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Wasp Nest

July 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff

Just had to have someone call to remove a massive wasps nest from inside the canopy over our front door, he said the next has probably been there for a few months, I cannot see how we missed it untill today, when all of a sudden there were thousands of wasps outside the front of [...]

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St Aelred’s Catholic Technology College

June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff

It seem that some local idiot posted a message on an anonymous forum page named "/b/" that he was going to visit St Aelreds School here in Newton today and harm people. They published a photo of themselves one of them brandishing a Gun, with a notesaying.. Tomorrow last day of School   /b/   [...]

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Why?

May 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Local Stuff

Why is it that people on bicycles think that they can take no notice at all of traffic lights being on red? -and- Why is it that police cars waiting at the same lights do nothing about it?

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Determined

December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff

I must get the gallery system on the newton-le-willows website up and running over xmas, I turned it off when it started to error a few months ago, and just have not found the time to get it working again, but I will find time over the xmas break.

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M.P. Expense’s: Constituency owned London Property

May 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Local Stuff

While chatting with a pal yesterday, he mentioned something which I think is a brilliant idea. Why doesn’t the Council for each area of the UK, each constituency, which sends an MP to sit in the House of Commons buy a property in London, and from then on that property will always be used as [...]

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Oxford Ambassador

November 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff

I am glad to be able to say that my daughter has been selected to participate in the Oxford Access Scheme Ambassador Programme being run by Oxford University, she is one of 37 school children from her age group, from around the UK, apparently around 5000 children from different schools applied to join the scheme, [...]

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Neolithic Burial Mound

July 7th, 2007 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff

In recent months I have been immersed with some real life stuffs, and following some of my other than www interests. Along with another local antiquarian Bob Heyes, and with the help of local Archaeologist and TV Presenter Mark Olly alnig with numerous Volunteers, we have been instrumental in the discovery of a Neolithic Burial [...]

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Long time , No Post!

January 21st, 2007 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff, Web Stuff

Its been ages since I last posted anything, no real reason why, just didnt think to. I did manage to transfer the whole of my Newton-le-Willows website into Joomla, lost a few things but otherwise the whole thing went ok At first I setup the forums as smf joomlaboard forums, but they just never seemed [...]

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postnuke 2 Joomla

August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff, Web Stuff

I have now done a few test conversions of a full working postnuke website into a joomla one Even managed to transfer all the forum posts from pnforum into joomlaboard. it wasn’t too difficult, finding the correct scripts via google and other forums was the hardest part. then i had to seperatly transfer all the [...]

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Nuke or Joomla!

July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Blog Stuff, Local Stuff, Web Stuff

I am in a dilemma, I have used postnuke for years, but lately am very disheartened with it, it seems to be lagging behind other systems, particulally Joomla. I have used postnuke for websites since day one of nukes creation, I have been stood back from the community for quite some years due to my [...]

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