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Home or Away – Is That "Staycation" Right For You?
St Neots residents are just the latest group to join in the growing trend for holidays at home. We asked local people how they were coping without their yearly trip to Toremellinos. Everton Waresly, an Eynesbury resident, told us that he’d be packing his all-in-one £29.99 Argos 10-man tent, sleeping bags, table & chairs,... »
Surprise As Club Shuts After 11 Months
Rubbish St Neots club Worx closed its doors last week, after the credit crunch apparently drove residents to drink at home. Ignoring the fact that the Priory seemed to be busy as ever, a spokesman for Teeth-Moss Entertainment, who own the venue in the former Job Centre as well as similarly-doomed Stripes Bar &... »
Confusion As Entire Country Does Not Move Into Town Centre
A spokesman for the Icelandic government today announced that the entire country was not packing up and relocating to empty local Woolworths stores. Prime Minister Geir Haarde’s aide Olaaf Davesson re-iterated earlier statements that the country, and it’s population, was staying put. “I am as acutely aware as the rest of Europe,” said Davesson,... »
Woolworths To Become New Shopping Concept
Word on the street in St Neots is that Woolies is to make way for an all-in-one shopping complex, the like of which the town has never seen. Beatty Broadband, of the Chinese Whispers Distribution Depot (now incorporating the St Neots Rumour Mill) limited, said that the company had been keeping a tab on all... »
Company Begs Council To Reconsider
Northampton-based traffic calming company Dog’s Bollards has begged St Neots Town Council to consider traffic calming Nelson Road as a priority. The firm supplies and installs speed humps, barriers and bollards, mini roundabouts and all other types of traffic calming, as well as traffic lights and cycle lanes. But the economic downturn has hit... »
Local Man Relieved After Abbey Purchase
Luke Street resident Dave Elsan, 19, was today said to be relieved after banking group Santander, who own Abbey, purchased failed Bradford & Bingley. B&B this week became the latest victim of the banking crisis, following swiftly behind Lehman Brothers and HBOS; and was broken up for sale. “I was petrified,” said Elsan. “The... »
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