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23 May 15
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Somebody who actually knows English geography, or is able to look it up.
Todays regional news quiz:
Have you got what it takes to be the BBC whizzkid that puts new on the correct regional pages?
All you need to do is put the news category in it's correct county or region.
Because he/she got all these wrong
1) Man arrested for fatal crash on the A46 in Nottinghamshire. (name the county)
2) Redundancy for staff at Plymouth College. (name the county)
3) 68 year old burglar from Hove jailed again (name the county)
4) Black youths denied entry to night club in Leicester. (name the county)
5) Earthquake shakes home in Kent (name the county)
6) Tesco worker threatened with knife in Tilehurst, Berkshire (name the county)
7) Ninth man charged over Hatton Garden robbery comes from Benfleet, Essex (name the county)
8)Former head teacher jailed for sexual assaults on boys in a Stowmarket school, where he taught, and lived (name the county)
9) Immigrant arrives by boat from Italy in February, and was in the Bardo Museum gun attack in Tunisia in March. Italian police have arrested him (name the county????????)
10) Unprecedented crowds at TV event in Birmingham (name the region - if B’ham isn’t a county)
11) Magna Carts to go on display in Kent (name the county)
And today's personal favourite
12) World War 2 bomb found at Wembley posed ‘risk to life’
(This is tricky as it appears on three different regional pages)
Even Tommy Toes will get at least one right.
Todays regional news quiz:
Have you got what it takes to be the BBC whizzkid that puts new on the correct regional pages?
All you need to do is put the news category in it's correct county or region.
Because he/she got all these wrong
1) Man arrested for fatal crash on the A46 in Nottinghamshire. (name the county)
2) Redundancy for staff at Plymouth College. (name the county)
3) 68 year old burglar from Hove jailed again (name the county)
4) Black youths denied entry to night club in Leicester. (name the county)
5) Earthquake shakes home in Kent (name the county)
6) Tesco worker threatened with knife in Tilehurst, Berkshire (name the county)
7) Ninth man charged over Hatton Garden robbery comes from Benfleet, Essex (name the county)
8)Former head teacher jailed for sexual assaults on boys in a Stowmarket school, where he taught, and lived (name the county)
9) Immigrant arrives by boat from Italy in February, and was in the Bardo Museum gun attack in Tunisia in March. Italian police have arrested him (name the county????????)
10) Unprecedented crowds at TV event in Birmingham (name the region - if B’ham isn’t a county)
11) Magna Carts to go on display in Kent (name the county)
And today's personal favourite
12) World War 2 bomb found at Wembley posed ‘risk to life’
(This is tricky as it appears on three different regional pages)
Even Tommy Toes will get at least one right.
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No point in me trying I'm poor on English geography.
The only place I could find on a map is Newham.  |
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I see, nobody wiling to attempt it.
I think they employ a moron just to annoy pedants like me. The solution to: 1) Man arrested for fatal crash on the A46 in Nottinghamshire. (name the county) I can see that a lot of you appear to be stumped as it clearly shows Nottinghamshire. But did it appear on the Nottingham news page? No it didn't, diquehead put it on the Lincolnshire newspage. Now, before any of you ask 'Does it really matter?' Yes,it does, this f*cking idiot may be put in control of regional traffic news one day. I may be planning a trip to Newmarket races, which is one hour from here. There's not much use putting 'A major incident has closed the A10 in both directions 10 miles north of Newmarket' on the f*cking South West Travel news page is there? FFS!! More solutions later, and you won't believe the answers to Q12.  |
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You do realise that - the person, employed by the BBC, responsible for allocating these articles will, more than likely, have been born, and brought up, in either Eastern Europe or East Africa.
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A better Quiz would have been ...
What were the Counties called before 'Local Government Re-organisation' Ah - How we miss Westmorland and Rutland. |
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A10...10 miles north of Newmarket
when did they move it Mr Geography? |
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The A10 is north of Newmarket.
I have to travel south to get there. |
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yes, but the 10 miles bit?
shirley Ely (Cambs) should be the point of reference seeing as no part of the A10 is in Suffolk. which Newmarket is. and wtf are Magna Carts? |
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I guessed the distance wrong, big deal.
. http://i61.tinypic.com/fz2k2v.jpg I'd still be a lot closer the thick c*nt at the BBC. Magna Carts - obviously meant to be the Magna Carta. Why ask a stupid question, do you work for the BBC? |
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Anyway, as nobody is playing.
2) Redundancy for staff at Plymouth College. (name the county) Most people think Plymouth is in Devon. Except for the BBC nobhead, he put it on the Cornwall page. |
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u ave to X the river
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3) 68 year old burglar from Hove jailed again (name the county)
Most people think that Hove is next to the gayers paradise of Brighton, in Sussex. The BBC half-wit put it on the Devon news page. |
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4) Black youths denied entry to night club in Leicester. (name the county)
I know what you're thinking, that the answer is Leicestershire. It is. But the BBC moron put IT on the London news page. |
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5) Earthquake shakes home in Kent (name the county)
Obviously.... it was on the Essex news page. |
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6) Tesco worker threatened with knife in Tilehurst, Berkshire (name the county)
Berkshire? Nope. Not with El Thicko, he put it on London news. |
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7) Ninth man charged over Hatton Garden robbery comes from Benfleet, Essex (name the county)
Looks easy now, doesn't it? If the Kent earthquake was in Essex news, where would the Essex news appear? Correct. On the Kent page. |
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Newham is in sussex - I think - well it doesnt matter does it really - newhaven or shoreham - its not far off is it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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8)Former head teacher jailed for sexual assaults on boys in a Stowmarket school, where he taught, and lived (name the county)
Even Fishwick knows it's in Suffolk But how close can the BBC dunce get? The answer is - not very. He put it on the Hampshire and Isle Of Wight news page. |
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9) Immigrant arrives by boat from Italy in February, and was in the Bardo Museum gun attack in Tunisia in March. Italian police have arrested him
(name the county????????) Don't ask me, ask the BBC whizzkid He put it on the Shropshire news page. |
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Yes, but it is quite close. And we have several Italian restaurants in the area!!!
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10) Unprecedented crowds at TV event in Birmingham (name the region - if B’ham isn’t a county)
Birmingham comes under the county of West Midlands. It's big, but not big enough for diquehead. He's kept it in the West Midlands, but moved it to the Coventry news page (which used to be in Warwickshire) |
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I am not having this fascist propaganda!! This moving of coventry from one area to another was designed to confuse the German bombers.
Or maybe not. So the poor person may have been confused by our own deceptions. A bit like the BBC - deceiving people. |
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spellingandgrammarchecker 23 May 15 22:25
Magna Carts - obviously meant to be the Magna Carta oh, and if your be slating bbc regional guy's geography, please have the common courtesy to be geographically accurate sibaroni just texted me and said he agrees |
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11) Magna Carta to go on display in Kent (name the county)
You'd be forgiven for thinking Surrey, but the report clearly states Kent. Do you want to opt for Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Essex or elsewhere? No? Good. He did put it on the Surrey page, but you can have odds against he knew that was where it was signed. |
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Tell sibaroni he's out of the government.
Not that his mob were actually in there doing anything. |
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Surrey is full of nazis directing bombers to coventry
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Or chester!!!
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Now for my personal favourite from today.
World War 2 bomb found at Wembley posed ‘risk to life’ (This is tricky as it appears on three different regional pages) Wembley used to be in Middlesex, but after 4 hours looking over an atlas, the BBC dunderhead couldn't find it. So he went for 3 pages hoping one would be correct. London - which is now larger than most counties as the BBC include everything from Southend to Cheltenham, and Brighton to Watford. That was choice 1 Not being sure where Middlesex actually was, he went for the triple county page of 'Beds, Herts and Bucks' - the mug. Choice 3, as most of you will try to fathom out, is in fact, unfathomable. He went a bit too far north with news of Wembley Leicestershire? Nope. Manchester? Nope. Bradford? Nope? Are you ready... Are you sure???? Okay then.............. He put it on the 'Tees' news page. WAC. And we pay his wages.  |
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23 May 15 21:11 You do realise that - the person, employed by the BBC, responsible for allocating these articles will, more than likely, have been born, and brought up, in either Eastern Europe or East Africa. I find that quite easy to believe. |
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This is so anti bbc - you are so biased. He may have been with his notting hill colleagues and had too much Claret. I think in this case we should be more empathetic.
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^ or - in spellingandgrammarchecker's case ...
- more emphatic.  |
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UPDATE
It seems we have a reader who works for Auntie Beeb. The fatal A46 car crash is now on the correct page. The 'unprecedented crowd' in Coventry, is now on the Coventry page, as well as the Birmingham page. Due to the bomb found at Wembley, viewers 'oop norf' in the Tees area, have inundated the BBC with calls all asking the same question 'Is the blast radius liable to exceed 400 miles?'  Unlike the rest of the world, the BBC regional news pages come to a virtual standstill over the weekend. It's as if almost nothing happens for 2 days, but if it does...can the BBC news hound get it on the right page? We shall see. |
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spellingandgrammarchecker 24 May 15 13:54
Unlike the rest of the world, the BBC regional news pages come to a virtual standstill over the weekend. -------------- Bank Holiday weekend .... They won't EXPECT to actually work |
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UPDATE
Norfolk News Initial report - 4 police officers injured in rave attack. An hour later - changed to 'Police hurt in rave missiles attack' 4 or more, he's not sure. The rave was near Bourne. Bourne is in Lincolnshire Not Norfolk. |
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London news
There are quite a few soccerball teams in our capital city, but the mammoth news that Sarfend United drew 1-1 with Wycombe Wanderers, and it was 7-6 after penalties is of no real interest. As neither team is in London. |
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Matt Richardson of Henley-On-Thames Oxfordshire, went to the Velodrome in Reading, Berkshire, to break an old cycling record.
As I posted yesterday. London - which is now larger than most counties as the BBC include everything from Southend to Cheltenham, and Brighton to Watford. It's on the London news page. |
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More London News
Three tombs belonging to the Read family are to be restored. The Reads are a farming family, from near Alylesbury, which is in Buckinghamshire |
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Jane Andrews, who stabbed her boyfriend to death in 2000, is being paroled from prison.
It clearly states that she hails from Cleethorpes in north east Lincolnshire. That's must be a reason why the BBC dunce put it on the Cornwall News page. But I'm f*cked if I can think of one. |