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Down at the real FarmVille
Posted on 5:32pm Tuesday 9th March 2010
Why sit at your personal computer playing FarmVille on Facebook when you can head down to the 'Real FarmVille' - Middle Farm on the A27 - instead.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
‘T’ is for Travel Tribulations
Posted on 2:38pm Wednesday 24th February 2010
Cones on the road driving you 'potholey', lemming-like pedestrians under your wheels and naked body scanning at Gatwick Airport - what is a motorist/traveller in the South to do?
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Brighton’s parking charges may be hitting the roof... but what about the roof of my van?
Posted on 2:47pm Wednesday 10th February 2010
Brighton's rising parking charges may be putting off shoppers, while van drivers are literally taking it on the chin. Meanwhile, those using public transport may encounter the infamous 'nutter on the bus'...
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Most Annoying Media Obsessions of 2009
Posted on 1:19pm Friday 22nd January 2010
An ironic look at the biggest media hypes and obsessions of 2009, from Swine Flu and sleaze to snow.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
There’s no business like snow business...
Posted on 3:51pm Thursday 7th January 2010
As the Big Freeze continues, is it engendering community spirit or are we becoming risk assessment-obsessed wimps?
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
New Year's Freeze?
Posted on 5:36pm Tuesday 29th December 2009
More inclement weather is forecast for this week. Will New Year's Eve turn into New Year's Freeze, with party-goers slip-sliding in their unsuitable footwear, and where is all the salt anyway?
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A lack of passion for 80s fashion
Posted on 3:03pm Thursday 10th December 2009
A lot of 80s fashions are appearing on the high street. Jo Chipchase isn't convinced that they were great first time round, nor that they have especially improved with 'age'...
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
How to budget for Christmas? Save yourself the bother...
Posted on 4:43pm Thursday 26th November 2009
Do people really need to 'budget for Christmas' - what's wrong with the concept of 'its the thought that counts' and having a festive season that falls within your means?
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
How to put teens off pregnancy: why not expose them to births and screaming infants
Posted on 4:11pm Friday 20th November 2009
Official attempts to curb teen pregnancies are failing: clearly, dishing out advice and condoms isn't doing the trick. Jo Chipchase suggests a new approach of exposing teens to painful births and screaming infants to put them off pregnancy.
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Brown is in firing line over Afghanistan but misspelled letter fuss did tabloids no favours
Posted on 6:58pm Tuesday 10th November 2009
An outcry is currently raging over the payment of bonuses to MoD personnel at a time when more equipment is needed for squaddies in Afganistan. Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has only just escaped the firing line over his misspelled letter of condolence to the mother of deceased guardsman, Jamie James. However, from a PR point of view, in the case of "misspelled lettergate", the tabloids shot themselves in the foot, while the PM gained Brownie points.
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Just talking rubbish...
Posted on 12:05pm Tuesday 3rd November 2009
With the possibility of a bin men's strike upon us, Jo Chipchase discusses her penchant for communal bins like they have in Spain, instead of weekly refuse collections where we must accommodate our festering black bags on our own premises...
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Crossing Jordan: I won’t be slinging mud
Posted on 2:32pm Wednesday 21st October 2009
The newspaper reading public is constantly cussing Jordan but are other women simply jealous of self-made successes and keen to shoot down convenient targets?
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Naked human X-rays in airports: do we really want this technology to take off?
Posted on 3:52pm Thursday 15th October 2009
Manchester Airport has recently installed a human X-ray machine as an alternative to body frisking when passengers reach security. However, is this a harmless technology to speed up the process and avoid queues or is it an example of 'Big Brother' taking over in Britain?
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Why Sharon Shoesmith should Win a ‘PR Spade and Shovel’ Award
Posted on 3:26pm Monday 12th October 2009
I avidly followed the Baby P case after it exploded into the headlines in November 2008 and was, from the start, surprised by the lack of PR sense and humility displayed by Sharon Shoesmith, the ex-head of Haringey children’s services who was sacked after shortcomings in her department’s child protection systems came to light.
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