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Two dog night, no dog morning

Originally posted on MEMOIRS OF A HUSK:
Saturday. Under clear blue skies we set sail for Manchester.  (I lie. We drive.) The hotel’s grand. Victoriana at its best. Come six o-clock we head out, past the old town hall, accessorised…

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Introducing the ‘real Sherlock Holmes’

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Salford residents take a stand against the bedroom tax

Originally posted on Chloe Glover:
Angered tenants are set to lobby Salford’s major housing provider this Thursday over dissatisfaction towards measures to protect them from the bedroom tax. Little Hulton and Walkden residents who live in some of the worst…

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WINE EXPERT ANDREA RUGGERI TURNS THE NORTHERN QUARTER MANCHESTER ITALIAN ONCE AGAIN

Originally posted on Manchester Social 101:
Ancoats, the Northern Quarter’s industrial neighbor, is an area previously known in the Nineteenth Century as ‘Little Italy’, drawing many Italians from Liguria, in northwest Italy, and Frosinone and Caserta, southeast of Rome in search…

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Salford Community Leisure kicks out NHS campaigners

Originally posted on Chloe Glover:
photo by Stephen Kingston The questionable attitudes of Salford’s fit city executive.

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The Museum of Trains

Originally posted on Andre Wandbec's Europe:
We are currently at the train museum in Manchester. Ooh, that sounded like I meant, ‘Coming to you live from the Manchester Train Musuem!’ – there’s an example of words that have never…

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Numerical Order: A cruel society

Originally posted on Scribble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMbySJTKpg Throughout history there has always been a strong pecking order within our society. Where you sat on this hierarchy was based on the colour of your skin, how much money you earned, where you lived,…

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YALE STUDENTS FIND MICRO ORGANISMS WHICH CAN BREAK DOWN PLASTIC

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Jamaica Bacchanal 2013 on Absolute Travel Addict (Final)

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Jo Peel

  ‘Things Change’ is a graffiti installation and stop-motion animation piece by British street artist Jo Peel that was enacted on the wall outside of the Village Underground arts space in Shoreditch, London. Peel spent three weeks painting progressive scenes, snapping…

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