What was that like?

But not because I was hunting him down.

This was a different r- reason.

Um, I, I was part of...

The, the, most of Greater Manchester was looking for him.

The, the, the whole of the nation was looking for him at the time, because the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police decided to make him public enemy number one, and the, and the publicize that we're looking for him, after he'd killed Mark and David Short.

Uh, and so there was a lot of police work going on with his family and protection of other people that he'd threatened to kill.

... did you, did you think to yourself, "Fuck, this is different"?

what you're hearing does that meet what you're wanting to achieve?

Oh, absolutely.

I think the first thing that's got to be said is a big thank you to the officers.

I've dropped this on them.

I hold my hands up.

I walked into the office and said, listen, what do you reckon about a cultural week? Can we put one on? For various reasons, it got put back and it got put back and then it got put back into August.

but forgetting that Sonic Boom's just round the corner, so it is actually one of the busiest times of the year for the officers in this building.

And of course it's also, I'm not going to say it's convenient, that's probably the wrong word, but it's also fallen at the same weekend as the Prophet's birthday walk as well, which is probably excellent timing for what you wanted to achieve, bearing in mind that the Islamic calendar is the lunar calendar and things.

I'm hoping.

There's something that I want to come out of my mouth, but I don't want it.

It's not nine o'clock yet.

I was going to say flats, but that would be the wrong thing to say.

Hopefully, and I hope, and you always have to have that hope, that it will become some kind of regional hub.

I mean, because regardless of whatever happens under LGR, and by the way, I'm not the greatest fan of it in all the world, but with it coming in...

People are going to have to have work locations, bases, so hopefully it'll still be there and it'll be protected as an asset.

I

Yeah?

Uh, w- it sort of come to, uh, through conversations we had, uh, the beginning of the year, whether it'd be a good idea to run a cultural week.

Uh, and there was a lot of appetite for it, especially in the current climate that we're living in across the country.

Uh, and I think- It was thought by all those sat round the table that we wanted to send a message out that, that Burton is a multicultural town.

Yeah.

Uh, I got introduced to people within the community.

I got introduced to the mosque.

And I've gotta say, what a privilege it is to represent Shobnal.