Local News

Our local ITV news is actually pretty good. Although ITV west country stretches from Gloucestershire all the way down to Cornwall we've noticed you get different programmes in Wiltshire from those in Cornwall.

Mind you the weather forecast which follows is usually rubbish!  

Or he doesn't have a BBC pension so has to carry on working to make a living. 

Though I quite like him as a presenter 

North West  Regional  news  regularly  picks  up  TV Awards  but my  gripe  would  be  with  BBC Red  Button  Services.

If  I  want  to  find  out  anything  about  Cheshire  I  find  I  need  to  check  on  Manchester,  Liverpool,  Stoke  on  Trent  &  Shropshire.

Even  then  it's  quite  often best  to  wait  for  the  Local  News  rag,  The  Chronicle  but  that  is  only  a  weekly  thing,  so  I  have  to  wait  till  Wednesday  !

We do quite well on BBC Wales but they do seem to have an awful lot of people on their books. I can count over a dozen who could turn up to be the main broadcaster. Nearly all of them though are very professional.

The few bugbears tend to be that it, like London, it tends to be centred around the capital, Cardiff, and the other is that if one the front row props happens to have cold this week then it almost becomes front line news. A bit Rugby orientated (but at least it's knowledgeable!)