I really do think this should be called “Bullshit style job titles.”
Trafford council excel themselves yet again – Benefits Realisation Manager. The job description is, well, bollocks to say the least. Who dreams up these positions at the Council Tax payers expense? They also want canning.
I can’t recall me ever agreeing with this chap but just this once, I do. Eric Pickles attacks council ‘non-jobs’
On Sunday BT leaked out details of price increases to call charges and line rental costs that take effect from October this year. Line rental will rise by 50p per month and call charges will rise by 10%.
Sign up on a 12 month contract and pay upfront and you will avoid the increase. Do BT think people are stupid? Is this how they intend to pay for the recent inflation busting pay rise of 9.6% to it’s staff?
This doesn’t personally effect me as I’m a Post Office customer for my land line, which is basically used just to provide a dsl connection via C&W LLU.
When will there be a dsl only line rental option made available, with a reduction in the rental charges to reflect this?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address or maybe email your internet incompetent MP demanding change in BT’s monopoly.
I was saddened yesterday to hear of the passing of Ken Barnes at the age of 81.
Ken spent 11 years as a player at City, 1950 -1961. He worked tirelessly for over 40 years at the club in various rolls.
I spoke to my dad today on the phone and asked him what he was like as a player. “He was one of the best players that I saw who never played for England.”
My condolences to his family.
Live Aid was 25 years ago today and I’m wondering where the hell all those years have gone! I remember this event like it was yesterday. That my sound a clichéd thing to say but I honestly do remember it that well.
I watched the first hour or at home at my parents and then legged it up to my then girlfriend’s house (married, divorced, one child many years latter)and watched half an hour then a 2 min run to the pub.
The pub was the old Yates’ wine lodge in the now demolished and part rebuilt Urmston precinct. In those days pub rarely had a TV so this was just a colour TV dumped on a table in the pub with everyone sat round it. This was also the days of the old opening hours, 12 – 3 and then 5:30 – 11pm so we weren’t there long and then it was back to her house.
At this point the memory fades due to the beer. 
But I do remember watching it right to the end as the US part of it was 5 hours behind us and went on well into the early hours here.
I have a 4 hour VHS here that is roughly split 50/40 between Wembley and JFK stadium in Pennsylvania which I really must transfer to DVD.
I must mention for younger readers what the technology was like back then;
No mobile phones available to the public.
Computers at home were mostly CBM64, some sort of Sinclair or a BBC electron. The Amiga 1000 was still weeks away.
The web was still 7 years away. So there was no Twitter/facebook, we used to go out and talk to people!
There were only 4 TV channels. Beeb 1 & 2, ITV and Channel 4.
Today though, 25 years after, the message remains the same. People do not need to die from famine, we can all make a difference and should do our utmost, in our own individual little way, to achieve this aim.
I’ll leave you with a video that on the day was introduced by Bowie at Wembley. It consists of video footage of the famine taken in 1984/85 and is set to the Cars “whose going to drive you home”. This is the more recent version with added content but the first few mins are the same. I was never the same after seeing this back then.
(The little girl survived and appeared on stage at Live 8 in 2005)
Live Aid Youtube channel. Plenty of vids from the day.
