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isn't that London?
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It is if you work for the BBC.
As are Heathrow, Gatwick, City and Luton. Even though only one of them is actually in London, and it's most certainly not in the City, it's in the Borough 'whose name we dare not mention.'  |
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when I was a lad East Midlands airport was known simply as Donnington Airport. Then someone got jealous I think and they changed it to East Midlands, then it was Derby & Leicester Airport then Derby, Leicester and Nottingham airport, then Nottingham East Midlands Airport and now back to East Midlands but Nottingham council are not happy.
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Who gets the Council Tax?
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London
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spellingandgrammarchecker
31 May 15 17:59 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. MORE FACKING SPIDERS Black Widow Spiders found in bunches of grapes in an Asda supermarket in Leamington Spa. Like the Brazilian Wandering Spiders, these Black Widow fackers are also on the march. They've gone to the Birmingham news page. I thought Leamington Spa was in Warwickshire. |
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spellingandgrammarchecker
31 May 15 17:59 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. The Brazilian Wandering Spider continues to wander. Todays news reveals a nest has been found in Nuneaton. If they get on the motorways down to London our old friend Gogoidle will move to Scotland. He's petrified of spiders, and these fackers are 6 inches across. |
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Beds Herts and Bucks news.
Eight people, including a baby girl, have been injured in a crash when a minibus ended on its roof. The accident was on the A74(M)4 miles north of Moffat. I have no idea why it's on this regional page, the A74(M) is in Dumfries and Galloway. For those as hapless at geography as the BBC chap, that's in Scotland, and Beds Herts and Bucks....are not. |
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According to BBC website ...
"All eight of the injured people were from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire." so that's probably why. |
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Doesn't say that on the BBC regional news page.
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.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-33001863
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This thread is only concerned with the BBC TELEVISION regional news pages.
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You said you had no idea why it was on that regional page. Now you do. I didn't realise you didn't actually want an answer.
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Try reading the thread from the start.
Then go Googling, to tell me why there are so many geographical errors. |
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He was simply pointing out a reason as to why it may NOT have been the geographical error that one might assume.
There was absolutely no call your rudeness. Also, please note that it is NOT compulsory to read the whole thread. Lighten up. |
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How often do you join conversations without finding out what it's about?
And todays offering £100 fine for 6 minutes excess for a car park user in Exeter, which is in Devon. It's on the Cornwall page. |
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I tend to find that I know nothing about most conversations that I join in. Things are pretty much the same even if it's my conversation!
But it provides untold amusement for lots of people...and I feel good about that. Sometimes it's not what you know. It's what you DON'T know. |
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I don't know what I don't know.
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Sex attack on 13 year old girl in underpass in Barnsley.
The BBC report says she was followed by a man aged about 30 The local rag gives a better description. . http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/sex-attack-reported-on-girl-13-in-south-yorkshire-underpass-1-7298681 The suspect is described as having a foreign accent, brown skin, around 30-years-old, 5ft 5ins, of slim build, wearing a black Adidas tracksuit with red stripes and blue gloves. |
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they do this so often - but then it is policy with so many of them working for the bbc now
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Naydam will be along later to tell me I missed it.
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I'd have a job to comment. As usual, I know nothing about it.
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The 12:43 post says it all.
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I have to confess that there may be some truth in what you say. I noticed a few minutes go there was a report of a fire at a fuel storage facility. Normally, I would just have assumed that the BBC were passing on the relevant details to their viewers. Strangely, they made no mention of the huge volumes of thick smoke which anybody could clearly see was black! Not 'East-European'...it was black!
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I have to confess that there may be some truth in what you say.
Some truth? Clear evidence that the BBC, once again, didn't give a full description of the alleged attacker, purely because he isn't white. But as usual, you trivialise it, rather than admitting that I was right, and they keep doing it. |
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Obviously, I must conduct myself in a far more serious manner when responding to your posts on these matters.
I didn't 'trivialise it', and I have never denied that what you say may be true. I HAVE pointed out that, when I sought the evidence of your concerns, the information was, in fact, clearly displayed. This, of course, is not to say that there aren't some sources of news that are less complete or accurate than others. If one specifically seeks out these omissions, then you will surely find them. You are probably right. It is pretty well guaranteed that there will be bias in all aspects of media activities whatever, and whoever, the source may be. |
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spellingandgrammarchecker
31 May 15 17:59 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. The Brazilian Wandering Spider continues to wander. Todays news reveals a nest has been found in Nuneaton. If they get on the motorways down to London our old friend Gogoidle will move to Scotland. Laugh He's petrified of spiders, and these fackers are 6 inches across. SPIDERS - UPDATED. Apparently, spiders are more important than the housing problem. Plans to build a housing estate in Radford Quarry in Plymouth are to be abandoned. All because they found a ground weaver spider that exists only in that place in the world. Conservationists said it was 'a fantastic result for wildlife.' |
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Two reports from Worthing, Sussex.
But only one got on to the regional newspage of BBC television. I think they could well be connected, so why report one, and not the other. This one did. http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/police-now-treating-durrington-attack-as-rape-1-6798646 This one didn't. . http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/worthing-town-centre-sex-attack-in-broad-daylight-1-6798682 |
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Btw
my two reports from sunny Sussex above, one case has no description of the attacker, the other case says the attacker is 'mixed race, heavily built etc.' Guess which one didn't get to the BBC television news pages... |
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On the right thread this time.
BBC man confused whether it's London or Essex??? So he did what any normal BBC minion does, he omitted it from either page. . http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/murderers-jailed-for-life-after-young-man-was-viciously-attacked-outside-east-london-community-centre-10207850.html |
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MASSIVE NEWS
A UKIP ban MEP joins far right group. This news is so big that BBC chap couldn't decide which county to put it under, and got carried away. He stuck it on the Kent page, The Surrey page, The Sussex page and the Berkshire page. |
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Zack Davies,26, will appear in court at Mold.
He followed an asian to Tesco, in Mold, and attacked him with a machete and a hammer. Mold is in Flintshire, which is in north east Wales. That's why it's on the London news page, and also the Manchester news page. 'BBC Geography boy' strikes again. |
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^^^^
Wesdag will like that one. |
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Bill Wyman is not happy.
A blue plaque is being put up in honour of Mick Jagger to commemorate the Rolling Stones, in Dartford. Bill says it was Brian Jones who founded the group. It's on the Kent news page, which is where Dartford is situated. It's also on the Gloucestershire news page.  |
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BBC failed geography boy strikes again.
And it's Bill Wyman...AGAIN.  He sold a few cars at the Goodwood Auction. Goodwood is in Sussex. So... did he go for Kent or Gloucestershire see previous post) or did he stay with Sussex None of the above He put it under Suffolk news Both start with 'SU' - perhaps he's dyslexic. |