O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[upthemaggies]

21 year old British female with no underlying health issues dies after contracting COVID-19.
Hopefully an isolated case, but just goes to show nobody is 100% certain not to become seriously ill with this thing.

I'm often seeing the whole of "The Midlands" being lunped together as the 2nd hot spot behind London, but Nottingham with 16 cases per 100,000 people is half that of Wolverhampton on 32. Sheffield is at 23 per 100k. The county of Notts is at 10. Manchester, surprisingly is only 8. So the outlook for us based on those figures isn't great but some other cities will be worse.

[jackal2]

I'm often seeing the whole of "The Midlands" being lunped together as the 2nd hot spot behind London, but Nottingham with 16 cases per 100,000 people is half that of Wolverhampton on 32. Sheffield is at 23 per 100k. The county of Notts is at 10. Manchester, surprisingly is only 8. So the outlook for us based on those figures isn't great but some other cities will be worse.

I remember from my childhood the days of BBC "Midlands" Today with Alan Towers and Kay Alexander, when virtually every news item seemed to have happened within a few miles of Birmingham and Nottingham virtually didn't exist. If it didn't take place in Solihull it didn't matter. I thought I was a Brummie for about 10 years!

[navypie]

I remember from my childhood the days of BBC "Midlands" Today with Alan Towers and Kay Alexander, when virtually every news item seemed to have happened within a few miles of Birmingham and Nottingham virtually didn't exist. If it didn't take place in Solihull it didn't matter. I thought I was a Brummie for about 10 years!

I remember the sports news consisted of a little bit of this, a little bit of that.....then Gary Newbon would say " and now for Aston Villa".

[ncfcog]

I remember the sports news consisted of a little bit of this, a little bit of that.....then Gary Newbon would say " and now for Aston Villa".

Just had a flashback, mind you it wasn’t that bad when they were non stop showing that Andy Gray league cup final winning goal for Wolves.

[upthemaggies]

I remember the sports news consisted of a little bit of this, a little bit of that.....then Gary Newbon would say " and now for Aston Villa".

That was ATV Today, not the BBC's "Midlands Today", exactly the same Birmingham bias but less serious with the John Swallow and Chris Tarrant reports (you'd never see people with hair as long as that on BBC news).
BBC "Midlands Today" did introduce an East Midlands opt out in the early 80s from a tiny studio in Wilson House on Derby Road, but I think the Nottingham transmitter was still relaying from Sutton Coldfield at the time so you would have only seen it if your aerial was pointing at Waltham.

The older people here might remember when BBC Midlands local news & weather was lumped in with East Anglia, with the TV regions based on the same large areas as "Home Service" radio.

[navypie]

That was ATV Today, not the BBC's "Midlands Today", exactly the same Birmingham bias but less serious with the John Swallow and Chris Tarrant reports (you'd never see people with hair as long as that on BBC news).
BBC "Midlands Today" did introduce an East Midlands opt out in the early 80s from a tiny studio in Wilson House on Derby Road, but I think the Nottingham transmitter was still relaying from Sutton Coldfield at the time so you would have only seen it if your aerial was pointing at Waltham.

The older people here might remember when BBC Midlands local news & weather was lumped in with East Anglia, with the TV regions based on the same large areas as "Home Service" radio.

Oh yeah, ATV. Swap the T and V around , you get....Aston Villa Television.

[upthemaggies]

Oh yeah, ATV. Swap the T and V around , you get....Aston Villa Television.

Their original studio was on Aston Road, less than a mile from Villa Park. Location rather than personal would account for the bias, Newbon was a Leicester City fan, Trevor East (the sports editor) was a Derby County supporter, Nick Owen was Luton Town and the regular pundit from 1980 was Jimmy Greaves (Spurs/Chelsea). A real pity we didn't get our own East Midlands local news programme a few years earlier as we'd then have a lot more footage from the promotion season to the top flight and the two seasons in which we stayed up. It began in the October of the season we got relegated.

[Elite_Pie]

Their original studio was on Aston Road, less than a mile from Villa Park. Location rather than personal would account for the bias, Newbon was a Leicester City fan, Trevor East (the sports editor) was a Derby County supporter, Nick Owen was Luton Town and the regular pundit from 1980 was Jimmy Greaves (Spurs/Chelsea). A real pity we didn't get our own East Midlands local news programme a few years earlier as we'd then have a lot more footage from the promotion season to the top flight and the two seasons in which we stayed up. It began in the October of the season we got relegated.

UTM, you're the expert on these things, so do you know if there's any footage online anywhere to see the Hugh Johns commentary on Star Soccer for the game we won at the Sh!tty Ground with the last minute winner from Sir Les? My memory tells me that he said something along the lines of "and here's Bradd with the winner" before he actually headed it. I swear we all knew what was coming and actually jumped with him! Even if my memory is wrong, I would love to see anything connected to that moment.

[navypie]

Their original studio was on Aston Road, less than a mile from Villa Park. Location rather than personal would account for the bias, Newbon was a Leicester City fan, Trevor East (the sports editor) was a Derby County supporter, Nick Owen was Luton Town and the regular pundit from 1980 was Jimmy Greaves (Spurs/Chelsea). A real pity we didn't get our own East Midlands local news programme a few years earlier as we'd then have a lot more footage from the promotion season to the top flight and the two seasons in which we stayed up. It began in the October of the season we got relegated.

Well, you learn something new everyday. I would have put money on Newbon being a Villa fan.