Curmudgeonly old buggers

Adrian Edmondson called Yorkshire people curmudgeonly old buggers in an interview for us. At first we were flattered until we looked it up:

curmudgeonly - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

Well, I must say! Are you brusque and crusty?

Please leave your comments here and we'll certainly be passing them back to Mr Edmondson in no uncertain terms. But then, maybe you agree with him.

See the full interview here

Easter Snow

The snow on Easter Day was a welcome surprise for photographers in the region. I was impressed by this shot taken by Lou Milner at Roundhay Park in Leeds. The delicate texture of the snow on the trees, the sense of distance and scale helped by lone figure. Magnificent.



Andy Brook of Wakefield said, "I took these photos of Robins in our garden on Easter Sunday. With the snow it looks more like Christmas than Easter! " I think this could be your 2008 Christmas card. See more by clicking here

Otley's Red Kite

ITV Local Yorkshire is in a great part of the world to capture images of wildlife. This Red Kite was filmed in Otley. Keep the pictures coming in and don't forget to post them to Your News where I have started the Yorkshire Wildlife group

Some small changes to our channels

End of another day in the ITV Local office and we're going to make a few more changes...

Local Life will include the following

1/ Campaigns: Have you got a local campaign you want to promote
2/ Faith: a reflection of a broad range of faith communities
3/ Memories: history archive and so on
4/ I Love Yorkshire: local scenesm walks and so on

What's on will include the following

1/ Cinema,
2/ Theatre & Arts: looking for some artists to feature,
3/ Days Out,
4/ Events

Films will include the following

1/ Factual,
2/ Fiction,
3/ Today & Tomorrow: our internet soap,
4/ Film Festivals

These changes will come along before the end of the month. Please let us know if you have any comments or ideas. Mark

ITV Local Yorks, looking good

Many thanks to everyone who sent us footage and stories last week following the earth quake. I was impressed by the lady's video of her woken from sleep. I think this was by far the best representation of our actual experience, and was the only video I've seen that included clear sound of the earthquake - a better range of viewer accounts than the BBC, I thought.

The ITV Local team has been very busy this last few days re-launching the service to make it even better - quicker, easier to navigate, widescreen and a number of other features. This week the Leeds team is going into regular meetings to come up with ideas about how we can restructure some of the areas on the site. I personally would like to include a 'arts' and a 'faith' sections. We'll also be thinking about how we can do more in 'campaigns', and providing quick news updates for emerging and quickly developing stories is on our priority list.

Cantact me if you have any feedback or ideas.

Finally, the star prize for reporting the earthquake goes to this piece filed to ITV Local from Jimbo Studios minutes after the quake struck.




Mark (Channel Manager)

Life on the front line

From the The Green Howards, this is an unusual insight into the life of the regiment based in Afghanistan