cornell has written for Doctor Who, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors and Robin Hood in between writing a very informative blog. He started a degree in astrophysics but couldn’t manage the maths and so turned to writing instead. He writes 5,000 words a day – A DAY – and doesn’t believe in writers block.
I’m lucky if I manage 1,000 words a day.
Not only that – he writes 5,000 words in the MORNING and then goes to the cinema in the afternoon! The man’s a powerhouse.

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Water-conscious volunteers wanted

Posted by on February 21, 2008 9:31 AM

Becoming water-efficient is a gradual process – people need to try it out then tell their friends and family and spread the word.
We’re therefore looking for three households to volunteer to test out our basic water saving kit!

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Ballet and opera will just put teenagers off culture

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on February 20, 2008 12:05 PM

Schoolchildren will be taken to the opera and theatre under government plans to offer all teenagers at least five hours of culture a week.

This sounds like the first ever case of dumbing up to me.
Culture, teenagers. Culture, teenagers. Culture, teenagers.
Nope. No matter how often you repeat the words, it don’t sound right.

Teenagers are overwhelmed with culture as it is. It comes at them in great electronic waves 24 hours a day.

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The One that got Away?

Posted by Kingsley Road Kid on February 17, 2008 1:31 PM

The One That Got away?

Many years ago my late father Thomas Darlington told me an interesting tale about the great George Best.
I’m hoping my memory is right on this one. Maybe somebody out there can enlighten me if I get any facts wrong after forty years?!

It was in the 1960’s and Manchester United were playing at Old Trafford, George Best had never been booked at the time - which is a surprising fact if I’m right.
The referee was our very own Roy Darlington - no relation to my family but a good friend of my late father’s. I think Roy may have worked on the tarmac, laying flags with my father in Runcorn? Roy booked George Best during the game for being a bit ‘lippy’ and kicking the ball away. After the game the referee gave in his report of the match and the booking of George was strangely overturned by the FA…
Not surprisingly Roy Darlington ‘hit the roof’ and was extremely annoyed about famous players coming before the rules of the game. Roy then decided to inform the FA, that he was quitting. Roy quit even after he had reached the high standard of refereeing, good enough for Division One - a big achievement at the time for someone local.
Roy never refereed a league match again and the player got away with it.

I could be wrong. Perhaps the booked Manchester Untied player was Bobby Charlton or someone else?!

Come on you Reds, put me right on this one if you can!

Does anybody remember who Manchester United were playing and when it was?

Revenge Is So Sweet

Posted by Kingsley Road Kid on February 14, 2008 7:31 PM

In the old days the Bin men had a very hard time of it, with the metal dustbins full of ashes from the coal fires. One or two of them hated the job so much they took it out on the local people on the round.

I remember a sweet old lady who lived by us and was very particular about keeping her house spick and span, her doorstep gleamed like a shiny new bar of soap.


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This espionage business is a real bugbear with me!

Posted by Trinity Mirror Cheshire on February 12, 2008 11:49 AM

SSSSHHH! Don’t tell anyone, but I am sure I’m being bugged and I wouldn’t like the security services to know I know that they know what I know.

There is a clicking noise on the telephone and an unmarked white van parked down the road where no doubt my conversations are being recorded. I am aware of a faint whirring in my front room, which will be a miniature TV camera and microphone so carefully hidden I can’t find it.

Damn clever, these people.

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Oh, Yes it is!!!

Posted by Bridgewater Players on February 8, 2008 12:41 PM

The Bridgewater Players are presenting a great night out for ALL the family. "Cinderella" All the old favourites: Buttons, the Ugly Sisters, Dandini, Prince Charming and, of course, Cinders herself will be telling bad jokes and getting plastered with custard pies in Thelwall Parish Hall, Bell Lane, Thelwall, fron 21st to 23rd February 2008 starting at 7.45. Tickets are available by calling Avis on 01925 730390 priced £3.50 for adults and £2.50 for children. Check out http://www.bridgewaterplayers.co.uk for more details.

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Flaming January

Posted by Trevor Smith on February 7, 2008 10:28 AM

Spending the summer in Perth quickly dispels any doubts about global climate change: The recent heat wave has been breaking records and this year looks to be heading in the same direction. After surviving the hottest Christmas on record, we have just struggled through the hottest January since records began in the 1950s. With an average daily maximum of 32.8 degrees, 2.5 degrees above the monthly average, January is now a month to be endured rather than enjoyed
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Vale Royal Lions Murder Mystery Evening

Posted by Vale Royal Lions on February 6, 2008 7:16 PM

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