Map of Stories From the Lancashire Evening Post

Here is a map that locates the main news stories from the Lancashire Evening Post on 16.11.08.


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Beware of the Man Flu

In recent weeks I have done battle with a most dangerous ailment, this has spurned me to share a warning for the common man



surely a poignant piece of journalism

A random map of the route between two University buildings - just for fun (if you're into that kind of thing)


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Anything they can do, can we do better?

With the dawning of a new era in American politics, I asked people of Preston whether they thought the time had come for a black Prime Minister of Great Britain and could they see it happening in the future.

Obama's Britain

I think it's safe to say that the past seven days have caused quite a stir in the world of politics. Tuesday night (or Wednesday morning, whichever way you want to look at it) saw the election of the very first black President of the United States of America. Not only that, but for the Democrat party, a political force that once fought so sternly in the corner of legalised slavery in America.

It is highly likely that this moment will be looked back on in years to come as one of the most significant periods in the progression of democracy since its conception by Plato himself. And many believe that not only does this send a message to the world of the change in social values within one of the most powerful nations on the planet, but it may signal a change towards world politics in general.

What brings this perceived change even greater leverage in the minds of projectionists and forward thinkers (usually divided up into the two common groups of ‘cynics’ and ‘eternal optimists’), is that not only will a new man take over the reins of America, but a new party too. With the differences between parties as significant as the differences between men, the world expects change, whether good or bad, the world expects it to be drastic.

The most obvious way in which America affects Britain aside from within the media of entertainment is through their foreign policy, made most famous by the way in which America chipped in with World War Two and how, in recompense, we kindly obliged to assist them in Afghanistan and Iraq in way of thanks. Such has been the way for the past eight years, America has gone, and Britain has followed.

What seems interesting to me now, is whether Britain will be more than happy to change her policies abroad to cater to a more appeasing, more liberal America of the future, (if that is, of course, the America of the future). Can Britain afford to do anything else other that such? Most importantly, will Obama’s Britain look as drastically different as his America is projected to?

We can only wait.