Chris Vickers

1 month ago | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — The peak of severe weather season is here and the WTOL 11 Weather Team has issued a Weather Impact ALERT DAY for the risk of strong to severe storms that will be possible in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan late Thursday evening into Friday morning.

1 month ago | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

After a long career in education Sylvia Edwards, aged 80, is still at the coalface tutoring a young man with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to achieve the required grades in maths and English that will enable him to make his way in a meaningful career. She is also an inveterate writer still active after forty years with an impressive catalogue of educational, parental guidance, fiction and non-fiction titles to her credit.

1 month ago | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

L S Lowry’s painting Going to the Match captures the thrill and expectation of the contest ahead, how the beautiful game transcends everyday life providing ninety minutes of excitement and escape from real life. Imagine then the heightened emotions of Bob Farrell and his friend, ‘Wally’, aged just nine on being taken to their first ever top flight game by Wally’s dad.

Nov 15, 2024 | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — The WTOL 11 Weather team has issued an ALERT DAY for next Thursday, Nov. 21 for a powerful late autumn storm system that is expected to bring gusty winds, rain, plunging temperatures and possibly the first snowflakes of the season. It will be very mild early next week. Rain chances will arrive Tuesday and into Wednesday ahead of this system. Temperatures will plunge Thursday with the arrival of a powerful cold front and strong gusty winds that may reach 40 mph or greater.

Oct 28, 2024 | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

Our Salford reporter Chris Vickers shares his childhood memories of fishing with his dad. Some sixty years ago I would accompany my dad fishing at a lake in Pilsworth, near Heywood. He’d park the car, we’d retrieve our fishing baskets and rod holdalls from the boot, walk across a farmer’s field and then, to my chagrin, walk along a broken topped wall-with lake on one side and irrigation ditch on the other, and I couldn’t then swim!-until he deemed it a ‘likely’ spot tocatch some fish.