Tour de Yorkshire 2020

The 2020 Tour de Yorkshire is yet another major event that have been called off due to the Covid 19 Pandemic.

Plans were well on the way and the BBC Bus knew of 3 of the 4 venues that we were going to broadcast from.

However due to the spread of the virus the entire event will not take place in 2020.

Please read our Coronavirus statement.

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Countyfilelive Castle Howard 2019

For the first time BBC Countyfile Live had too venues in 2019.   The northen venue was in the grounds of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.

BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Leeds and BBC Radio Sheffeild all came to Castle Howard to broadcast from the event.

It was at this southen event that had been held at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire since the start of the event, would move to Windsor Great Park in Berkshire for 2020.


The 2020 event at Catstle Howard has been canciled due to finance isuess (Not Covid 19),


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BBC Humberside - Capital of Culture 2017

BBC Humberside's bus at burton constable hall

2017 is a big year for Hull and everyone involved in the City.

For the whole year, the city is the UK City of Culture.

BBC Humberside wanted to refelt this right but not forget about the rest of the editorial area. (East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North-East Lincolnshire)

To that end, the former BBC Somerset bus has been reconditioned and sent north.


From January to December 2017 the new BBC Humberside bus with travel around the region.

They will be broadcasting the Phil White show (12 noon to 2.30pm) each day, Monday to Friday.
From Bridlington to Cleethorpes, Grimsby to Goole, the bus will broadcast across the patch not only making sure that the events of the City of Cutler are covered but also the areas outside the city don't feel like the BBC is missing them out.

I was drafted in to drive the bus, as the two members of BBC staff hadn't passed their driving test and also to help set up the broadcast side of the bus.


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National League Play-off 2016

Another day, another visit to Wembley.

This time it's to see who can came that 92nd and last place in the football league. 

The game on Sunday the 15th of May kicked off at 4pm between Forest Green Rovers of Gloucester and Grimsby Town of North East Lincolnshire.

As you can imagine both BBC Local radio stations (BBC Gloucestershire and BBC Humberside) had full live coverage to see if they could get another league side on there patch. 

We had all the build up from Olympic way.

As for the match itself.  Well Grimsby won that three goals to nil, going up via the play offs at the 3rd time of asking.

Well done Grimsby Town FC.

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Tour de Yorkshire 2016

The Tour de Yorkshire 2016

After the sussess of the Grand Depart of 2014, when the Tour de France started in Yorkshire, orgenisers of the tour made it an annual thing.   It can't be part of the full Tour de France each year so a new race was set up.    

THE TOUR DE YORKSHIRE.

Now into its second year the Tour de Yorkshire takes place across the whole of Yorkshire and even into Middlesbro' this year.

The three day event is coved in full by BBC Local Radio and as you would expect the BBC Bus is there to lend a helping hand to what is a logistical nightmear for the stations.

On Friady the 29th of April the Tour started in the historic market town of Beverly in the East Riding.  The Bus was in the the village of Market Weighton to watch the tour leave the East Riding.  

On Day two (Saturday the 30th of April) we got in to West Yorkshire to the start line that was in Otley.  There we watched not only the start of the mens race but the start of the very first womans race with 27 year old Lizzie Armitstead starting the race in her home town.   Armitstead was a member of the gold medal winning team pursuit squad at the 2009 Track World Championships, her second appearance at a senior world championship event.

On the last day we headed back east again to scarborough to the finishing line by the beach.  Were we saw Danish Thomas Voecker beat Ireland's and team sky's Nicolas Roche by just six seconds over the whole three days.  



Links..

BBC Humberside
BBC Leeds
BBC York


Tour de Yorkshire 

Aslo on the blog.

WW1 At home. 
York 10k
Play offs 2015
Humberside at 40

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BBC Humberside at 40

As BBC Radio Humberside turns 40 years old, Andy Comfort was told to get on is bike.

200 miles late he and two other members of staff had rasied over £10000 for the BBC's Candle Appeal.
Covering 40 miles a day the team tried to cover most af the region over the 5 days that they were out. Setting off in Grimsby on Monday morning and endding up in Hull on the Friday night.

People came from far and wide to donate and keep the team going. Well done to Andy and everyone that give to the appeal which is raseing money for a local childrens hospise in Grimsby.

An added extra to the bus was a memeber of digital switchover helpscheme staff on hand to help the swichover.


Also see..  BBC Humberside

Also on my blog... Turn Back Time

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Turn Back Time

What was the high street like before the days of Primark or Boots? The BBC 1 program Turn Back Time aims to find out. Over 100 years of high street history starting of with the Butcher, Baker and the Candlestick maker.

As the TV program revamped one high street in Somerset each week, BBC Video Nation picked 6 locations and found local storytellers and film makers to tell the history of their own high street.

The high streets range from, Stapleton Road in Bristol, which has the name of the most dangerous street in Britain, to the high street in Penzance. We also went to Eccles, Whitechaple, Beverley and Leicester.

More at
BBC Bristol
BBC Cornwall
BBC Manchester
BBC Humberside
BBC London
BBC Leicester

Also on my Blog... BBC Manchester's Love Where You Live Tour 2014
                               BBC Manchesters Austerity Christmas
                               BBC Humberside at 40

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