One HLRP for Leeds and the other Faux region (already done) One regional programme should save a bit.
Where does that report say anything about dropping a regional programme? It doesn't. This appears to be another excuse to suggest the Hull region is a waste of time and should be dropped.
Why is this region considered such a priority to drop? What about South East Today? Geographically that's a small region, it covers a smaller area than Southern Counties Radio. Its big attraction seems to be Brighton which South Today also has a claim on, and the rest of the region is just some commuter towns. Why not merge it with Southampton or London? Then there's the South West. Plymouth is smaller than Hull and then aside from that what have you got? Exeter, Truro, Weymouth? Hardly any bigger than Lincoln, Grimsby, Scunthorpe. I doubt Cornwall generates much more news than Lincolnshire. So you may as well merge the South West with Bristol.
Nobody's suggesting that, and rightly so, so why do we have to get numerous posts demanding the Hull region is abandoned? The other argument is that the various parts have nothing much to do with each other. But does Carlisle have much to do with Newcastle? Does Shrewsbury have much to do with Birmingham? That's the way the regions work. And living in the South Bank I do regularly go to Hull and Lincoln, I went to both last week. And there are no other more natural regions for them to go in. Sending Lincolnshire to East Anglia is a crap idea, they have less to do with Norwich than Hull.
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is a viable region, not the biggest but there's plenty to talk about. There's some of the most deprived areas of the country plus some of the most affluent. It's also particularly prone to natural disasters such as flooding. Then there's renewable energy which if it comes off, and people in the Humber (on both sides) seem hugely enthusiastic about it, then that's likely to make it a particularly newsworthy region.
Once more this thread seems to revolve around the same people demanding the Hull region is closed down based on some personal dislike of the presenter who I think does a perfectly professional job. On this page there's criticism of his radio show by someone who doesn't listen to it and was just assuming what it might contain. I have yet to hear a constructive reason for the ending of Look North Hull and the removal of Peter Levy other than they think Levy is a tit.
