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Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands (September 2004)

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Pootle5
what on earth happened on Central News just then?!

Looks like they missed the cue from the national studio! Nice to hear about her leather jacket!
JO
Jon
Ben posted:
wells posted:
nothink


Oh I see you didn't think...

thats just rude frankly!!!
SD
sda|
Pootle5 posted:
what on earth happened on Central News just then?!

Looks like they missed the cue from the national studio! Nice to hear about her leather jacket!


Sometime last year, it amusingly cut to Bob who was more interested in the newspaper than giving out the headlines, stayed like it for about 20 secs!
HC
Hatton Cross
John Yates.
Guvnor of the Midlands 'And Finally' reports, sadly is no longer with us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/06_june/10/midlands.shtml
IS
Isonstine Founding member
Very sad news indeed. John was always a warm and funny reporter and had wondered what had happened to him in recent times.

John will be missed.
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Isonstine posted:
Very sad news indeed. John was always a warm and funny reporter and had wondered what had happened to him in recent times.

John will be missed.
he left just over a year ago didn’t he?

but yes, john came across as a genuinely likeable guy and a great reporter, who always looked like he was enjoying his work. sad to hear of his death.
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Westy2
Last 'Early Show' for Trafficlink's Alan Miller today, who used to do both Mollie's & Annie Othen's travel !

Check out his website for more info.Alan Miller Website

I was half asleep, as usual, but I could've sworn Mollie said this morning that a couple was having 'nookie' on top of a building close to the back entrance to the Mailbox Shocked

The BBC Brum staff were enjoying it apparantly at 4am!

Les Ross, in for Goldie on 95.6 Brekky this week, was banging on about religion, according to my boss! (Er Er Er religion, as my boss put it ! Not a fan of Leslie, my boss & his good lady!)
JO
Jon
nice to see redditch on tonights central news
GD
g.dyke
Michael Collie's site now back online . . .

Arrow g.dyke
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Westy2
For the 'Tiswas Online' boys & anybody else who's interested, it's 'The Other Side Of Peter Tomilnson at midday.

(He of Tiswas, ATV announcer, Beacon Radio, Saga & now Brum Kids Hospital fame!)
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sda|
Quote:
(Skegness - AP) SKEGNESS HIGH STREET CROWDED WITH PEOPLE ON WHEELS

Our midlands reporter had trouble getting a few bits of shopping in the world's dullest town, as he kept getting run over by old people in electric wheelchairs and townie holiday makers with lots of pushchairs, and therefore has denounced the whole of Lincolnshire once again in a fit of rage while coming down the A55, also shouting "I can't wait to be back in birmingham"


Now that I've got the off my chest, has anyone got any more juicy info on the proposed BBC midlands tv channel that was bandied about a while back?
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Dan Founding member
sda| posted:
has anyone got any more juicy info on the proposed BBC midlands tv channel that was bandied about a while back?


Ariel posted:
Around 20 video journalists, between three and five community/user generated content producers and five hub producers [will] provide local rolling news for the Hereford and Worcester, Stoke, Birmingham, Coventry and Shropshire areas from September.

The trials will last for nine months and, if successful, will be the forerunners of around 60 similar services introduced across the UK as outlined in Building Public Value.

Up to ten minute sequences of local news will be accessible at fixed points within each hour via the red button on satellite tv, and on demand via the web, broadband tv or mobile phones.

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