New Posts For Thread: BBC COVERAGE OF COUNTRYSIDE ISSUES AND ACTIVITIEShttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activitiesWestern Daily Press - June 2014. "Countryside organisations have welcomed a pledge by the BBC to improve the way it covers rural issues after a report was published criticising aspects of the view it presents of the countryside.The Countryside AllianCMATglad you like it ... was about 25 years ago but still makes me smile when I think about it.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540906985#540906985CMATglad you like it ... was about 25 years ago but still makes me smile when I think about it.Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:01:28 -0500https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540906945#540906945Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:55:38 -0500CMAT - I worked with a gal who was frightfully posh. I had misread her cv and during a relaxed conversation I asked her what she had studied at Newham College.She replied "ffs I went to Newnham, Cambridge".How we (didn't) laugh (she didn't say "ffs"https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540906253#540906253CMAT - I worked with a gal who was frightfully posh. I had misread her cv and during a relaxed conversation I asked her what she had studied at Newham College.She replied "ffs I went to Newnham, Cambridge".How we (didn't) laugh (she didn't say "ffs"Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:49:00 -0500Oi cmat!, start yer own thread if you have an axe to grind. Not wishing to underplay the issues in Newham, but the "countryside" is a bit bigger and quite frankly more important in the grand scheme (people, economic, environmental etc) of things. Gohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540880087#540880087Oi cmat!, start yer own thread if you have an axe to grind. Not wishing to underplay the issues in Newham, but the "countryside" is a bit bigger and quite frankly more important in the grand scheme (people, economic, environmental etc) of things. GoSun, 10 Aug 2014 12:10:17 -0500The BBC cover more of the countryside than they do of the wonderful multicultural London Borough of Newham.These are the items on the Newham Recorder on-line crime page. Pupils taken ill in Tuberculosis outbreak at Beckton school.Pensioner arrested ihttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879887#540879887The BBC cover more of the countryside than they do of the wonderful multicultural London Borough of Newham.These are the items on the Newham Recorder on-line crime page. Pupils taken ill in Tuberculosis outbreak at Beckton school.Pensioner arrested iSun, 10 Aug 2014 11:56:47 -0500They actually did a piece on Appleby a few years ago. It was as usual, pretty sanitised with the usual bucolic scenes of lads washing their ponies down in the river. Still, they did at least cover it.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879823#540879823They actually did a piece on Appleby a few years ago. It was as usual, pretty sanitised with the usual bucolic scenes of lads washing their ponies down in the river. Still, they did at least cover it.Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:53:46 -0500Perhaps they could go a piece on Appleby Horse Fair? Only this time focusing on the rubbish left behind by the travellers, not to mention horses with thier legs ruined after being raced on tarmac roads.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879589#540879589Perhaps they could go a piece on Appleby Horse Fair? Only this time focusing on the rubbish left behind by the travellers, not to mention horses with thier legs ruined after being raced on tarmac roads.Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:38:25 -0500and of course lots of folks fall into both groups. A decent piece on affordable rural housing would be nice, but the BBC only does "pretty pretty"https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879377#540879377and of course lots of folks fall into both groups. A decent piece on affordable rural housing would be nice, but the BBC only does "pretty pretty"Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:27:18 -0500what about a positive representation of people living in social housing, must be about the same percentage as those living in rural areas etchttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879281#540879281what about a positive representation of people living in social housing, must be about the same percentage as those living in rural areas etcSun, 10 Aug 2014 11:22:03 -0500Western Daily Press - June 2014. "Countryside organisations have welcomed a pledge by the BBC to improve the way it covers rural issues after a report was published criticising aspects of the view it presents of the countryside.The Countryside Allianhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30325425/bbc-coverage-of-countryside-issues-and-activities?post_id=540879037#540879037Western Daily Press - June 2014. "Countryside organisations have welcomed a pledge by the BBC to improve the way it covers rural issues after a report was published criticising aspects of the view it presents of the countryside.The Countryside AllianSun, 10 Aug 2014 11:06:28 -0500