Technoboy's blog

This was a really fun day and a well attended event organised by Eastlands Homes for it's customers, the aim was to gather feedback on how well they may be doing regarding the services they provide. It also provided an opportunity to bring communities together on a day that was full of fun things to do, there was a wonderful atmosphere, very relaxed, and all credit should go to the staff from Eastlands Homes who made it a day to remember.

Eastserve have now gone out to tender in an attempt to broaden the network, it is hoped that it will cover all of Manchester. Manchester city council want a citywide network and this is how they plan to achieve it

Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve is among the latest politicians to sign a House of Commons motion over the right to take photographs in public unchallenged.

The Conservative MP for Beaconsfield, who is also the Shadow Attorney General, is among 240 MPs to back the Early Day Motion, tabled by Labour MP Austin Mitchell.

Motorists who fail to pay three parking tickets face having their cars clamped or even towed away under new laws due to take effect in two months.

Council-employed traffic wardens will gain the power to take immediate action if they notice a car with three unpaid parking fines, even if the vehicle is parked legally at the time. The owner will only be able to reclaim the car once the fines have been paid.

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WORK on a massive £1billion project to build 4,300 new homes in east Manchester will soon get under way.

The 95-acre Holt Town Waterfront - between Miles Platting, Sportcity and New Islington - is the largest planning application ever to be approved in Manchester, as well as being one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK.

The new urban quarter will not only provide new homes built over the next 10-15 years, but also a new primary school,
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TWO film-making friends with a budget of just £7 have become an internet sensation.

Olivia, Explorer, the latest film project by Francesca Sophia, 19, and Hayley Stuart, 20, has chalked up more than a million hits and scores of rave reviews after being picked to appear on YouTube's global website.

The short film - which stars Francesca's seven-year-old niece, Olivia - follows the adventures of a girl who gets left behind when her family go on holiday to Wales.
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Tough new visa regimes could be introduced for 11 countries following the first global review of who needs a visa to come to the UK, the Government announced today.

Everyone applying for a UK visa now has their fingerprints checked before their identity is fixed.  So far more than two million sets of fingerprints have been collected with checks flagging up almost 3,000 attempted identity swaps.

The Visa Waiver Test reviewed all non European countries against a set of
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Thought I would bring this forward, so that people who wish to enter or volunteer can do it now. 

Tree-athlon 2008 to be held in Heaton Park, Manchester this year. 

In the true spirit of the traditional triathlon, we are back with this three-part event: a 5 km run, an opportunity to tell the world what your urban tree wish is, and a chance to plant a sapling. 

Today was a bit special, as a community reporter I got to visit the BBC along with fellow community reporters, and take a look behind the scenes of the Northwest Tonig