The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

The Calendar bus has been supplied by an outside agency.

This sort of thing Calendar used to do a lot of in the summer, and it's good to see it back with some individuality in ITV News.

Question is, where's Duncan? I haven't seen him for a number of weeks now.

Is it the same bus as used by the Central region?

I was in Skegness when the Central team where on there summer holiday about 2 years ago, and got caught in the crowd, to this day, I still don't know why they where there when Skegness is not covered by Central.

Well Boston is part of the Central region and Skegness is only mere miles away. Plus maybe they wanted to go to the coast with being landlocked?

It was Jon Hill and Tina Gelder in Bridlington yesterday and John Shires and Rachel Philips in Cleethorpes tonight. Jon Mitchell and Carolyn seem to be come along every night and with up to 2 people back in the studio, they are a bit overstaffed!

They seemed to be a bit short on items tonight, the belly-dancing feature went on a tad too long

There's a video behind the scenes of the tour, showing the ITV Calendar bus and speaking to some members of the public on ITV Local. Peter Levy obviously doesn't have a monopoly on the older viewer

Both the BBC and ITV news programmes for the East Midlands include a labelling of Skegness on their weathermaps I believe. For as long as care to remember, the odd Skeggie news story makes it onto EMT/CNE on some rare occasions, too. So, the (east) midlands desperately trying to pretend that it's not land-locked is a long-held tradition, it seems.

Clearly, the Central News (West) sub-region can't possibly claim any coastal associations, by any stretch of the imagination. Yet, the first year that the Summer Tour Bus feature appeared, one of CNW's destinations was Weston-Super-Mare! To be fair, they didn't claim that it was actually within the CNW region, just that it was one of the nearest seaside places.

Given that CN South still existed back then, and therefore CNW's patch didn't even stretch as far south as Herefordshire, it really was a bit daft sending the CNW bus to Weston.

Central New East ostensibly covers Skegness, occasionally stories from that area do crop up on CNE-- usually nicked from Calendar. Even so, many people in the main part of the Waltham catchment area, go to Skeggy on their holidays or for a day trip.

In terms of geography, the East Midlands isn't landlocked, since administrative Lincolnshire is part of the region; thus the EM has a coastline stretching from Gedney Drove End to Tetney. Ironically the region also contains Great Britain's most landlocked place-- Coton-in-the-Elms (Derbyshire).

The Central tour bus is kept at Gas St, as far as I can tell. The past few times I've been near there, the bus has been parked with the CNW satellite truck

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Using a bus was a deliberate poke in the eye to the BBC who have scrapped both the Bumbleside & Lincolnshire buses to 'save money'. Sadly the buses were the last scrap of evidence to justify the BBC closer to the people approach. All that is left now id the BBC drop out centre in Queenies Gardens & thats looking tired.

(Allegedly some bus staff got jobs at Lincoln. Certain experienced presenters have 'left')

All the BBC Local Radio buses have gone as far as I know.

I notice Jenny Hill was reporting for the national news last night, in Liverpool

But she was back on Look North this lunchtime, voicing a report on Sean Bean turning up at the Brandywell to watch Sunday's Derry City match (note: no references to "Londonderry") and the club's connection with Sheffield United - I've a hunch it was pilfered from Newsline, will check on the NI News thread if this was the case...