On 23rd October, workers at offices on Christian Road, Preston, Braconash Road, Leyland, Whitefield Meadow, Bamber Bridge, Freckleton Road, Kirkham and the Chorley East Business Centre took part in the second day of strike action on Friday.
Location:
- Preston Royal Mail Center
- Christian Road Delivery Office
- Braconash Road, Leyland
- Whitefield Meadow, Bamber Bridge
- Freckleton Road, Kirkham
- The Chorley East Business Centre
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Reasons for the choice of this news:
From this piece of hot news, it is not difficult to find that the national postal strike is expanding, and its impact is gradually growing nationwide.Moreover, in order to give the readers more of a WYSIWYG feel, this news might be a right case to incorporate and illustrate how the postal strike expanded compared with the first day across Preston just through straightforward creation of Google Maps.
Related links:
- Guardian: Postal strike day two - as it happened (A news blog post skillfully converged multimedia including: images, audio, infographs, etc into one story)
- Guardian: Postal workers across the country speak out WHY they are on strike (video)
A tangled meeting which rendered the decision on that matter of moving Preston's National Football Museum to Manchester Urbis Museum has been suspended at the 11th hour. It was postponed late Thursday afternoon after it turned out that the 14 trustees required more information of both bids to weigh and evaluate this complex and implicated issue, and get a more complete picture for the whole thing.
Location: National Football Museum, Preston & Urbis Museum, Manchester
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Reasons for the choice of this news:
The potential significant movement of Preston’s National Football Museum, which definitely evoke most Prestonians’ strong opposition.
The news content implied the fate of National Football Museum involved between two cities-Preston and Manchester, which, after all, is an appropriate case of making dynamic content. So, the aim of showing the direction in which National Football Museum might go can be easily achieved by Google Maps.
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One of Preston’s suburbs, Broadgate area, is ‘turning to be’ a free car park for commuters who tend to get away from rush hour in the city centre, according to the residents. A retired Preston Bus driver, of Burleigh Road, Broadgate living in this area claim he often cannot park near his home because the streets are crammed with city workers.
Location: Burleigh Road, Broadgate, Preston
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Reasons for the choice of this news:
People living in Broadgate area whose claim really revealed the ubiquitous phenomenon in Preston. Worse still, the city council couldn’t have conducted a scheme for this issue without further investigation corporated with people living there, and the situation is getting worse.
On the other hand, due to the strong “where” element within this news, it is easy to mark up the Broadgate area in Preston, especially for the full view on Google Maps.
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1/7 of the healthy trees in Winckley Square are going to be cut down for "design reasons", increasing light, changing footpaths and access, and improving surveillance of the historic square, which is regarded as part of a £3m revamp plan, Preston City Council's planning committee is about to vote on the rest part of this scheme later this year.
Location: Winckley Square, Preston
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Reasons for the choice of this news:
‘Square's trees face the axe in revamp’ arouse readers’ controversial comments on the LEP website towards city council committee’s “design reasons” for chopping down healthy trees in Winckley Square.
Thereby, why don’t we just have a look at the truly state of virescence on the historic Winckley Square through visual map presentation? Does it really go against the city design?
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- This post was written by Zhong Min. You can contact me at MZhong1@uclan.ac.uk
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