Trust I Hate not to know where foot-and-mouth, or even Foot and Mouth, started; as BBC Bristol were telling everyone it was in 'Brougham' for two days after it started; as somebody had put 'Bromham' (correctly) into the spell checker, but not checked whether the output had been changed to something incorrect!
IH
I Hate HTV West
You what Nick?
I was talking about a story they were running at the start of the week about foot-and-mouth (correct) was first detected in Somerset in the 60's.
When the first two cases in the West in 2001 were confirmed at Bromham, near Devizes, Wiltshire; all the BBC's TEXT services, web, Ceefax, etc, were referring to 'Brougham' for two days, until somebody finally corrected it.
IH
I Hate HTV West
no they weren't!
That's my job you are critisising there, and baring in mind I worked for five years at the local radio station in THAT COUNTY I don't take kindly to being told I don't know how to spell Bromham.
If it happened, it may have done once but I know FULL WELL it didn't happen for two days.
They ALWAYS talk over all the ending music at lunch/weekends if they can. David Garmston usually talks over the music and about 5 secs afterwards too.
Nothing ever really changes though. We had two stings in every program for about a month but that has stopped I think.
They are now putting new people on. They are REALLY bad.
I like the weatherman. he is quite fun. But, after about 15 minutes, the story gets VERY boring and pointless. Quiote a few mistakes too. Nobody ever talks about this program on this forum. sad really.
