March 08, 2009
This is sad: ITV kills the Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds. The wikipedia article should tell you why - the first studios in Europe designed for colour TV, the biggest working TV studio in Europe, and a lot of very impressive programmes. The history is interesting, too - the station set up in ...
The Yorkshire Ranter
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25 years; the strike was the first political event, indeed one of the first events, I actually remember. At least I remember power cuts and TV news broadcasts with the number of weeks the miners had been out counting up. After that, I recall Chernobyl - they set up a radiation monitor in the car par...
The Yorkshire Ranter
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January 07, 2009
An inventor is helping underdeveloped nations with creations from her grandfather's potting shed....
Telegraph UK News
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December 21, 2008
"A sad tale's best for winter. I have one/ Of sprites and goblins."...
Wash Post Book World
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Michael Dirda
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"A sad tale's best for winter. I have one/Of sprites and goblins."...
washingtonpost.com - Michael Wilbon (washingtonpost.com)
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December 07, 2008
This BBC Radio 4 documentary about the British nuclear deterrent and the people who operate it is absolutely cracking. Not surprisingly, the man behind it is none other than Professor Peter Hennessy (can we call him Henn-dawg yet?). One of the things that stands out is the amount of desperate psycho...
The Yorkshire Ranter
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December 05, 2008
Much of the UK will see a combination of sunshine and showers melting some of the heavy snow which caused traffic chaos power cuts and the closure of hundreds of schools across Northern England and Scotland....
Telegraph UK News
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November 26, 2008
A lesbian soldier who won her case of sexual harassment against the Army is to receive almost £190,000 compensation....
BBC News | UK | UK Edition
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October 04, 2008
In more bad news for West Yorkshire in general and Bradford in particular hopes that the grasping egotist who thinks more of editing his wikipedia entry than catching criminals would piss off to London have been dashed. He has made a dash for the moral highground. This of course has nothing to do wi...
The Devil's Own Blog - From God's Own County
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July 08, 2008
Three directors and three films about one man who terrorized Yorkshire, England from 1974 until his capture in 1981. Peter Sutcliffe was known as the Yorkshire Ripper. British novelist David Peace wrote a four book series about the murders in his “Red Riding Quartet”. The novels have rec...
Film School Rejects
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