Joanne Bardhi, 24, from Bootle, had waited patiently at Carcraft on the East Lancashire Road while her car was driven to Shropshire and back by another unsuspecting motorist.
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In Liverpool, a driver was rather surprised when she took her Mini for an MoT and it was inadvertently went on a 220-mile trip. Among the visitors was Ted Robbins, star of TV's Phoenix Nights and a regular presenter on Radio Lancashire. On Saturday, villagers celebrated the completion of external work by looking at the building's history. The dilapidated site was used by Lancashire county council as a library and a youth and community centre, with part of the building being run as a clinic by the East Lancashire Primary Care Trust. The residents of this wonderfully named place celebrated the first stage of a £500,000 library and village centre refurbishment by holding a day to look into its past.Ĭrawshawbooth Library, in Adelaide Street, closed in November to allow for the complete refurbishment of the premises, improved facilities and the provision of new services for the community, reports the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. The charity Fostering Network said 760 carers were "urgently" needed across the north-west.Ĭrawshawbooth is a great northern name, almost a triumvirate of names in one.
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One hundred and fifty-seven children per 10,000 are under council care, nearly three times the national rate.įigures released last year showed the city had 695 children placed with council foster parents, plus 246 more with "external" foster carers – chiefly provided by private agencies. Manchester's new policy comes despite a historic shortage in foster parents. The authority has some of the highest smoking-related death rates in the UK.
It is the first local authority to take the decision after reviewing policies on placing children in care to protect them from the effects of passive smoking. The story, which appeared in this week's Manchester Evening News, notes that the city council will not place boys and girls under two with smokers and that the carers of older children must agree to smoke outside their homes. Funny that.Īfter a couple deemed to be too fat to adopt children, in Leeds, council chiefs in Manchester are to ban smokers from adopting under twos. "There hasn't been a lot of research into whoopee cushion acoustics in the past," he added. The academic said he began the experiment to coincide with National Science and Engineering Week, that ends on 15 March, and Red Nose Day tomorrow. In fact, one of the results we found was that the longer the whoopee cushion sound the funnier it was."Ī total of 20 noises were produced with six sounds available each time a person goes to the website, he added. The funniest sound was a really long whoopee cushion sound which went on for about seven seconds. "I thought we should do a funny science experiment. The professor of acoustic engineering, who incidentally is the owner of one of the world's largest whoopee cushions (3 metres in diameter) said: "The whoopee cushion has a great deal in common with the human voice and how instruments work, so it is a memorable way of portraying the principles of acoustics. Not surprisingly, it turned out to be the noise of a person vomiting, re-created using a bucket of baked beans. Two years ago, the professor conducted an experiment to find the worst sound. The fortnight-long web experiment at included six sound samples that are rated with faces containing a range of differing expressions.
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