No news from Manchester except Ryanair Liverpool announcement
Today was one of those ‘no-news’ days in Manchester. A flick through the Manchester Evening News, teletext and repeated hearings of Radio Manchester news reports revealed no substantial news stories from Manchester. On days like this, other stories have to be called in to fill in newspaper columns, radio news bulletins or electronic pages.
And a major story in today’s Manchester news, was not actually news and not actually from Manchester. It was a press release from Irish low-cost airline Ryanair in which they announced that they will be introducing eight new routes from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. The ‘news’ included figures relating to Liverpool John Lennon Airport passenger figures as well as details of projected tourist ’spend’ in the Liverpool region. Liverpool Airport is effectively Manchester’s second airport, and since the hourly bus service began not so long ago, it’s also far cheaper and more convenient to get there than it was before.
But if you’re tempted, like me, to trip over to Tampere, Kaunas or Santander, you’ll have to wait until 3 October, as that’s when the service begins. I wish something I plan to do on the 3rd of October could make the local news reports as easily as the Ryanair press release. For more information, do a search for Liverpool Airport and Ryanair.
Ryanair jets at Stansted Airport near London
Just because there was no news from Manchester, didn’t mean that nothing happened here. One thing worth shouting about was the glorious weather which we had for a second day. I was out and about taking photographs in Moss Side, Gorton and Ardwick.
Stagecoach Bus on Princess Road Moss Side Manchester
On a less cheerful note, I witnessed the aftermath of a motorcycle accident on Alan Turing Way, the A6010 in Gorton, at around 4.30pm. A car was in collision with a motorbike, which lay on its side in the middle of the road. Shaken car passengers were being tended by the emergency services. The rider, apparently unconscious, was being lifted by paramedics onto a stretcher. I caught all this out of the corner of my eye as I turned right from Gorton Lane, I didn’t stop or ‘rubber-neck’.
A Day In The Life of the emergency services – who I see very often, speeding up and down Upper Brook Street in ambulances or police cars – now that would make an interesting Eye On Manchester feature, or maybe a Night In The Life. Watch this space.
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