The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

......said the man from BBC Local News having just realised that his budget has just been cut by 50% and that ITV are actually going to put more money into local news. Funny World ain't it.

Calendar has indeed come on even more with the latest revamp. It has warmth (Christa 'Slack'royd couldn't be warm if she was on fire to poor old Harry Gration) and has a generally welcoming feel that no other programme can muster.

When are you BBCoids actually going to wake up and realise that the real world doesn't consist of the values of old any more? The time when money could be poored at a piss-poor programme have gone. Look North should be shot and buried.

Katherine needs to get a real job (any job would be good - waitress at the Dog and Ferret might actually teach her about life) and realise that the local populance couldn't give a fig who reads the local weather. I would bet my superanuated pension that if I went into the local in Sheffield (insert local popular drinking hole here if living elsewhere) and asked five people who Paul Hudson was they wouldn't know and wouldn't care. Celebrities have followers, opening the local Oxfam just doesn't cut it. Paul Hudson does however have a woman/girl who has a crush on him!

Oh by the way, I noticed too that Helen Fospero was on five the other day - oh I bet she cried leaving the BBC.

How about meeting and speaking with terminally ill cancer patients who have no real hope of ever setting foot outside a hospital again? How about seeing patients with icky bandages, urinary catheters, lovely metal stitches up their legs and backs or perhaps patients who vomit prodigiously as a result of harrowing chemo/radiotherapy? Elderly and sometimes incontinent patients? Patients with bloodied faces who've just been involved in horrific skirmishes on Lincolnshire's roads and streets? I've seen the whole shebang on my ward rounds for hospital radio. Would you like to take my place?

It might be voluntary (are you a 'salary is better' snob?) and therefore unpaid but it's a hell of a lot less cushy than a desk job or pencil-pushing in admin.... presenter training is imminent too. Compared with the likes of you, Christa Ackroyd is as warm as toast in a blast furnace. Pity that the relaunch of Calendar hasn't had any impact ratings-wise. Look North is still ahead, at almost two to one.

Did anyone else see tonight's new look Look North Saturday.

There's now on screen sports headlines, just like at breakfast time. The graphics are coloured in a colour that could be described as mushy pea green.

The usual Look North sting was used except with an added mushy pea green oval with 'News & Sport' written in it.. The same oval featured on the straps with the added bonus that it span round constantly throughout the bulletin.

Harry Gration presented, meanwhile on Calendar Jason McCartney was absent instead it was John Shires

Perhaps not a subject to expand upon at any length on a television presentation forum, eh?

Did you possibly consider, in your rush to prove your public spirited attitude, that there just might be people who are here precisely to get AWAY from those sorts of thoughts?

No offence, but if I happened to be in any of those situations (god forbid), the last person I'd want at the end of my bed would be an "enthusiastic" hospital radio person asking me if I'd like an Englebert Humperdink or a Shakin Stevens track dedicated to me.

if you are well enough to potter around pilgrim radio, what's to stop you getting a job, any job, perhaps at your local asda or something.

Yes, and I come on here trying to get away from the fact I'm very hard to place in employment...... six weeks' properly paid work is all I've had since I left sixth form nine years ago. Six paltry weeks and it's not through lack of effort. I must have applied for over 100 jobs in that time, and that solitary and short-lived one is all I've got to show for it.

I don't take too kindly to acid-tongued reminders about that fact from someone who comes on here when the blue moon's shining, obviously just to have a go at me, tell me I need a slap or to get a job and spout more insulting invective and poison about Look North. the team don't deserve it, especially when ratings are as high as they are.

You make it sound like I'm the only person at fault in here.... why is it people never have a go at huddy or anyone else that has a go at me? Why won't anyone else support my side or see it from my point of view? The amount of undeserved abuse, teasing, goading, winding-up and bullying I've had on here is too much.

Am I just someone for people to kick when they're down?

You know full well and DAMN well why, only I can't sob about it like a little weak, feeble girlie in here..... because you give me an earful of nonsense back every time I raise this fatwa issue. I am fed up with that too. Cut me some slack!

Without any direct experience, you've managed to hit the nail squarely (sorry for the pun) on the head with that comment.

I'm no longer a member of hospital radio, let's just leave it at that.

Shall we change the subject now, PLEASE?

Yes, just as long as I'm given the freedom to talk about the very thing that makes it much harder to find work WITHOUT being subject to un-necessary, unauthorised and stupid fatwas, from people in silly cliques.

From my experience, most of my patients welcome me and nobody's as yet told me to go away. I've heard a lot of interesting stories from people. Some patients never receive visitors, are very lonely as a result and actually like having someone to talk to visit them. Pastoral visiting is a small but very useful part of my job, which I am happy to do.

Moon ain't shining here.

Now weren't you the one telling us how people ought to give you a job because you have some disablement? If you do line up these subjects to talk about, don't cry when it all goes wrong and we happen to latch on to your inane drivel.

I merely pointed out you need some life skills and need to remove yourself from your BBC induced cacoon. Somebody's been piqued here. If you wish to have a go at me, I can hold my own. Engage.

I just thought i'd remind people what the last relevant post was in this thread.

Some of us DO come here to read about people's views and comments on Look North or Calendar, oddly enough.