Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
3 Nov 2025

Milking?

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Whenever something sensational happens it seems the media "milks" the story, going on for days and days,  Recently, we had what ap...
6 Aug 2024

Ukraine, Gaza and BBC News - NOT amateur radio

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The Middle East is on the brink of all-out war and the Ukraine conflict goes on. Yet on the BBC news headline pages neither is mentioned! In...
21 Mar 2024

More LF spectrum for amateur radio?

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There is a very interesting piece on John  EI7GL 's blog about the demise of BBC Radio 4 on 198kHz long wave.  Gradually, long wave AM b...
27 Nov 2023

New Zealand reverses smoking ban? - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that New Zealand is to reverse moves which (hopefully) would have phased out smoking. They have supposedly done this to fund...
13 May 2023

BBC weather - NOT amateur radio

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BBC weather rant time.  Today the BBC was saying the clouds would burn back and we would have sunshine and light cloud as they are saying ri...
12 Mar 2023

BBC email? - NOT amateur radio

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I cannot find the BBC email to whom I should send my complaint .  If you know it, please would you share it? My complaint is that nearly eve...
27 Jan 2023

Fame? - NOT amateur radio

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To my surprise, an email I wrote to the BBC regional programme "Look East" was read out on the programme last night. It was about ...
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25 Jul 2022

Myanmar executions - NOT amateur radio

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This saddens me.  The BBC reports that some opposition people in Myanmar (was Burma) have been executed. Now, I do not know the facts admitt...
18 Jul 2022

Russia and Google - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that Russia has fined Google for spreading "fake news" about the "special operation" in Ukraine. Outside...
18 Sept 2021

Internet over free-space optical - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC has an interesting piece about the use of free space optical communications to bridge the River Congo in Africa where optical fibre ...
15 Jul 2021

Matt cartoon - NOT amateur radio

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Everyday, the BBC website has the front pages of the UK's newspapers. One of these is the Daily Telegraph. I just love the Matt cartoons...
22 May 2021

Hypocrisy - NOT amateur radio

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From the outset may I say that we all are less than perfect and we all have things about ourselves we are not proud of and that we would ra...
21 May 2021

Royalty, the BBC and their "religious" correspondent - NOT amateur radio

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In the last few days the BBC has come under a lot of criticism for the underhand methods used to get the 1995 interview with Princess Diana....
24 Mar 2021

Suez Canal blocked - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that a large container ship has run aground in strong winds and blocked the Suez Canal. This is vital artery for world trade...
29 Dec 2020

Zoom - NOT amateur radio

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2020 will go down as the year of Zoom. Until earlier this year many of us had not heard of this. Now most of us are familiar with it. Many o...
7 Dec 2020

Peter Alliss - NOT amateur radio

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Many in the UK will recognise the voice of Peter Alliss, aged 89, who commentated on many golf games over many years. In the UK he was the v...
25 Oct 2020

Breaking BBC news - NOT amateur radio

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 This has appeared on the BBC news site: "Police are dealing with an "ongoing incident" on board an oil tanker situated off t...
14 Jun 2020

Polish - Czech border "incident" - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC has a piece about a strange incident that was a misunderstanding and was easily fixed. By mistake, Polish guards were guarding a Cz...
24 Feb 2020

Harvey Weinstein guilty - NOT amateur radio

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According to the BBC website, I understand that, allegedly, Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty by a jury in New York of sexual assault a...
19 Feb 2020

Sydney, Australia lightning - NOT amateur radio

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Coming in to land on a plane in the middle of the worst lightning storm must have been pretty hairy as this BBC video shows. Many years ago ...