BBC too late again
The BBC today decided to cover the story of Daniel Larkin's attempt to get a boxing licence. Daniel lives in Chester and, as a diabetic, feels he is being discriminated against. Aunty is a whole week late on this story, which broke in the county-wide Chester Chronicle last Friday. There's no point publishing old news, although hopefully the belated national publicity will help Daniel. Just think, it could have been covered much earlier if the meagre space allotted to Cheshire stories on the Merseyside news page hadn't been littered with the latest McCann reports (we have nothing against the McCanns, we'd like to point out, only the filling of the regional pages with their story, which would be best kept on the UK and international pages).
Elsewhere, we note that the grid-cover thefts in and around Chester have been reported on. No doubt the Chronicle has, for once, been scooped on this, but then the Chronicle is only a weekly...
posted by Unknown @ 1:04 pm
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The grid covers were on locally-owned Dee radio on the same Wednesday that the BBC story was published.
Here's another Cheshire story; a body found in Knutsford... with a Manchester URL but a Liverpool graphic! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6760183.stm
I saw the Knutsford story - the link was on the England page and when I clicked on it, I was in the Merseyside section! Bizarre...
Also had to faff around this morning trying to find the summer Honours list - as usual Cheshire recipients were scattered across Merseyside, Manchester and Staffs...
Just give us a CHESHIRE page and we'll all know what's what.
Something might be in the works. If you go to bbc.co.uk/blah or something that patently doesn't exist, you get a 404 Page Not Found error. If you go to bbc.co.uk/cheshire, you get a completely blank page. I don't know how long it's been like that, but it seems someone's doing something on that page.
There's nothing in the works as far as I know. Someone let a comment on here months ago that the BBC had a Cheshire page - yes, there's a blank page but it doesn't mean anything is going to be done with it any time soon. Scroll a back a few entries to read the letter we had from Hugh Berlyn!
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