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maybe bbc whizzkid is guessing the distance between counties incorrectly
apparently, and this is from the horse's mouth, it's no big deal |
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He gets paid for it, I don't.
And what region has he updated since Saturday complete with 4 news items each. By 11-00 a.m. today, the answer - none. Just bits and pieces here and there. It must have been an exceedingly quiet weekend in the whole of the UK.  The WW2 bomb at Wembley is still concerning viewers up in the Tees area.  As posted previously, Middlesex doesn't exist any more, so it has no news page of its own, or a page shared with any other county. Dear Middlesex, dear vanished country friend, Your neighbour, London, killed you in the end. John Betjeman (1968) |
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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 Laugh 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 Shocked 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. I bet the kid thought the answer to every single one was 'Toblerone', apart from number 6 which was 'Ferris Wheels'. |
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The BBC at their finest this morning:
ROBBER ABSCONDS FROM OPEN PRISON On the run from HMP Springfield, and should 'not be approached directly' ============================================================ ROBBER ABSCONDS FROM CATEGORY B PRISON Prisoner described as 'violent', starting his prison sentence in 2008, is on the run from HMP Dovegate. ============================================================ Both violent, but only one of these has a description, the other does not. Would anybody care to guess why? |
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I'm also betting HMP Springfield is actually HMP Springhill, as my Dad was a Prison Officer there.
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Correct.
Got any chocolate? |
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I posted this elsewhere. Video in a certain paper on line site. An obviously black guy committing a nasty crime - zero description (go on say - well there was a video)
locally we had a nasty attack during burglary by several blokes - immediate posting description WHITE!! he he!!! |
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spellingandgrammarchecker 29 May 15 11:43
The BBC at their finest this morning: ROBBER ABSCONDS FROM OPEN PRISON On the run from HMP Springfield, and should 'not be approached directly' ============================================================ ROBBER ABSCONDS FROM CATEGORY B PRISON Prisoner described as 'violent', starting his prison sentence in 2008, is on the run from HMP Dovegate. ============================================================ Both violent, but only one of these has a description, the other does not. Would anybody care to guess why? No? I'll tell you then. One is an asian, the other isn't. Guess which one was described? |
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How do you know one of them is Asian? Which one was described, Open or Category B?
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The one with the description is :
'white, well built, short cropped hair and green eyes' I'd hazard a guess and say that he's not an asian. The other one, with no description, is named AS Haroon Ahmed. These days that's a British name, but I'd take a shade of odds on that he's an asian. HTH |
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he he they don't like responses like that sagc.
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I'd have to say that you are probably right. I still think its a bit chancy to assume that he's Asian. But, as you say, it would be odds-on.
Just to get a clearer insight, I tried Googling the two cases...they results confirmed his Asian ethnicity. |
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Gogle means nothing.
This is a thread about the BBC. |
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Gogle means nothing.
Neither does Google. |
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naydam's posts are so defensive and funny
I see his brother is being held for assisting his escape etcetc etc. One thing you can say with asians - they are sure committed to the family. |
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wonder who is going to pick up on the 'committed' bit ha ha!!!
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But I used Google to find the two cases mentioned, and to glean some details about them. I can't be bothered repeating the process, but I'm pretty sure that they described him as Asian.
I'm also fairly sure that the BBC was one of the sources in question. I think you probably just overlooked it because it wasn't displayed in bold type. |
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I love it when the luvvies are wrong, look for yourself.
Asian - page 1 of 2 . http://i62.tinypic.com/f2pl3n.jpg Asian - pag 2 of 2 . http://i60.tinypic.com/jr8xmp.jpg Whitey - page 1 of 2 . http://i57.tinypic.com/16a89cj.jpg Whitey - page 2 of 2 . http://i62.tinypic.com/bfqo8h.jpg |
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Nippy fackers - spiders
 A Brazilian Wandering spider has been reported found in Tamworth, which I believe to be in Staffordshire. He appears to have wandered quite a bit as the BBC whizzkid has got this on the Bristol news page. |
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A bogus nurse has been operating a Botox clinic.
It doesn't state where the clinic is, or where the nurse comes from, but the BBC whizzkid thinks she's a scouser or from nearby. It appears on the Liverpool page, the Manchester page and the Lancashire page. |
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A 70 year old man wrestled with 3 of the 15 to 18 men seen jumping from a lorry on the A5 near Dunstable.
6 have been arrested (I assume the rest scarpered) on suspicion of immigration offences. Suspicion |
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traffickers, fagin pickpocket gangs of children, sex slaves, slaves, etc
read the guardian and watch sky to find out where they are from and who is doing it - Correction, don't - coz they remain silent on it!!! They must just drop out of the sky!!! Long live the EU, Islam, Roma and eastern europe. Isn't wonderful the vibrancy these super people bring to us. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32954661
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Today, the BBC report that 'Police were attacked in a brawl' in the Leeds and West Yorkshire regional news page.
Until I saw the 'chair stacking' thread I had no idea it was a MASS brawl by ASIANS. The BBC forgot to report that part, They had no problems identifying the EDL as the culprits for 6 arrests for 'affray and being drunk' out of the 150 on the protest last week up north. BBC = Biased Blinkered C*nts |
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Naydam
But I used Google to find the two cases mentioned, and to glean some details about them. I can't be bothered repeating the process, but I'm pretty sure that they described him as Asian. I'm also fairly sure that the BBC was one of the sources in question. I think you probably just overlooked it because it wasn't displayed in bold type. Rate reply: spellingandgrammarchecker I love it when the luvvies are wrong, look for yourself. Asian - page 1 of 2 . http://i62.tinypic.com/f2pl3n.jpg Asian - pag 2 of 2 . http://i60.tinypic.com/jr8xmp.jpg Whitey - page 1 of 2 . http://i57.tinypic.com/16a89cj.jpg Whitey - page 2 of 2 . http://i62.tinypic.com/bfqo8h.jpg It would appear that a proper description of the asian may have been handy for the public. It seems that the police couldn't find him, but the Daily Mirror tracked him down to Spain. |
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All I said was that I used Google to trace the two stories and the description was as I stated. I'm also sure that one of the sites was the BBC. I said all that quite clearly. I DID check the first of those links that you posted. That was different to the ones that I saw. I don't think it makes much difference which site one uses...the news is pretty much the same, but not identical.
What may be missing from one source will, no doubt, be accented by another. It's probably impossible to be unbiased in the eyes of everybody. I don't know why you go on about it so much, it's nothing new. By the way, what is this 'luvvies' business? Was it directed at me? Is it supposed to mean something more derogatory than a slightly 'camp' actor? |
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naydam - you are part of the problem - you try to stick to the rules - they don't - it is just a path to control when they then tear up the paper the rules are written on
as a guardian writer (current) once said !!! yes a muslim !! |
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Naydam
you should read the thread before offering your Google searches. It concerns BBC television regional news pages, what they print (like descriptions of dangerous white prisoners on the run) what they leave out (like dangerous asian or black prisoners on the run) and the errors the moron makes putting news in the wrong regions. I haven't purchased a newspaper for at least this century, I get ALL my news from the BBC TV pages. Then I report errors by looking for them on the internet. Look at the OP on this thread, he has no idea what he's doing. I rely on my local news page, but it seems that nothing has happened here since Friday afternoon. Most of the regional pages are the same. What is the point of them if the lazy bastard in charge can't find the maximum required 4 items per page every day, and 10 for London and 10 for Birmingham? The bloke in charge of the traffic pages does a fairly good job of updating jams, accidents, road closures etc. |
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I can see that it is something that you feel strongly about, but nothing will be achieved by complaining to all and sundry on here.
I have to agree that his assignment of some of the reports that you mention is a bit bizarre. But a well-worded email to the right department might go a long way to bringing about improvement. I can't help feeling that there might be some sort of twisted logic here, although I've no idea what it could be!  |
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I put a post on here last week, must have been a different thread because I can't see it now, when the bloke actually described a criminal as a black or an asian (can't remember) and that I joked to Mrs SAGC that he'll get the sack for that.
Some items sit on there for up to a week. But within 3 hours it was gone. |
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It seems that the police couldn't find him, but the Daily Mirror tracked him down to Spain.
First thing today we must congratulate the Mirror newspaper, who tracked down the escaped prisoner to Spain. Which is why he has been arrested in Nottingham. I'd actually go with the BBC view of the latter on this. |
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A man has been arrested after a badly damaged car was driven for 40 miles after a crash with a lorry on the M5.
The driver, 30, was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop and dangerous driving. Arrested him while he was still driving on the M5? |
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Magna Carta to go on display in Kent
which found itself on the Surrey news page, came off screen for a while. But it's back now...as it's going on display again....in Durham. So, naturally, it's back on the Surrey news page. |
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200+ letters to go on sale.
They belonged to Reggie Kray, the renowned gangster who was born, raised and lived in east London. The letters are going under the hammer at McTears, in Glasgow. So which regional page should it go on? London or Glasgow.?.?.?.? A quandary indeed. So whizzkid put in the obvious place, It's on the Kent news page. |
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It seems that the police couldn't find him, but the Daily Mirror tracked him down to Spain.
First thing today we must congratulate the Mirror newspaper, who tracked down the escaped prisoner to Spain. Which is why he has been arrested in Nottingham. I'd actually go with the BBC view of the latter on this. (Even though it's on the Derby news page) ^^ I missed that line. |
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MORE LEICESTERSHIRE NEWS
Driver unhurt after 'spectacular' crash in his 1970s sports car at Donington Park. The car somersaulted a few times. I'd say it somersaulted more than a few times in the crash for it to appear on Leicestershire news. Donington Park is in Derbyshire. |
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spellingandgrammarchecker
02 Jun 15 16:30 200+ letters to go on sale. They belonged to Reggie Kray, the renowned gangster who was born, raised and lived in east London. The letters are going under the hammer at McTears, in Glasgow. So which regional page should it go on? London or Glasgow.?.?.?.? A quandary indeed. So whizzkid put in the obvious place, It's on the Kent news page. Laugh Perhaps there's a big 'retired Gangster' demographic in Kent? |
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Old gangsters don't retire, they simply go to prison.
Perhaps they're all in Maidstone, and read BBC news pages every day. |
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Donington Park is in Derbyshire
it's a complicated can of worms even more so with the airport next door |
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There's only one airport in the UK Burt.
Stansted, Essex. Everybody knows that.  |