Words Dept.: archive

Manchester Confidential has been emailing some of its subscribers today asking for £11.20 a month, £30 a quarter or £100 a year to continue to access the site and receive a slew of new “benefits”. The site, which has 260,000 (free) subscribers, announced plans for the paid subscription model last month. Its first move involves [...]

I went to Sheffield Doc/Fest last week. It’s a film festival especially for documentaries and I saw a number of rocking films. My special pick was Junior, which is about the most gripping character-based doc I’ve ever seen, thanks to the uniqueness of the central characters Eddie Belasco (75) and his “Ma” (98), who have [...]

The blog has now been fixed. It was offline for a couple of days after someone hacked it and redirected it to something Google didn’t like, which resulted in many seemingly intractable problems. Mercifully, someone pointed me in the direction of Manchester-based WordPress guru Simon Wheatley, who identified and fixed the problem in about ten [...]