THE HULME TUNE

On The Hulme Tune, Thursday 26 June @ 10-11am on ALL FM 96.9:

We have an exclusive interview with Italian Film Director, Mimmo Calopresti, when he visited Manchester on 12th June.

LIVE guest will be Dave Morgan, who’s performing “Hovis In Wonderland” for Not Part Of Festival on Tuesday 8th July at Matt & Phreds Jazz Club in the Northern Quarter.

Chill Factore are hosting “An Evening of Selfridges Fashion, Music and Celebrity, on Snow!” this Tuesday 1st July. With special guest appearance of the British Alpine Ski Team & ski demonstration. There will be a fashion show and live music entertainment. Paul & Kaite will be there to interview the BAS Team and others. More details see Chill Factore and Manchester Confidential

News about Henry Winkler coming to Manchester. You know, the guy who played the Fonz in the 70’s US sitcom “Happy Days”.

The British Urban Collective is coming to Manchester and auditions are being held at the Zion Arts Centre.

MUSIC: Joe Loss & his Orchestra “In The Mood”, Alex Gaudino ft Shena “Watch Out”, Coldplay “Viva La Vida”..

FULL Italian Contemporary Cinema event interviews available from weekend on www.mymanchester.net and www.allfm.org as well the Podcast from the show.

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‘Paulasville’ is not about a house on a hill, but a city gone down it. This is Zion Young Actors Company’s debut performance and I think they’re gonna grow us.

This atmospheric gritty production starts off well, with good audience interaction and the visual effects from 3 projectors and smoke machine all adding to the effect. There’s an excellent performance from the Sanitary Department of the company that runs the city. Which makes you think that these guys are putting heart and soul into their parts and having fun.

Then it seemed to lose its momentum, towards the end, that captured me from scene 1. It looked as though the beginning was well worked on, with the end looking rushed. Some of the actors were quieter and, with people eating crisps, made me wonder what was going on. I would have liked to have seen total blackout in 1 or 2 scene changes and a rat in the rubbish. If the stage would have been larger then some of the props could have been left on stage in the shadows, so the pace could have kept increasing without interruption. Which, I think, was the idea behind Act II.

They need to work with masks more effectively to bring them alive. For the body language and head movements were more reminiscent of crash-test dummies. Instead of looking like police, I thought they were bank robbers.

Still, it was enjoyable to watch and I didn’t look at my watch once. The fact that I don’t wear one, has nothing to do with it. I wasn’t even yawning or scratching, which showed, that for a couch potato like me, it must have caught my interest throughout.

‘Paulasville’ is running every night at the Zion Arts Centre, Stretford Rd, Hulme, until Saturday night.

Seriously, it takes a person in power, educated unto ignorance, to come up with the stupid rules which effects those on Incapacity Benefit living independently and wanting to do permitted work.

This Government says you can earn up to £81 a week for 16 hours and not effect your Incap. It seems a good deal.. doesn’t it? But, when you look into it more, you find that this Government takes it back, all but £20 or £5, by stealth again for those who rent their homes.

Yes, I would get to keep the money and benefits; but Housing and Council Tax Benefit is reduced so much that, after working for 16 hours, I would only get to keep £5 after paying FULL rent and Council Tax (don’t remind me). What a load of b*****it.

How dumb can you be and still breath? Which Bright Elected Representative Kingpin (BERK) in the Government stopped any incentive for me, who’s on Incap, to do any paid p/t permitted work at all?

£5 FOR 16 HOURS IS SLAVE LABOUR - WHERE IS THE INCENTIVE IN THAT?

Perhaps this money that this Government gets back goes on MP’s second homes - new kitchens for all + new chandeliers + cleaners + decor+ landscape gardening + maybe we are paying their Council Tax + window cleaning + new fitted carpets + expensive mahogany furniture and 4 poster beds for all 4 or more bedrooms? While some of us on Incap are still trying to keep one single roof over our heads and wondering how we make ends meet! Is this where some of the duty on fuel is going?

Any jobs going in Parliament? I could do with 2 homes and being chauffeur driven or helicopter to work.

Why doesn’t this Government do something more constructive and not obstructive - change this stupid rule?

A street in Manchester became the location for the new ITV 3-part drama series “Wired” today. Great Bridgewater Street, off Oxford St, was turned into Prince’s Street EC2, with a London bus and the bar “Temple” being a London Underground station. Some of the shots were filmed in London itself and today Manchester and then Liverpool next week.

WIRED stars Jodie Whittaker (Venus, St Trinians), Toby Stephens (Jane Eyre, Die Another Day), Charlie Brookes (Eastenders), Laurence Fox (Lewis) and Sacha Dhawan (Splintered, Bradford Riots) and is about a £250m Internet bank fraud. The gang use an innocent mum to steal money.

You can just make out Beetham Tower in the background.

The series will be shown on ITV in Autumn this year.

Now spot the mistake on the set?

The number at the bus stop is ‘2′ while the number on the bus is ‘96′.

A costly mistake, if it is a mistake that is, to come back to Manchester and shoot it again. Maybe, they just film the back of the bus? Perhaps, the bus was hijacked? Or, the bus got diverted? What if the mum is a bus driver and wanted to stop off at the bank?

Guess I’ll have to wait until the Autumn to find out.

Paul Ridyard and his lovely assistant Kate Boltain bring you interviews, reports, great music, what’s on and gig info from Hulme & Central Manchester going out live bi-weekly on Thursday 12 June - with humour to have you laughing ’til lunch.Tune in to ALL FM 96.9 or listen live online at www.allfm.org

HELP - that is. Obviously some of the info is private and this would give the council insight to a new strategy and we don’t want to give them an inch… do we?

The good news is, is that the bailiffs cannot break into my flat to take my stuff - it’s illegal for them to do so. Something the council nor Jacob’s doesn’t want the public to know. Each of the bailiff’s visits cost me £24 for the first one and £18 for the next one. Yet, all they can do is stand outside - in the pouring rain, I hope. It will put an extra £44 on the total bill and me, being on Incapacity Benefit, cannot afford this cruel diabolical extra cost by this Manchester City (Mafia) Council. ‘PAY or DIE!!!’ - so to speak.

Who cares if I become homeless - AGAIN! They certainly don’t.

What if Manchester City Council made me homeless? Well, the council would give me a newly built flat within a month and £500+ worth of goods from DWP benefits and then another Council Tax bill to welcome me back with.

If only this Government could invest in helping us heavily, poor, over council-taxed souls on to a new brighter positive path to better mental & physical health and further educating all into university for free and thus freeing our minds from the torment of stresses, anxieties and depression due to Council Tax payment withdrawals, with the threat of an unscheduled house clearance courtesy of Manchester City Council.

Then moving, with forward thinking, to the beams of endless possibilities of career opportunities. Therefore, gloriously transforming our ignored human existence from parasite to contributor? Which previously awaited those that were privileged and exclusive, having parents on such high incomes that they can afford to pay all of their 2.4 off-springs’ University fees 10 times over.

I did go to the CAB in Hulme, after all. They were very nice and, more importantly, very helpful indeed. I may be able to get even more money in unclaimed benefits.

In the meantime, all this is costing YOU the council tax payer even more money as the administration cost to local government mounts up. Which leads to higher council tax rates next year and a deficit in this year’s council budget. All thanks to Gordon (Ebenezer) Brown, our very own Sheriff of Nottingham, and now he’s Prime Minister. Give it to the poor in one hand and take it back with the other - tighter than a Russian economy.

By now it must have cost the council more money than the £112.33 owed. Not my problem, as the cost to this council increases every month.

Dear Government,

It would have been cheaper to the British tax payer if you gave those on Incapacity Benefit FULL Housing and Council Tax Benefits.

Signed.. ME

Will I pay it… maybe.. eventually, when it cost this council more and more money in the administration costs alone.

I can’t wait until Manchester City Council takes a man with a disability, on benefits, to court to face jail. Prisons are over crowded, so they’ll release him by letting him off. Then he doesn’t have to pay the council tax bill at all .. He won’t have to do the time.. and YOU pay the cost in legal fees, on both sides, and this resulting in increased council taxes. When people do come out of prison, they get a new home, benefits and money for household items and re-decorating, incentives to get more education (I hear) and a social worker to help them claim every penny from the Government - British tax payer, again, footing the bill.

Hopefully, this Government or the next one may see clearly that there needs to be a change to give those who have a disability on Incap full H&CT Benefit. To live independent lives - not having to go back to living with aging parents, to be a burden to them, or ask a friend to put them up and risk their Housing Benefit being stopped.

Why did the Government introduce the Council Tax in the first place?

Man Jumps off Double Decker Bus

A man jumped off a double decker bus in Manchester city centre in front of crowds today. The man in his 20’s wasn’t injured. The incident left him a little shaken, though. He said he was doing it for Jesus.

I was able to capture his stunt on my mobile phone and now you can see it for yourselves. I decided to investigate further for mywebconnect.info.

It was all part of an array of performances put on by The Message Trust called the Eden Project, which uses 2 double decker buses to tour the North West with a message to transform young people’s lives.

The Eden Buses are two high-tech mobile youth centres wrapped in funky youth-themed vinyl graphics and armed with the latest in sound and visual technology. These amazing buses are designed to meet young people from all backgrounds who need someone to talk to.

This is an exciting way for both primary and secondary schools to deliver parts of their curriculum. The buses have excellent on-board presentation facilities, and are often called in when RE lessons need to have that extra dimension!

www.themessage.org.uk

 

The organisation started out in 1988 as Message to Schools then became the The World Wide Message Tribe, fronted by Andy Hawthorne, to impact young people with the Christian message of God’s love and forgiveness. This then went on to now what is called The Message and grew further to include the Eden Project.

We have been working in the city for 15 years and have developed a ‘knack’ for being able to get through to the hardest to reach young people. To enable this we operate a range of projects on the streets, in the community, in schools and in prisons, all with the aim of bringing hope, providing opportunities and releasing potential.

In brief, The Message…

• Runs 9 ‘Eden’ youth projects where over 100 volunteers live and work in tough urban contexts
• Delivers around 2000 hours of youth work every month through over 300 separate activities
• Is in contact with an average of 5,000 young people every month all over the city
• Provides a safe ‘off the street’ environment for 500 young people every week using 2 high-tech mobile youth centres
• Visits 20 high schools every year with inspirational pop group ‘Blush’
• Helps break the cycle of youth crime through innovative work in the region’s Young Offenders Institutions
• Operates a top-spec arts and music training centre in South Manchester

I am waiting to hear if they will come on my radio show.

The crowd were entertained by 4 gorgeous girls known as BLUSH, with more stunts from 3 guys known as Airborne.

Also, in the crowd, was a tea-time God TV youth presenter - but the God TV website doesn’t have the list of youth presenters or its programme. I said hello. Then she suddenly ran off chasing her son, before I could get her name, and disappeared in to the mixing tent.

Man Jumps off Stage

I did go down to Manchester City Council to see why they had sent the bailiffs round to my flat to seize my property. The £112.33 owing was accumulated over a period of a few years, where I struggled to pay the ridicules amount that the council, through this Government, were charging those on Incapacity Benefit.

When they first wrote to me about the amount, they asked me how much I could afford. I told them that I could only afford to pay £5 per month. However, this was rejected and MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL threatened to send bailiffs. I told them that I am on benefits and cannot afford to pay the council’s heavy demand.

I could hardly believe what I was reading. I miss read it. I thought they meant I owed £20 and not that they wanted £20 per month.

I AM STILL PAYING WHAT I CAN out of the little I get off the Government. With the soaring rises of gas and electricity costs, incl. water charges, this Government is making it more and more difficult for people on benefits to live independently.

How many more are suffering the injustice of this heavy handed city council?

This afternoon, when I went to find out why Manchester City Council was sending bailiffs round to seize the little I have, they STILL REFUSED TO ALLOW ME TO PAY WHAT I OWE AT £5 p/m

People I know have suggested seeing the Citizens Advice Bureau. But, if Manchester City Council won’t listen to me, what can CAB do that I couldn’t? Would the council listen to them?

I find it disgusting the way this council treats the poor on benefits and act like vicious debt collectors with no mercy!

I’ve just rang MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL bailiffs and they say that in order to cover costs they will take £1,000 worth of goods for a supposed CT bill of £112.33, which I don’t have the money or a £1,000 in goods and this could mean a total clearance of my flat. If this is so, then it could leave me homeless. It’s ironic that this Government is wanting people to come off the streets, but then, when they do, they want to put them right back on them.

I was homeless once. You try to build a life again and the Government just wants prevent any chance you may have.

If I try to steal the money at least they will send me to jail where I will have a roof over my head. Then they will release me or let me off seeing that prisons are over-full.

I rang the MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL bailiffs this morning and had to leave a message. I told them that I had been awarded Council Tax Benefit. I also told them that I am unwilling to pay, seeing that I refuse to steal the money or pay it in installments, and that they can come and take my goods away.

If they take my old furniture and other things, I can then apply to the Department of Work & Pensions and put a in a new claim for new furniture. To replace the junk the Manchester City Council bailiffs will take.

The real loser here is the tax payer. All thanks to either incompetence of Manchester City Council’s Council Tax Unit not updating Jacobs Certified Bailiffs or this Government wanting to make the poor very poor indeed.

Either way.. if I am still paying my council tax, then why am I being victimised by this council? If it really is a Manchester City Council error, then it is the British tax payer that will, in the end, foot the bill. Why should I worry and make my condition worse over this? This type of thing can make even the healthiest person sick and I am sick & tired of this Sheriff of Nottingham style Government treating us poor like this. They’re not going to put me in an early grave!

Do you remember that time when a certain council took a pensioner to jail over this? This was the Government again, making sure that the poor, the needy, the vulnerable of our society is worse off - without a voice.. until the press got wind of it. Well, I, too, have a voice and I’m going to SHOUT!

You may think, ‘Why doesn’t he write to his MP, Tony Lloyd?’

Glad you asked! I did. All he did was write to the HB&CTB and all they did was to send an officer around to check that it was really me living here - he did nothing to bring it to Parliament and try to change the way Councils and the DofW&P takes back the money given to the poor. Twice when I complained to Tony Lloyd MP all I got was a visit from HB&CTB. When I ring him, his secretary is very rude to me.

1 in 5 people in the North West claim Incapacity Benefits. That’s 1 million people out of 5 million - that is a lot of voters.

I’ll laugh at the next letter I receive from Jacobs as well.