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Driver comes home in the early hours. He can't find a parking space so he sounds his horn, probably waking up everyone and causing babies to start yelling. Irate neighbour bites his ear off. A harsh punishment, but probably a deterrent...

An interesting article in the Telegraph. Unfortunately the photographs shed no light on the matter as they only show head and shoulders. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/15/senior-policewoman-suspended-after-spat-with-female-colleague-ov/

An MEP who dishonestly claimed about £100,000 in expenses with a "sustained pattern of stealing" has been jailed for four years. Peter Skinner, 56, who was Labour MEP for the South East from 1999 to 2014, was found guilty of three charges after a trial at Southwark Crown Court...

Two bank holidays and perhaps some exciting football to watch on them. Not any longer. All we get is yet another international break for some tedious, noddy friendlies nobody cares about.

GMP officer given written warning over Hitler Facebook post PC Shahid Shah posted a 'grossly offensive' image of Israel president Benjamin Netanyahu beside Adolf Hitler on the social media site...

Who is right in this matter? The parents who pay for the school or the teacher who they pay to work there? http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/wigan-headteacher-stands-up-homophobia-11017202

When you give money to a charity to you want it to go on staff perks? http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/hospital-bosses-splash-16000-charity-10907213

What consequences? I've said my piece and have no more to say on the topic, so withdrawing my privelege to post on it are of no concern to me. It's fun being banned form a topic. It shows my post hit a nerve.

The Sheridan Suite in Manchester has cancelled a booking by the North West Friends of Israel. I wonder why. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35377771

I am so excited.

Watching Manchester City is one of the most expensive days out in the Premier League. A pie, cup of tea, programme and the cheapest adult matchday ticket at the Etihad comes to £51 according to the BBC's Price of Football Study for 2015. That's the second highest total for all four items in...

I disagree with it, unless the match is advertised as a charity match. Football screws as much as it can out of the fans and is obviously not run on an altruistic basis. I've no problem with that, but given the sport's usual mercenary and grasping attitude it is a bit rich for it to then...

The Guardian tells us Nearly half of young British adults say they aren’t exclusively heterosexual. It can ony be a good thing http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/18/bisexual-british-adults-define-gay-straight-heterosexual So, all you young Bluemooners, how hetersosexual are you?

Gorton has the lowest prescription rate for anti-depressants in the Manchester area, one of only three places in the region happier than the national average. Any Gorton people care to tell us why its such an upbeat sort of place...

This Sunday's Super League match at Salford's AJ Bell Stadium is free entry for everyone. Sunday 3pm. Free entertainment.

Remember that recent thread where a bloke told us he was selling up because the area had changed because of lots of new people arriving? It caused a big fuss. Here's an article showing the UK population increase by area. What is noticeable is that most of the areas of the highest population...

Cat Stevens has just been awarded a lifetime achievement award by the BBC. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32397847" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32397847</a> Here is Guardian journalist Nick Cohen reminding us...

Local Green Party candidate for Stalybridge and Hyde Jenny Ross, a person who has appeared on the BBC many times, is making news at the moment. <a class="postlink" href="http://order-order.com/2015/03/23/green-party-candidate-in-sick-nazi-cancer-slur/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return...

Where is this match? I can't find the venue on City's website or the UEFA one.