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Hidden costs of the Edge bypass

Hidden costs of the Edge bypass

STOP the press: the Great Alderley Edge Bypass is on again…I think. Over the past 30 years the bypass scheme has been underground, over ground and wombling free longer than Uncle Bulgaria.

I know Alderley is permanently log jammed but I’m not convinced there’s ever been a serious effort to improve traffic flow.


 

When 'fine' is not fine

I WAS visiting the super surgery today when a doctor strolled by and acknowledged a group of patients.

Don't succumb to jealousy

AN OLD farmer friend died recently. I hardly recognised him in his latter years from the garrulous joker I’d befriended two decades earlier. His once mischievous sense of humour had been replaced by a sour cynicism.


 

Who is really in control over our roadworks?

Who is really in control over our roadworks?

THIS week’s strange quotation award must go to county councillor Eveleigh Moore-Dutton.

Every leisurely shoping trip has become like running the gauntlet

Every leisurely shoping trip has become like running the gauntlet

TIRED of being pestered in Mill Street I tried a spot of shopping in Wilmslow last Saturday.


 

 

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