TV listings today in the Times

Bill Wright wrote:
"Owain" wrote in message
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On 17 Sep, 21:25, "Bill Wright" wrote:
My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in Yorkshire.
That's not that unusual. I can imagine how disappointed you must have
been, looking forward to some aerial photography of a municipal
rubbish tip masquerading as a natural history programme on STV only to
find a popular police drama was actually broadcast.

Was the rest of the paper the 'Scottish' edition (the small news
columns on p3-5 are usually a giveaway) or did somebody do an
almightily bad copy-and-paste job somewhere?

No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all. If
they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.

No, in Surrey we get our pudding elsewhere these days !

Owain wrote:
On 18 Sep, 19:08, "Peter Crosland" wrote:
In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's
"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

Francis Claud Cockburn ..... There is a story that during his spell as
a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition
to devise the most accurate yet boring headline. Cockburn claimed the
honours with "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many Dead." However, this
is apocryphal; no copy of The Times featuring this headline has been
located. (wikipedia)

Another possibly apocryphal Times headline was "Fog in the Channel,
Continent isolated".

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:48:46 +0100, mikeos wrote:

Owain wrote:
On 18 Sep, 19:08, "Peter Crosland" wrote:
In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's
"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

Francis Claud Cockburn ..... There is a story that during his spell as
a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition
to devise the most accurate yet boring headline. Cockburn claimed the
honours with "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many Dead." However, this
is apocryphal; no copy of The Times featuring this headline has been
located. (wikipedia)

Another possibly apocryphal Times headline was "Fog in the Channel,
Continent isolated".

It might have been real although I'm not sure it was in the Times.

I did actually see something similar in the mid-1960s. There is a place
called Tadley in Hampshire on the border with Berkshire next to
Aldermaston about 7 or 8 miles north of the considerably larger town of
Basingstoke. One winter there was a period of very heavy snow. The
headline on the front page of the Tadley weekly paper mentioned the snow
and used the words "Basingstoke Cut Off". I wish I had kept a copy of
that paper.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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mikeos wrote:
Owain wrote:
On 18 Sep, 19:08, "Peter Crosland" wrote:
In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's
"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

Francis Claud Cockburn ..... There is a story that during his spell as
a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition
to devise the most accurate yet boring headline. Cockburn claimed the
honours with "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many Dead." However, this
is apocryphal; no copy of The Times featuring this headline has been
located. (wikipedia)

Another possibly apocryphal Times headline was "Fog in the Channel,
Continent isolated".

I thought that was the London Evening Standard - on one of their bill board
posters.

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Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:48:46 +0100, mikeos wrote:

Owain wrote:
On 18 Sep, 19:08, "Peter Crosland" wrote:
In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's
"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

Francis Claud Cockburn ..... There is a story that during his spell as
a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition
to devise the most accurate yet boring headline. Cockburn claimed the
honours with "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many Dead." However, this
is apocryphal; no copy of The Times featuring this headline has been
located. (wikipedia)

Another possibly apocryphal Times headline was "Fog in the Channel,
Continent isolated".

It might have been real although I'm not sure it was in the Times.

I did actually see something similar in the mid-1960s. There is a place
called Tadley in Hampshire on the border with Berkshire next to
Aldermaston about 7 or 8 miles north of the considerably larger town of
Basingstoke. One winter there was a period of very heavy snow. The
headline on the front page of the Tadley weekly paper mentioned the snow
and used the words "Basingstoke Cut Off". I wish I had kept a copy of
that paper.

and there is the island of Little Cumbrae in the Clyde where the minister
was reputed to have said prayers for "the inhabitants of the neighbouring
islands of Great Cumbrae and Great Britain".

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From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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Peter Crosland wrote:
Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

How could you tell?

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at
all. If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

It would be
Very little home counties damage in Yorkshire H bomb incident.


In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run the
following headline sometime in the 1930's

"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

I just plagiarised it.

Didn't the Times once have the headline
Sorm in the Channel: continent cut off?

Bill

"charles" wrote in message
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Another possibly apocryphal Times headline was "Fog in the Channel,
Continent isolated".

Another example of parochial thinking was when a nineteenth century lady
traveller wrote to her friend that the Alps were 'the Derby Dales of
Europe'.

Bill

"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Owain" wrote in message
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On 17 Sep, 21:25, "Bill Wright" wrote:
My Times had the listing for Scottish ITV today, and I live in
Yorkshire.

That's not that unusual. I can imagine how disappointed you must have
been, looking forward to some aerial photography of a municipal
rubbish tip masquerading as a natural history programme on STV only to
find a popular police drama was actually broadcast.

Was the rest of the paper the 'Scottish' edition (the small news
columns on p3-5 are usually a giveaway) or did somebody do an
almightily bad copy-and-paste job somewhere?

No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at all.
If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the Times.

I think it would be reported thus.
Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.
Peter Crosland


Naa... Yorkshire demolished for redevelopment opportunities,
OCP car parks interested, new London airport (north) proposed.
Congestion charge to be extended to Leeds.

No Londoners killed, but as many as three in shock undergoing counselling

Steve Terry

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
o.uk...
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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No, it was the usual London-centric ********. Nowt about up here at
all. If they dropped an H Bomb on Yorkshire it wouldn't make the
Times.


I think it would be reported thus.

Small explosion in Yorkshire. Not many dead.

It would be
Very little home counties damage in Yorkshire H bomb incident.


In fact, or not, as the case may be, The Times was alleged to have run
the following headline sometime in the 1930's

"Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead"

I just plagiarised it.

Didn't the Times once have the headline
Sorm in the Channel: continent cut off?

It's supposed to be, "Fog in Channel, Continent Isolated," (or "Cut Off"),
but the Internet is hopeless for finding the origins of quotes, (even
Internet-age quotes, as there's no chronology except on Usenet or news
(media).)

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Max Demian