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That's going to take an awful lot of slaves and log rollers to move into place.
John
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>> That's going to take an awful lot of slaves and log rollers to move into
>> place.
More slaves and more whips. Thats the answer.
Todays motto:
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
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I worked for that company too!
John
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When it was originally said the bridge needed replacing I thought it would cause chaos for a long time. Three weekends is not so bad.
I thought an earlier BBC News article on this was amusing though. After the bridge was to have been demolished last weekend, the article added the west bound exist would remain closed all week. That would be the one that uses the bridge then! How could it open before then.
I know for westbound traffic this extra week without a bridge is a pain but you can continue on to the M6 via the M56.
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I'm going to be keeping my eyes peeled for the video of the new one moving in. I'll have to watch "local" news but I'll get over it ;-)
John
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Most local stations are, well, a bit amateurish but in particular the BBC North West lot are cringeworthy. The cadaverous Gordon Burns only just seems to manage to stay awake during most of it and Dave Guest's voice irritates me. Quite fancy Ranvir mind, especially now she's had her hair done and Diane's quite fit too.
:-)
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Is that Gordon Burns of Krypton Factor fame ?
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>> Is that Gordon Burns of Krypton Factor fame ? >>
One and the same...:-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfjx
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Well Gordon has been around for a long, long time...:-)
But the programme has spawned several presenters who have gone on to greater things with the BBC at national level, including Dan Walker and Sally Nugent, whilst Stuart Flinders has fronted BBC News (24) on occasions at weekends.
Some of the others, including Diane Oxberry, also do regular local radio shifts in the Manchester area.
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I last saw Gordon fronting Look North (or whatever the evening opt out is called now) when I was holiday in the lakes...
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>>The cadaverous Gordon Burns only just seems to manage to stay awake
>> during most of it
(a) - it is local news, after all - sends me to sleep
(b) - he's nearly 70
aren't most people of that age dozing off through Look Wherever ;-)
>> and Dave Guest's voice irritates me
Careful, he lives down the road, I'll tell him. Might point out he's put on a bit of weight recently first :-)
>>Quite fancy Ranvir mind, especially
Sorry, I'm ahead of you in that queue
>>Diane's quite fit too.
If stick thin is what does it for you, I'll not stand in the way ;-)
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Rides horses Dianne. Strong legs. But Ranvir...different league granted.
:-)
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>>Diane's quite fit too.
If stick thin is what does it for you, I'll not stand in the way ;-)>>
I would not, in any way, describe Dianne Oxberry as being stick thin.....???
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I'd agree with that, and don't take that as criticism.
Maybe you can help me out with a puzzle as you're scattered all over the country. On holiday in Norfolk a few weeks back, tv reception was reported as being poor in the local paper I found in the cottage. I found that the aerial was pointing at "Look North" rather than "Look East" (I just made that up, is that right?). But "Look North" covered Lincolnshire. Now, to me, a financial refugee fromthe NE, "Look North" is Tyne Tees tv with Mike Neville, George wostisname and that little blond lass who's probably a granny by now.
So if "Look North" is Lincolnshire and thereabouts what's the one called that covers the old TTTV region these days?
John
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Spending at least one night a week on Castleford (god, what did I do wrong ?) Look North is what they call the regional news coming out of Leeds
It's all gone downhill since Stuart Hall and Keith Macklin.....
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I was advised to keep some raw meat handy when driving through Castleford. Apparently if you lob some out of the window periodically while driving through it keeps the locals at bay long enough for the lights to go green.
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I grew up in Wigan, why should i judge Castleford ?
well...
on the one hand, the lights in the town centre stay red for an awful long time....
but
though many if the inhabitants wear track suits and trainers, they don't actually look like they can run that fast
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Sausage Rolls - Greggs the Bakers, bet it has a branch and the biggest selling items are Sausage Rolls.
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I think Look North comes in three versions, Manchester, Leeds & Tyne Tees. For reasons I've never fully understood the Belmont transmitter serving Lincolnshire and even parts of Norfolk takes the Leeds BBC and Yorkshire ITV regional stuff.
Up to 1968 Leeds shared the Manchester Look North then presented by Stuart Hall. That change meant parts of SE Lancs got the Yorkshire news; my Uncle Billy in Rochdale was outraged!!
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>> I think Look North comes in three versions, Manchester, Leeds & Tyne Tees. For reasons I've never fully understood the Belmont transmitter serving Lincolnshire and even parts of Norfolk takes the Leeds BBC and Yorkshire ITV regional stuff. >>
Look North comes in two versions as you partially detail above.
However, the North West version is BBC North West Today (lunchtime) and North West Tonight (teatime)...:-)
In fairness, many, many years ago, it did used to be called Look North.
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>> Maybe you can help me out with a puzzle as you're scattered all over the
>> country.
If your antenna was pointing northish you should have gotten "east midlands today" or "look north" from the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire service at Hull.
Reception was probably rubbish becuase there was a a "lift" on causing local reception problems.
A lift is a general term for signal recepetion problems. It usually means that far off stations get "lifted" to you, far outside normal transmission areas. Sometime they clash with local transmitters on similar frequencies. A lift is very exciting to radio hams or DXers, it means you can get signals from places you could never normally get. (the lift rarely works both ways tho). Its caused by tropospheric disturbances, inversion layers in the atmosphere etc.
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>> Reception was probably rubbish becuase there was a a "lift" on causing local reception problems.
Yes thats correct, as there was a thread about this a week ago
This is a good site
tx.mb21.co.uk
, that explains all, about TV and Radio transmission a subject im personally very interested in (should i get my coat?)
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...Quite fancy Ranvir mind...
Ms Singh is, indeed, quite fit and she merits her own biog page on the Beeb's website:
www.bbc.co.uk/northwesttonight/content/articles/2006/12/30/ranvir_singh_feature.shtml
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I notice online routing systems seem to ignore the current lack of bridge at J7 of the westbound M56.... tried a few. Poor really. Includes TomTom's online portal.
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Came back to N Wales this afternoon, traffic was horrendous - came off the M61 at a Warrington turning (past gristly Risley for those that know the area) and used my BMW/Garmin sat nav to find my way around - it worked surprisingly well (as the Garmin isn't the sharpest) but got pretty busy in Stretton some Halloween party ! - eventually decided on a route involving the A49 hoping to break out at the Cheshire Welsh border, but as luck would have it a very quiet westbound M56 at junction 10. News reports suggested that the chaos continued around the M6/M56 interchange - I'm glad to have avoided it and made it back home from Harrogate to where I live in a respectable 3.45hrs - whatever happened to quiet Sunday roads eh ?
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The closure of the M56 should not have effected your journey if you came across the M62 (not M61) to the M6.... clearly there was a knock on effect. Suppose idiots trying to travel down the M6 to the M56 for Manchester without realising the M56 was closed between J6 and J8. Despite the big signs saying this was the case for weeks!
Sounds like the Garmin has traffic updates?
Another time pop in for some a cup of tea when nearby ;-) But then you'd have had to get back from mine via the closed bit of the M56!
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I very nearly bailed out Rob - but I had a dog to collect...!
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.......enough tittle-tattle about the M56, let's get back to the fragrant and delightful Ranvir Singh.
I saw her first !
Ted
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M56 closure - Zero
