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Avanti will send you an e-mail link that you usually have 48/72 hours to reply to. It is a on-line video interview exercise where you are asked at least two maybe three interview style questions. You do get a 'warm up' question to begin with where you can re-record you answer to see how you...

This attack took place at my local train station and recently made the headlines in both the MEN and Wigan Today. The video of the attack is appaling to watch. No one should have to go to work and be assaulted. Thankfully, this human specimen has been given a two year prison sentence which at...

I do believe that we definately need a General Election. Public confidence in the government is rock bottom at a time when the Country is in a national crisis. The problem with electing someone like Penny M or Rishi S is that the knives are already out before they take over. They face an...

Good - Burnham is a complete and utter disgrace. The shenanigans and fallout within Greater Manchester Police (in which Burnham controls as Mayor) is probably just as bad if not worse than the Avanti fiasco (although I fully appreciate you cannot compare a police force with a rail company)...

Michael Sheard as Bronson has to be the most memorable teacher from the series. He was like Hitler. CJ

Very sad and such a shame Gywneth's death has been over shadowed by the death of that other great lady on the same day. She was one of those actors who I always though looked much older than she was. I watched an old clip of a Blue Peter interview she gave in 1991 when she left GH and Gwyneth...

I am assuming given the press releases about businesses closing on Monday (even McDonald's are shutting their doors until 5pm), most towns and cities will feel like an Easter Sunday, so I don't anticipate extra passenger travel outside of London (like 'local' journeys in other parts of the...

RIP Ma'am A very sad day for the whole Country, but at least we can be thankful for having the Queen as our leader for so long. Despite what we think of the new King, I'm sure he will shine a new light and move us forward through some challenging times. The next few days will be a sombre...

I could say exactly the same about the Manchester Mayor. Just a pity we've got another three years to put up with Burnham and his showboating in front of the media. Again, Burnham (like Khan) threw former GMP chief Ian Hopkins under a bus nearly two years ago. CJ

My own honest opinion of dating sites is - they are not great. I've used a handful of them over the last 10 years, including Match.com, Zoosch, My Single Friend and more recently the mobile phone dating apps Hinge and Bumble. The biggest issue with most of these sites is that they are built...

There is a site called Glassdoor where job salaries and company reviews are sometimes posted by current employees, ex-employees or simply those that have a attended an interview or assessment day with a prospective employer. Cross Country have a habit of not disclosing salaries on a lot of...

Thinking back to 2019/20 (pre-Covid), TPE and Northern were never that far away from the media with their appalling services - delays, cancellations and over crowding on the majority of peak time trains. Probably not much better than the current Avanti situation. CJ

Last night's Manchester Evening News stated Mayor Andy Burnham, City Council Leader Bev Craig and Sadiq Khan (London's Mayor) are all sending their own letters of complaint to Grant Shaaps about what is going on with AWC. It looks like this is now getting very political. CJ

Preston & Southport are two prominent places in the North West with no direct rail connection. The two options to rail travellers are making the short walk between the two village stations at Burscough that are on separate lines, or travelling further afield to Wigan to connect via the two...

I believe he was still doing radio work until very recently. Not bad for someone in their early 90s. I do recall he was in quite a few programmes when I was a child, but I haven't seen him in much in recent years. I read his autobiography a few years ago and it was an enjoyable book by a...

I'm very surprised there hasn't been a bit more in the media about this current situation with Avanti. The Northern & TPE timetable escapade in 2018/19 got quite alot of news coverage. At one stage Granada Reports ran a special evening edition from Preston Railway Station where the late Tony...

Tony Blair was quite young when he was elected in 1997. I think he was 43 or 44, so not much older than what Sunak is now. I was quite surprised when I read that Liz Truss is only 47 - I thought she was in her early to mid 50s when I saw pics of her at the start of the election campaign...

Avanti have unfortunately had two fatalities the last two days that hasn't helped the reliability of services. One was yesterday (Thurs) close to the Boars Head Bridge near Standish, north of Wigan and there was one today (Fri) at Broughton, just north of Preston. Extremely tragic for everyone...

I'm surprised Chris Whitty hasn't put in appearance yet to tell us all the implications of too much exposure to the sun. I'm guessing after the Covid affair he's probably keeping away from the Government and the media. CJ

Interestly one of the online news feeds had a top 10 hottest days of the year in the UK. Most of the list were from the last 20 years - I'm wondering if we can blame global warming for that? 25 July 2019 was the top of the list. 10 August 2003 ranked as 2nd, with today coming in at a...