Local News
Well, I thought that our local news in Yorkshire was bad, but the local news further north is far, far worse.
We in Yorkshire have to endure the dreadful Harry Gration (when will he retire??) with his constant ranting about sport and his love of Bradford (from which he rightly moved to York many years ago).
But in this northern England area, they have football as the headline news, then report a bit official news, then return to football.......then finish with football.
If you live in Cumbria, you barely get a look in, as 95% of the news (such as it is) is about the North East.
Dreadful!!!
How good is your local news?
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Very good on BBC in my opinion. I think they get a decent balance of news types and don't favour any particular area.
ITV, though, covers too big an area - Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire for goodness sake - so there is little of relevance to the extreme South West counties.
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BBC East is very good in my opinion. Good mix or news stories and sport. Even splits into to for a bit for East and West. Stuart White Susie Fowler-Wyatt as main anchors sometimes together sometimes alone. Sometimes others. But great generally. We often comment when we're away on the local news. Can't get Anglia these days so can't comment. We are able to get BBC London and I TV London but prefer BBC East.
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We get BBC Look East although as we are at the extreme west of the region most of our news comes from their Cambridge studio. On the whole I think it's pretty good. We often have a half and half programme with the first half coming from Cambridge and the second from Norwich with Stuart and Susie. One advantage of having satellite TV in the motorhome is that we can watch our local news where ever we are. I do take Ian's point that some local regions are not so good. There is a women on BBC South who barks at the screen!!!!
David
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I quite like Harry Gration, and met him too many years ago to talk about, but he's 66 now, and could have retired in 2011. I suspect he loves his job. There are many others at the BBC who are working 'beyond their sell-by date'.
I personally think the team on Look North do a good job, and must admit that I've never watched Cumbria local news.
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Val
It must be a tradition on BBC local news to have older presenters who are beyond normal retirement age as Stuart White on Look East is 73 although I think he looks younger.
David
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Here in Wales we have excellent news and weather coverage on both BBC Cymru/Wales and ITV Cymru/ Wales only wish we did not have to suffer the constant references to the NHS (England), education (England) on the national (UK) news. The failures/merits of both have no significance to us post devolution, many years now but still not understood by broadcasters over Offa's Dyke.
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Our local ITV news is actually pretty good. Although ITV west country stretches from Gloucestershire all the way down to Cornwall we've noticed you get different programmes in Wiltshire from those in Cornwall.
Mind you the weather forecast which follows is usually rubbish!
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North West Regional news regularly picks up TV Awards but my gripe would be with BBC Red Button Services.
If I want to find out anything about Cheshire I find I need to check on Manchester, Liverpool, Stoke on Trent & Shropshire.
Even then it's quite often best to wait for the Local News rag, The Chronicle but that is only a weekly thing, so I have to wait till Wednesday !
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We do quite well on BBC Wales but they do seem to have an awful lot of people on their books. I can count over a dozen who could turn up to be the main broadcaster. Nearly all of them though are very professional.
The few bugbears tend to be that it, like London, it tends to be centred around the capital, Cardiff, and the other is that if one the front row props happens to have cold this week then it almost becomes front line news. A bit Rugby orientated (but at least it's knowledgeable!)
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,I think Carol needs to give them advise
