Especially on Yorkshire Day, I personally object to Radio Humberside inadvertently and repeatedly telling me I am more culturally and geographically associated with their listener area by giving me updates on road closures in Belton for instance (where is Belton anyway!) than those closer to where I am associated and where I might wish to travel regularly. Personally, I dont give a stuff about North and North East Lincolnshire, prefering to have links to the heartland of Yorkshire, and I travel to Leeds, York, Bradford, Scarboro, Sheffield much more than I ever would to some of the places I am supposed to be interested in across the river. Indeed I know that they really do not wish to be affiliated to us either, prefering their association with their own traditional areas. Afterall, in terms of what they call 'news', York is much nearer to where I live than Lincoln for instance so why would I want to know about farmers in Gainsborough? So the question is are you more culturally and geographically affliliated to Yorkshire, or North East and Northern Lincolnshire?
Yorkshire through and through, the only time I have ever been to Lincolnshire (not counting passing through) was for the Winterton friendly.
Yorkshire obviously, I also have no interest in traffic jams in places I've never heard of(until they have a traffic jam, obviously).
I don't understand the question. The poll question says Radio Humberside listener region vs Yorkshire. I (well, my parents) are within both. I guess I'll vote Yorkshire Post because that has more relevance to me than Sooty (whatever the hell that is).
We are on the banks of the Humber ........ go figure ....... and I'm sorry to have to inform you that having lived in Otley at some stage in my life, the people of that lovely town regard Hull as that place at the end of the line and not part of that cornucopia called Yorkshire. The Humber was Hull's lifeblood for many a year we had no affiliation with the Yorkshire mass, certainly not the coalfields or Arthur Scargill, or Leeds, or York, or Bradford or any other city you would like to name but we have been linked, if only by fish, to Grimsby for centuries. Hull is out on a limb, always has been and always will be, this Yorkshire Day is a rouse thought up when Trevor Pearson started banging the drum for the abolition of Humberside, which was and still is a big mistake. Now we have to beg for crumbs from Whitehall for any regeneration cash as the bulk of it is swallowed up by the very places you all seem to obviously adore. Hull, Grimsby and Scunthorpe are the forgotten areas by geographical fault lines only. Seems strange when there is so much venom directed at TWS on these forums as well.
A pal of mine reckoned they could've saved a lot of cash by building half a bridge, with a big mirror on the end of it.....
The bridge was a bribe by the Labour Government of the day. Labour had no majority in the House of Commons and a by election was called in Hull. No less than the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle, visited Hull and in a speech said something along the lines of vote for the Labour candidate and you shall have your bridge. What she didn't say of course was the strings attached to that promise, Hull voted Labour, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Bridge hit snags before it had began, geological data of the time failed to spot a stream underneath the Humber itself and when the South towers were being built it was only then that the water under the water was discovered. Hence a long delay and extra costs, massive cost, which had to be borrowed but that was not all. Road projects linked to the construction of the bridge were scrapped and the tolls were set high, crushing any chance of industry coming to the are along with the fact that Hull didn't get preferred status for investment purposes which meant less government grants and the such. Hence when the rumored car plants were looking at Hull, Honda and Toyota, they looked at the grants and road set up and found they would get better help elsewhere, such as Edwina Curries (salmonella eggs Edwina) constituency and surprise surprise Tony Blairs constituency.
It has indeed and I still insist that was a bad mistake, we would have had a better chance for government grants outside of the Yorkshire area.
I'd rather Hull/East Yorkshire get 75% coverage, and have to put up with 25% coverage of yokels south of the river - than the alternative of getting around 10% coverage whilst listening to the 'slightly more interesting than Grimsby' rest of Yorkshire.
There are many in these parts who shop in Leeds and York and go to the coast at Brid and Scarborough and feel far more of an affinity with those places than they do with Grimsby or Cleethorpes, where they never go. In fact, I don't know anyone else who thinks like you, which is obviously reflected in this poll. Hearing traffic updates on places you never go to is bloody annoying, regardless of your politics.
i accidentally knocked my alarm radio on to radio lincolnshire one morning and have never been arsed to change it back, it plays some decent tunes early in a morning, better then the boring git who drones on and on over on radio humberside, i realise thats not the point of this poll but felt the need to share
Of course OLM there are no tolls to pay to Meadowhall, J32, or any other shopping mall you care to name down the M62.
And indeed Yorkshire has won the day and thus we shall be Yorkshire but try convincing those in West and North Yorkshire of your convictions, it should raise a laugh or two.
It costs £1.50 to cross the bridge and you're suggesting people don't pay it, because they're rather spend £10 on petrol to get to Meadowhall? I'm not sure that's the soundest theory I've ever heard.
