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Valentine’s Day is coming, look busy! – Episode 47

February 7, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, this week in the run up to Valentine’s Day I’m having a bit of a love-themed episode.

In the week that Manchester was voted number 8 in a list of “The Happiest Places to work” in The Guardian I thought it would be good to get a head start on Valentine’s Day.

You’ll hear from Cheryl of Highfields Florists, Mike from The Card Shop and a special word from Stuart of The Vineyard on how he has love in a bottle!

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Baratxuri victim of vandalism

February 6, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

One of the most popular new restaurants Baratxuri has suffered at the hands of vandalism. An altercation on the street happened which resulted in a wheelie bin being thrown through the window. Staff and customers of Baratxuri were not involved with the individuals and it was an unprovoked case of mindless vandalism.

It seems to be quite a common occurence in Ramsbottom, a few years back there was a spree of windows being smashed on Bridge Street with Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary being hit twice over a few years.

I just spoke to Mike from The Card Shop on Bolton Street who has also had his window smashed in the past. He said “I know how I felt when I arrived to find that, so I can only imagine how Baratxuri are feeling”

Could picking blackberries become illegal?!

February 3, 2016 by Lee

What would you say if I told you that you could be arrested for picking a blackberry? You’d think I was crazy right?

Well Bristol City Council are attempting to introduce a byelaw that would criminilise the act of picking “the whole or any part of any plant, shrub or tree” from any of the proposed 212 parks and green spaces around the city.

Something fishy in Nuttall Park – Episode 46

January 31, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, this week we’ve had more dodgy weather with another storm coming in and battering the North West, this time it was storm Gertrude. I was out on Saturday and saw the fishmonger on Ramsbottom Market having a tough time of it in the wind with their signs blowing all over the place.

There’s just very little you can do to secure them in such strong winds. As well as the strong wind we’ve had downpours of hail and thunder and lightning.

You can’t say we don’t have some dramatic weather up here in Ramsbottom, storm chasers need not look very far.

Black Pudding debunked as a superfood?

January 25, 2016 by Lee

I’m sure you’ve heard all over the news recently that Black Pudding is now being considered a “superfood” although technically that doesn’t mean much as “superfood” doesn’t really mean anything.

There is no official or legal definition of a superfood. The Oxford English dictionary, for example, describes a superfood as “a nutrient-rich food considered to be especially beneficial for health and well-being”, while the Merriam-Webster dictionary omits any reference to health and defines it as “a super nutrient-dense food, loaded with vitamins, minerals, fibre, antioxidants, and/or phytonutrients”. Generally speaking, superfoods refer to foods — especially fruits and vegetables — whose nutrient content confers a health benefit above that of other foods.*

*Source: European Food Information Council