Bootle more important than Chester

Well, it's interesting to see that Aunty has decided to report on the £280 million Northgate redevelopment project in Chester. This has been a front-page discussion in the Cheshire media for several years now. It's a major story that has been dogged by heaps of controversy on an almost-weekly basis. But only now the funding is in place and officially announced has the BBC realised it can't really ignore it any longer...

And even more interestingly, while the report mentions new council offices on Gorse Stacks it doesn't mention the 4-year controversy over the building - known locally as the Glass Slug - which no one in Chester wants, bar the elected councillors who railroaded it through. Even Prince Charles has spoken out against the Slug, but Aunty remains deaf.

We also note that Bootle station, a minor outpost on the MerseyRail network in Liverpool, gets a report on its £4.25 million facelift. Yet Chester Station - the only one we have apart from Bache, which doesn't really count - is about to undergo its own massive refurbishment (more info here).This apparently is not deemed worthy of coverage by the Beeb.

Never mind, at least we have a wiki now - if you really want to know what's cooking in Cheshire, you'd better look there. Because the BBC sure isn't being fair to Cheshire licence payers...