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This popped up on the BBC site and might be of interest to chit-chattererers from the cesspit of Yorkshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47542301
The author moved to Bradford at the age of two, when his dad bought a corner shop there. When they arrived, they discovered they were the first Asians on the estate.
On the first day of business, Dhand says, more than half the customers cancelled their newspaper deliveries and an elderly local dropped dead of a heart attack in the shop.
"What you don't want to happen at that point is for my elderly grandmother to come down the stairs, light some incense and start praying and warding away the evil spirits because a dead body's in the shop - because now we're the voodoo witch doctors that are killing white people. It was just a total catastrophe."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47542301
The author moved to Bradford at the age of two, when his dad bought a corner shop there. When they arrived, they discovered they were the first Asians on the estate.
On the first day of business, Dhand says, more than half the customers cancelled their newspaper deliveries and an elderly local dropped dead of a heart attack in the shop.
"What you don't want to happen at that point is for my elderly grandmother to come down the stairs, light some incense and start praying and warding away the evil spirits because a dead body's in the shop - because now we're the voodoo witch doctors that are killing white people. It was just a total catastrophe."
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DCI Harry Virdee fights crime in Bradford.
https://www.aadhand.com/
https://www.aadhand.com/
Local BBC have devoted all this week to 'We Are Bradford'. Harry (inte)Gration loves the place, but happens to live a safe distance away in North Yorks.
When I put that line in about the cesspit of Yorkshire, it was because I felt angry that the city had just been forgotten," he says. "It had been left. You know, we've knocked it flat, we've cut all of the services - youth services, council services - and we've just left it.
"And nobody cared, and nobody did anything about it. So I wrote the book really bitter. Whoever allowed that to happen allowed Bradford to descend from a position of greatness, which is what it was, into what it became, which was abandoned.
Greatness? It was **** before it was flattened, was a **** while it was flattened and it's a **** now.
"And nobody cared, and nobody did anything about it. So I wrote the book really bitter. Whoever allowed that to happen allowed Bradford to descend from a position of greatness, which is what it was, into what it became, which was abandoned.
Greatness? It was **** before it was flattened, was a **** while it was flattened and it's a **** now.
Have you visited any exotic shores on your sabbatical, Rob?
Rob_The_Bantam 15 Mar 19 01:28 Joined: 04 Dec 06 | Topic/replies: 5,989 | Blogger: Rob_The_Bantam's blog
When I put that line in about the cesspit of Yorkshire, it was because I felt angry that the city had just been forgotten," he says. "It had been left. You know, we've knocked it flat, we've cut all of the services - youth services, council services - and we've just left it.
"And nobody cared, and nobody did anything about it. So I wrote the book really bitter. Whoever allowed that to happen allowed Bradford to descend from a position of greatness, which is what it was, into what it became, which was abandoned.
Greatness? It was **** before it was flattened, was a **** while it was flattened and it's a **** now.
Bradford was a great place in the 70s, maybe stretching to the 80s and before.
You obviously don't remember that far back.
When I put that line in about the cesspit of Yorkshire, it was because I felt angry that the city had just been forgotten," he says. "It had been left. You know, we've knocked it flat, we've cut all of the services - youth services, council services - and we've just left it.
"And nobody cared, and nobody did anything about it. So I wrote the book really bitter. Whoever allowed that to happen allowed Bradford to descend from a position of greatness, which is what it was, into what it became, which was abandoned.
Greatness? It was **** before it was flattened, was a **** while it was flattened and it's a **** now.
Bradford was a great place in the 70s, maybe stretching to the 80s and before.
You obviously don't remember that far back.
I was born in the mid 80s. It's been a complete hovel for as long as I can remember.
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