The Big Short is one of my favourite films. It’s a fast-paced, irreverent story about how a group of weirdos and outsiders bet on the 2008 financial crisis. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to …
It was reported last month in the St Helens Star that “St Helens Council has given its backing to a bid that it says will will put the borough at the forefront of a Liverpool City Region Freeport” (the grammatical error is theirs) What is a freeport? In the City Region Freeport Summary Bid a …
Who benefits from the proposed St Helens Freeport? Read More »
Here is thefull St Helens dataset for Arts Council funding
An urgent alert has been issued about the “Phantom Tennis Prowler of St Helens”. Concerns have been raised about a “furtive looking character” seen loitering in and around public sports facilities in the St Helens area. Exclusive CCTV footage confirm eye-witness reports of a man \”brandishing\” a tennis racket described as “having seen better days”. …
Which ones do you think are photoshopped? Answers on a postcard to the 1st Floor in Century House…… It raises interesting digital skills opportunities that could improve employability, for instance, Photoshop exercises in which you have to do a good version and a bad version. You really have to know what you doing if you …
In an FOI to the Arts Council, we can reveal how arts funding was awarded in St Helens over the last 5 years. It shows how over 50% of the funding goes to one only one organisation. A local arts charity called Heart of Glass (HEART OF GLASS ST HELENS) LTD). Out of £6,902,435 Heart …
In this short clip we speak to Councillor David O’Keefe. I think it’s safe to safe from our chat that David doesn’t feel he has been treated fairly. However it is also important to understand that this is David’s side of the story. We touch in this clip on the complaint about his resignation from …
Cllr David O’Keefe: On resigning from the Climate Change Committee for using the C-Word! Read More »
There is no fibre broadband on Hardshaw Street. Or to be more accurate, the exchange that supplies that area is not enabled. This is often called a “broadband black spot”. To quote Which magazine: “Broadband users in some of these areas might find it hard to carry out online banking or to use streaming services …
Broadband in Hardshaw Street not much better than Shetlands! Read More »
https://youtu.be/sJ7hgv1I26g We\’ve been working with UC Crew now for over a year, hosting breakdancing workshops, DJs and graffiti artists. Watch the video, where DJ Rasp and crew founder Tom Glynn taught the kids how to spin, scratch and throw shapes. You can find UC Crew on Facebook and Instagram. HackTV is on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, and everything we\’ve …
Any good video needs good sound. We didn\’t have anywhere to record quality voiceovers when we first moved into our unit in Church Square – but thankfully Reece was on the case. With a little bit of hard graft, and a lot of soundproofing foam, he was able to convert what looked like an indoor …
Reece\’s Epic Struggle to Build the HackTV Voice Booth. Read More »
