Tag: North East England

Music and Cultural Links between Northumbria, Scotland and Norway. And the ETIAS implications

28th July 2025 Dear Readers This Website covers Regional TV in northern NE England and the Scottish Border area, the deficiencies relating its local and wider Regional TV News-coverage (and indeed National news-coverage) with regards to the large area extending from the River Tyne all the way up to North Berwick and westwards to the … Continue reading Music and Cultural Links between Northumbria, Scotland and Norway. And the ETIAS implications →

A Winter Trip to The Frozen North

18th March 2025 Dear Readers This is a website discussing the appropriateness, or otherwise, of Regional TV for folk living in the northern half of North East of England, specifically Northumberland/ North of Tyne and across into the Scottish Borders. This is a huge area that is relatively poorly-covered, especially northwards of Tyneside. However, it … Continue reading A Winter Trip to The Frozen North →

The new European ETIAS Travel Authorisation Scheme and the Impenetrable Fortress Wall this will put in the North Sea between Northumberland and Norway.

THE NEW VISA-WAIVER SYSTEM FOR THE SCHENGEN AREA WILL LEAD TO A REAL FORTRESS WALL BETWEEN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND/ SCOTLAND AND NORWAY. THIS IS A TOPIC FOR A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND THAT IS NOT BEEN MENTIONED- AND IT SHOULD BE! 21st September 2024 Dear Readers In recent months I have covered the … Continue reading The new European ETIAS Travel Authorisation Scheme and the Impenetrable Fortress Wall this will put in the North Sea between Northumberland and Norway. →

The Beautiful Northumberland Coast

11th September 2024 Dear Readers Viewers of Regional TV who live North of the River Tyne, seldom get their local area, let alone anything that may be happening points northwards or eastwards, covered adequately. This includes, of course, the wonderful and breathraking beauty of the Northumberland (and Scottish Borders) countryside and Coast. However, this Website, … Continue reading The Beautiful Northumberland Coast →

THE HARD BORDER IN THE NORTH SEA THAT MAY GET EVEN HARDER THAT NORTHUMBRIAN BROADCASTERS WON’T MENTION

6th June 2024 Updated 19th October 2024 Dear Readers This Website campaigns for geographic-appropriate news and for the recognition of wider Regional connections appropriate to the north-easternmost communities in England. The cross-border links (and the International boundaries affecting these) that are the most relevant for communities along the Northumberland coast are quite different from those … Continue reading THE HARD BORDER IN THE NORTH SEA THAT MAY GET EVEN HARDER THAT NORTHUMBRIAN BROADCASTERS WON’T MENTION →

Some pictures of Norway and Northumberland

26th January 2024 (This article was published in Norwegian on 20th January 2024. It is published here, in English, for the benefit of Northumbrian readers) Dear Readers One of the geographical links between Northumberland and Norway is freezing weather in winter. Being further north, Norway gets much colder, snowier weather in winter- but this is … Continue reading Some pictures of Norway and Northumberland →

OVER ONE HUNDRED BERWICKERS SHOULD SWITCH TO BBC1 REPORTING SCOTLAND TO PUT REAL PRESSURE ON BOYCOTT THE NON- LOCAL  NORTH EAST ENGLAND REGIONAL TV

24th August 2023 Dear Readers People who have looked at this website Look North Must Look North and read the articles will realise that this is a website about Regional TV in the North East of England, and specifically about how relevant it is to viewers in more remote parts of North East England- specifically … Continue reading OVER ONE HUNDRED BERWICKERS SHOULD SWITCH TO BBC1 REPORTING SCOTLAND TO PUT REAL PRESSURE ON BOYCOTT THE NON- LOCAL  NORTH EAST ENGLAND REGIONAL TV →

Does Regional TV across North East England serve it’s Viewers well?

12th June 2023 Dear Readers This Website is dedicated to ensuring that viewers of Regional TV who live North of the Tyne and in some of the rural areas of North East England such as the North Pennines (which extends well into the west of the English North East) get better local all-round local and … Continue reading Does Regional TV across North East England serve it’s Viewers well? →

Some Real Northern News About The Frozen North To Enthuse Northumbrian Viewers of BBC1 Look North

17th December 2022 Dear Readers We have been experiencing some of our coldest December weather for over a decade across much of northernmost England. In Scotland it has, of course, been even colder with a temperature of -17ËšC recorded at Braemar in the Grampians this last week. Even so, parts of Northumberland have had temperatures … Continue reading Some Real Northern News About The Frozen North To Enthuse Northumbrian Viewers of BBC1 Look North →

BBC Cuts Portend an Uncertain Future for Regional TV in North East England

3rd November 2022 Dear Readers Recent developments, as the BBC considers how to save money in the face of rising costs and the TV Licence fee being frozen until 2027, means that Regional TV in North East England faces a more uncertain future than it has done until now. Were BBC1 Look North (NE/ Cumbria) … Continue reading BBC Cuts Portend an Uncertain Future for Regional TV in North East England →

Regional News for North East England must be funded better. Northumberland and North Yorkshire continue to suffer little Local News- coverage.

8th May 2022 Dear Readers Regional Television, as serves viewers at the rural northern and southern peripheries of North East England, is scarcely local or geographic-appropriate for viewers in those areas. In northern Northumberland, in particular, where areas local to communities are only going be in Northumberland, the eastern Scottish Borders, and East Lothian nearer … Continue reading Regional News for North East England must be funded better. Northumberland and North Yorkshire continue to suffer little Local News- coverage. →

Regional TV in North East England by 2050. A Worst Case Scenario

21st August 2021 This is a Website that campaigns for better and more geographic- appropriate Regional Television for rural Northumberland. However, there is a real chance that what viewers in northern parts of North East England, indeed all of North East England and including North Yorkshire will end up with an even worse and less … Continue reading Regional TV in North East England by 2050. A Worst Case Scenario →

Good- quality timely Regional News for rural Northumberland and North Yorkshire is actually a vital Public Service.

Dear Readers North Northumbrian viewers of Regional Television would be best- served by a Regional and Local News- service that covers Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, with some overlap coverage south to cover Tyneside, Wearside, and County Durham, some overlap west to cover Carlisle and North Cumbria and overlap northwards to cover the East and … Continue reading Good- quality timely Regional News for rural Northumberland and North Yorkshire is actually a vital Public Service. →

Viewers in rural Western County Durham and northern Yorkshire Dales also get little local news- coverage in Regional TV bulletins

4th July 2021 Dear Readers I live in the extreme north-east of Cumbria near the remote village of Nenthead in the North Pennines: The North Pennines and surrounding rural areas covers a really large area and for the purposes of Regional Television News- coverage. It is bounded by the Tyne gap and A69 to the … Continue reading Viewers in rural Western County Durham and northern Yorkshire Dales also get little local news- coverage in Regional TV bulletins →

North Northumbrians Would Benefit from Collaboration between BBC1 Look North and ITV1 Tyne Tees

The Coast at Alnmouth, Northumberland. Rural Northumberland would benefit from collaboration between ITV1 Tyne Tees and BBC1 Look North (NE and Cumbria) so that rural areas like much of Northumberland get better local news-coverage. (Photo courtesy of bobmcp @ Pixabay ) May 2021 Dear Readers One of the problems that viewers in rural Northumberland- and … Continue reading North Northumbrians Would Benefit from Collaboration between BBC1 Look North and ITV1 Tyne Tees →

Geographically- appropriate Regional Television News in Northumberland

9th March 2021 Dear Readers Recently, there has been more coverage of Northumberland on BBC Look North (North East/ Cumbria). On this evening's Look North there was coverage of the proposed dualling of the A1 through Northumberland up to the Scottish Border and the re-opening of Belford station in northern Northumberland as part of a … Continue reading Geographically- appropriate Regional Television News in Northumberland →

Rural Northumberland receives hardly any coverage whatsoever either on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees. ITV Border (Scotland) could come to the rescue.

There was a news report on broadband being rolled out in mid-Northumberland on ITV Tyne Tees this evening (https://t.co/Wc9uFj1M0H?amp=1). It was the first news- item from anywhere significantly North of Tyne for several days. It is very clear that viewers of Regional Television who live in Northumberland more than twenty miles north and north-west of … Continue reading Rural Northumberland receives hardly any coverage whatsoever either on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees. ITV Border (Scotland) could come to the rescue. →

No News about North, West and Mid Northumberland during the last week on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees.

View of the small town of Kelso in the Scottish Borders, taken from the air. This is somewhere that is very unlikely ever to feature on BBC Look North (NE/ Cumbria) or ITV Tyne Tees unless the good people of Northumberland complain about the lack of coverage of places that are still local to them … Continue reading No News about North, West and Mid Northumberland during the last week on BBC Look North or ITV Tyne Tees. →

Virtually nothing specific on Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

Dear Readers BBC Look North (covering the North East and northern Cumbria) featured a news- item about health officials in the Scottish Borders expressing concern about rising Coronavirus cases in neighbouring Northumberland: It is perhaps the only significant reference to rural Northumberland this week. The Regional News virtually never gets north of Tyneside and (when … Continue reading Virtually nothing specific on Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. →

15th September 2020: A New Site to focus on Regional Television coverage for the northern North East of England

Dear Readers I already have a website that draws attention to the deficiencies in Regional Television for viewers of BBC North West Tonight and ITV Granada Reports who live in South Cumbria and northern Lancashire who do not get coverage of the northern half of North West England (i.e. Cumbria). This can be found at … Continue reading 15th September 2020: A New Site to focus on Regional Television coverage for the northern North East of England →