Paul Ridyard
www.thehulmetune.co.uk

ZION ARTS NEW WEBSITE LAUNCH - New Edit

This is a new edit of the video, which is 1 of 2 I’m posting. It means the next one will be of ZYAC, Zion Young Actors Company (without swearing in it). Launched on 14 March 2008, Zion Arts Centre’s new website looks impressive and allows interactive users to blog and get involved.

This video is showing soon on Zion Arts new website & YouTube. Zion Arts Centre website was launched with a fountain of chocolate and a few happy guests. Many thanks to Caroline Boyd for her kind permission to film the event.

Many thanks to
Manchester Digital Development Agency MDDA
for lending me the camera.

What’s the new website called? You’ll just have to watch.

Zion Website Launch!

I’ve just had a couple of text messages to my ‘3′ mobile phone saying:

FreeMsg: We have you listed as a In-active user, Please text ‘Live’ back to us on ‘81456‘ or your service will be suspended.

Notice the poor English “.. a In-active..” and “… user, Please..” a capital letter after a comma. In the from bar, they put your service provider like ‘3′. And because this is in your contacts as default, it’s easy to presume it’s from your mobile phone service provider. IT IS NOT.

Replying to this text will cost £3.50 each text, it is a premium rate text service. They will send a second message:

You are now Live! details have been forwarded to your email account, thankyou once again. Full T & C apply, please see your email for detials.

Again, very poor English grammar and poor spelling.

Then they send you another like the first saying that the user,

..must respond only to ‘81456‘ with the text ‘Live’ failure to do so..

So, in effect you are sending a second premium rate text to 81456. Now they have charged £7.00 to your mobile phone account bill.

If you have been a victim of this scam, you need to contact your phone’s service provider immediately. If you do get one then ask your provider for advice.

MANCHESTER 2015 VIDEO REPORT pt 1

I was invited by Manchester Partnerships to go down and report on the Manchester 2015 event on Saturday March 15th. This is the first part of my report and in this I talk to Sir Richard Leese, Head of Manchester City Council (MCC), and Anne Morgan from the Planning Strategy Team from MCC.

Manchester 2015 - 2008 pt1

Part 2 coming soon… where I chat to some of the public, meet more of the organisations and see a guy take a run and jump. You might just get a glimpse of Darren Campbell signing autographs.

While some people scratch their heads and wonder, “Can Manchester get any worse?”. One local family event coming soon says - YOU can make it better.