In Manchester, where I am proud to live, there is a museum incorporating the track where the world's first passenger train ran in the 1830s. Now it is threatened with closure.

Read more

Sometimes the Doctor can't save us, and we just have to do it ourselves


( Read more... )

Imagine this. You work as a dinner lady (oh sorry, I should have said lunchtime organiser) at a small primary school. On duty in the playground, you find a seven year old girl tied to a fence being whipped - yes, whipped - by four boys. You intervene and later find out that the child has been sent home with a vaguely worded accident note referring ( Read more... )

I mentioned a few days ago that I was off to the Cheltenham Lit Fest to hear RTD and John Barrowman. In fact, there's rather more to the trip than a bit of fangirling ( Read more... )