Local residents woke up the other morning to find a one-mile stretch of road in Bradford vandalised by a mystery person armed with…a big pot of white paint. Police have already ruled out Banksy but the hunt is on for the perpetrator believed to work for a local and highly secretive sect known as Bradford Council…
Bradford - My Hometown
The City of Darkness
News that Bradford’s National Media Museum, one of the remaining jewels in it’s tattered crown, is under the threat of closure should alarm anybody that lives here. The museum has suffered from a halving of visitor numbers over the last decade from a peak of one million and is now one of a group of three commonly controlled museums under the threat of closure. However, given that the others are the National Railway Museum in York and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Bradford looks the poor relation in comparison as both rival cities have far more to attract the casual visitor.
BBC 2 Re-make of classic film “East is East” – A Critical Review
When Film Makers Come to Town
Although the BBC must appear as if it is nationally representative, committed to regional broadcasting and film making, in truth it is happy to take our licence fees up here whilst paying only tokenism to the fact that life does exist outside of London. Recent cuts in regional budgets have only highlighted this but at least we still have Harry Gration. The recent enforced moves of various parts of the “empire”, including BBC Breakfast and Radio 5Live, to the new Media City in Salford have been followed by wails from producers unable to fill the daytime sofas with enough inane “celebrities” to bore us to submission, seemingly unwilling to venture up to the grim North.
Occasionally, the BBC will commission new programmes based on gritty Northern realism; don’t they have gritty Southern realism as well or is that not as cute? Although I’ve never watched the programnme, it would appear that Eastenders is hardly set in the land of milk and honey. In fairness, it’s not just the BBC that seem able to produce utter tripe at will when attempting documentaries about Northern cities. Rather sadly though, the consistent target over and over again, remains Bradford.Cheap shots at an easy target from lazy, uninformed and prejudicial film makers so bad they often resemble a college project on a camcorder.
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One Dunk or Two?
Into the Corridors of Power
I did something the other day I swore I would never repeat after my first soul destroying experience many years ago; I went to view a local Council meeting at City Hall, the purpose being to follow the latest developments in the long running saga concerning the fate of the Odeon in Bradford. Chaired by the Leader of the Council, Cllr Green, there were six other Labour councillors in attendance (Berry, Hinchcliffe, Amir Hussain, Imran Hussain, V Slater & A Thornton) fighting over the free biscuits , whilst largely leaving the talking to Green and a number of Council employees with their respective submissions.
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Batman Lives! Ka-pow!
Where Else But Bradford?
Bradford was once again in the national headlines and this time it was all good news. Gotham City’s caped crusader, Batman, has apparently been living here, in Wyke actually, watching over us all at the same time as delivering Chinese takeaways; who said men cannot multi-task? Could Batman save the day for Bradford? Think of the bat-pole in a newly restored Odeon as Batman watches over the villainous goings in City Hall across the murky pond. Ka-pow you dopey councillors!
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