Tag Archives: Middlesbrough
February 11, 2012 Exclusive: Cleveland Police ill-prepared for apocalypse
I don’t want to alarm anyone living in Middlesbrough any more than they already will be – having woken up and, rubbing the sleep from their eyes, remembered that they live in Middlesbrough – but far from ‘Putting People First’, Cleveland Police doesn’t have your back; in fact it would appear that they are perfectly content [...]
Tags: cleveland police, december 21st 2012, End-times, freedom of information act, freedom of information request, Journalism, mayan prophecy, Middlesbrough
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- Posted under Mockery & Satire
February 8, 2012 Me, talking
These next two tracks were exercises both in writing for broadcast and recording. I can only hope that the subjects were made up, but even so, pieces of a baby found flushed down a toilet? Really? I didn’t realise Bret Easton Ellis was writing NCTJ exams. I think these examples of my effete lisp are [...]
Tags: Journalism, Middlesbrough, Multimedia, Radio
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- Posted under Homework
December 13, 2011 Santa Claus arrested in connection with phone hacking probe
Children across the world had their world shaken today when the Leveson enquiry into phone hacking saw Father Christmas taken into custody by Northumbria Police. Exact details are not known at this time, however it is understood that the arrest took place at Santa’s Magical Christmas Grotto in The Mall Shopping Centre, Middlesbrough just before [...]
Tags: Britain, Christmas, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Phone hacking, Politics
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December 11, 2011 Three years of cuts and closures…
As I mentioned already, I intended on working my weird rant against non-recyclers into the last real work of the year – the vox pop assignment. However, the apathy of others and the growing realisation that I am just another hypocrite – three paychecks and some half decent head in a fast car away from turning [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Politics, Vox Pop
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- Posted under News & Comment
December 3, 2011 Lingerie, Whiskey and Burning Flags
Hey, am I wearing lipstick? When I’m getting fucked I want to make sure my face looks pretty. – George Jung, Blow I put the news in my brain today. It didn’t help my depression. Not one bit. I hear the cuts with which we are being punished for the avarice and incompetence of our betters [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, End-times, Journalism, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Nudity, Phone hacking, Politics, Press, Scotland
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December 1, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part Three
Question Time. BBC One, 10.35 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 Against a more newsworthy day’s backdrop of the biggest strikes in 30 years and my own Senior Lecturer – a former journalist at the News of the World – being arrested in connection with the Leveson phonehacking enquiry (later bailed until March), I have a deadline. I [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Denmark, End-times, Journalism, Leveson, Middlesbrough, Phone hacking, Politics, Press, Robots, Students, TV
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- Posted under Science & Nature
November 28, 2011 Video Killed the Radio Star
I’ve decided to put my stratospheric rise to the peak of radio broadcasting on hold for the time being. Perhaps I’ll go back to it once the NCTJ exams are out of the way or perhaps it’s not the right medium for me. There was the feeling that I was just one slip of the [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Dinosaurs, Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
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November 24, 2011 God is in the Radio
My Mother once said to me, “You can go to Australia on your own but you can’t go down the corner shop.” I find that succinct in a way no GP, shrink or bar-room confidant as yet has managed. I can’t seem to get out of this slump but the show goes on around me [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Australia, Dinosaurs, Drugs, End-times, Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
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November 21, 2011 Our Rock is an Alcoholic and We are Happy-Hour. Part Two
“In 2010 the world emitted 30.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. If you want to know how big 30.6 gigatonnes is, look at your children and imagine them dying from skin cancer and lack of water, and then stop asking stupid questions and just do your fucking recycling.” – Frankie Boyle, Work! Consume! Die! I’ve spent [...]
Tags: Denmark, End-times, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Radio, Scotland, Students
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January 26, 2012 International Students at Teesside University
Middlesbrough’s Teesside University has a student body of nearly 30,000. Of that number, more than 1,500 are international students. The ones we tend to notice are female but there is hushed talk of males. Sam Howitt and I wondered what on earth possesed them to study here, of all places, but realised quickly that such [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Students, Video, Vox Pop