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1. My New Year's resolution
Stockport Express, Wednesday 27 December 2006IF YOU have the good fortune to be a goose, people appreciate a pleasant plumpness in your person at Christmas. They'll even sing songs about you. But no one likes a fat reporter (with the possible exception of the corpulent fellows of Truffle Times).
2. All in a good Claus
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006Caroline Jack takes a trip down to the grotto to become Santa's little helper for a day and finds that even in this magical world you need your computer skills.
3. Ocean Colour Scene
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006EVER since Britpop dissolved in a rubble of hype and empty bluster in the mid-Nineties, it's become de rigeur for all the bands involved to firmly dissociate themselves from it.
4. The Very Berry Merry Metro Cocktail - created specially by Rob Jones
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006Ingredients
5. Sounds of festive fun
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006GET in the festive mood at Tatton Park tomorrow (Saturday) with Family Christmas Carols in the stable yard setting at this enjoyable Cheshire venue.
6. Bullet For My Valentine
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006THE last year was one in which rock music (that's proper, hardrock music) took on all manner of strange and exotic permutations.
7. A Little Bit About... Santa Claus
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006Father Christmas is a welcome and familiar figure in stores and shopping centres at this time of year. He traditionally lives in Greenland, although he is claimed by several other countries with plenty of snow and is universally recognised with his reindeer as the bringer of festive gifts and goodwill.
8. Christmas cocktails
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006WHEN it comes to cocktails, Manchester is playing cosmopolitan "catch-up" on cities like Sydney, according to Nathan Williams.
9. Keep it simple and create some winning tipples
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006THERE are three essential ingredients to making a good cocktail, according to 25-year-old Rob Jones, head mixologist at Obsidian Bar and Restaurant in Manchester's Princess Street.
10. Just mix a tot of skill with showmanship
Stockport Express, Friday 22 December 2006They are designed to leave you shaken and stirred - and cocktails are now a definite part of the festive celebrations. But how do you tell your Singapore Sling from your Last Mango in Paris? Angela Kelly investigates