tenthofjune

Clifton Station, near Swinton, Manchester, used to be Clifton Junction Station, until Mr Beeching kindly took away the other line which made it a junction. The area around the station is still however called Clifton Junction.
It lies on the main line between Bolton and Manchester which carries trains between Scotland and Manchester, and also local […]

Liverpool Vision have recently complained to Google about their woefully out-of-date images of Liverpool on Google Earth, while new landmarks in London, such as Wembley Stadium have up-to-date images.
I’ve got to say, they have a very good point. Manchester does not fair much better. No.1 Deansgate, Harvey Nichols and Urbis are all shown as building […]

I saw BBC Breakfast this morning including the interview with David Cameron about his new campaign to tackle personal debt. Part of the campaign excerpt they played had words bleeped out. (unbleeped version here)
They then went on to question David Cameron about the use of this word (without actually saying what it was). I assumed […]

I’ve had two emails this week from people warning me about scams and viruses which turn out to be hoaxes. The first was the Invitation Virus Hoax and the second was that old classic, the #90 telephone scam hoax.
What I find amazing, is the fact that people blindly forward these hoaxes to everyone in their […]