I WAS interested to read about Tony Blair's plan to create "super nurses", giving some payrises to stay on the wards.

But what about the rest of our sisters, working long hours for little thanks and less pay.

I know how they feel, I wish Magic FM bosses would create a post of Super DJ to compensate me for having to get out of bed so early.

But seriously, all nurses are super so Labour should expend more energy on working out a reward system for all of them and less on publicity stunts.

RUPERT Murdoch buying Man Utd is the latest chapter in the book of greed which the big clubs are busy writing on football.

Fans should be used to such boardroom wheezes after the weekly kit redesigns, et cetera. Murdoch will use Man Utd to launch pay-per-view television - on Sky Sports.

And the ordinary fan is expected to pay. Well don't!

Stick with your team but stop buying the replica jerseys, mugs, lampshades and David Beckham gnomes.

Don't fall for the rubbish about merchandise revenue being necessary to attract the "top players". Owners prefer balance sheets to team sheets. When cash-heavy United needed Gabriel Batistuta, the board wouldn't stump up.

Football's a simple game - try to keep it that way!

I SAW that story in last week's World about the little boy who helped save an old lady's life.

These days it's so easy to be cynical about modern youth and their behaviour.

So it's good to be reminded that young people are not the monsters that the media sometimes make them out to be.

I'M jumping for joy. Just when there was a massive hole in my shopping life, along comes the humunguous new Trafford Centre to fill it.

Does the world really need another outsized out-of-town shopping complex? Smaller towns in the North West are already struggling to keep their commercial centres alive.

Aside from this, there's all the extra pollution created by the cars needed to ferry an estimated 30 million customers to the new complex.

Do yourselves and your towns a favour. Shop in Runcorn and Widnes and keep the money and jobs in your own area.

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