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What is the local news like in your area? In Scotland, it's really funny. It's just 'the main news' but with a scottish twist. Just after you've seen the main news!
Main news: Pope dies; tsunami disaster; Blair calling election.
Scottish news: Pope who died once visited Scotland; someone in Scotland once met someone whose friend once visited the tsunami region; Scottish parliament 'still expensive' despite Blair calling election.
Is it just as bad in your region?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Haha that's exactly how Scotland Today is, slimfandango! That made me laugh. The amount of times they start with "Well, as you've just heard..." Especially at the time of the Jodi Jones trial around Dalkeith. "Well, as you've just heard, the courts have been given new evidence in the Jodi Jones trial, so we're going to go back over that but drag it out over the whole programme instead."
English regional news isn't quite so bad, but the stories are very often quite... weak. At least BBC Scotland's regional news programmes cover a whole country and so have jucier news items. It seems no matter when you tune into Calender or Look North, you will always be told that a pensioner from Rotherham has been beaten up.
Side fact: Where I live, I am not covered by one single ITV region. We can tune into two different ones, but the news items are nothing to do with anything remotely close to me. (Conversely, there is some overlapping in the UK and some places are covered by two regions!)
When I migrated to England, one of the things which pleased me no end was the realisation that their local news was equally as crepe as ours.
There is a tale from the Aberdeen Press & Journal that states that the sinking of the Titanic was reported as "North East Man Lost at Sea".
I never saw that one, so I can't guarantee its authenticity. I did, though, read the front page headline "Police Seek Man with Ferret" ...and my all time favourite, "Prisoner on the run from Craiginchess ( the local prison). Quote(ish) from Prison Governor " He was last seen by the prison gates, which he'd been sent to clean." God I do miss it, sometimes.
The point of newspapers and broadcasts is to try to tell people things that will interest them personally, and that will often mean locally. In a country where all the big papers are published nationwide, that's virtually impossible; but Britain is unusual in that respect - other countries have a more vigorous local and regional press. Let's face it, 'Titanic sinks' might seem like an interesting but unemotive story but it would have hit you much harder if someone in your street had died on it.
So I loved the Gloucester newspaper headline about Charles and Camilla - 'Tetbury man to wed'.