D'ye ken John Peel?
I :: D'ye ken John Peel wid his cwote sae grey? / D'ye ken John Peel at the breck o' day? / D'ye ken John Peel gayin' far, far away / Wi his hoons and his horn in a mwornin?
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Thursday 7th May 2015 :: BBC Election '15
David Dimbleby: Welcome to the BBC's election centre. In four minutes time the polls will close across the United Kingdom in what must count as one of the most fascinating and unpredictable ever. All of the results, whether they are from the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the English councils or the devolved authorities in Cornwall, Cumbria and Yorkshire, will be brought to you as they happen. Jeremy Vine and the delights of his virtual world are here to explain it, as are our outside broadcast teams across the country.
On the sofa we have Nick Robinson, who will interrogate the key players for reaction as the night progresses.
Outside Broadcasting House we have Victoria Derbyshire and a giant map of Britain to give a perspective on the political battlegrounds that we have heard so much about over recent weeks, and joining me here on the top table are Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University and Peter Kellner from the Institute of Policy Studies to provide us with the in depth analysis as the results flow in.
So, we better get started...
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Some say that the Cumbria crisis began with the fuel protests of September 2000. Some say it was with the death of 23 year old Rachel Branthwaite, in labour on the winding A595 road between Millom and the nearest maternity unit at Barrow-in-Furness after her husbands car ran out of petrol with no means of contacting the emergency services.
Whilst the death of Rachel Branthwaite was an undoubted tragedy, and raised questions in the House of Commons on mobile phone infrastructure and access to services in isolated rural areas, it was a very different animal that put Cumbria into the public eye and began the resurgence of a regional identity unique in England.
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The first case of the disease to be detected was at the Harrison and Hetherington auction mart in Kirkby Stephen on 15th February 2001 on sheep from a farm in Northumberland. The source was eventually traced to untreated pig swill on a farm near Heddon-on-the Wall, but by then it was too late. By the end of the month over 250 cases of Foot and Mouth disease had been reported in the United Kingdom, with Cumbria the location of an overwhelming majority.
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Nick Brown was vexed. Why couldn't Jack have still been in charge? It was his bloody patch after all. The farming and food industries thought that things were out of control. The veterinary profession was starting to lose confidence. So was Ann. So was Tony.
Hague had been on bloody good form at PMQs. You'd expect that from someone who represented one of the worst hit areas. He'd run rings around Tony, calling for the postponement of any plans for a May election. The last thing that was needed was a sodding Tory revival off the back of it.
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In February 2001 there were very few people that could tell you what a Cumbrian flag looked like, but by the close of March it had suddenly gained an element of worldwide recognition. The announcement by MAFF of a contiguous cull policy on 20th March, ordering the slaughter of all sheep within three kilometres of known cases, sent shockwaves through the Lakeland farming community. It was the following day, the 21st, when Joss Tyson, an elderly hill farmer from Caldbeck, hoisted the blue, white and green flag outside his farmhouse, before barricading himself inside to await the arrival of the men from MAFF. The bleakness of the northern fells might not have had the splendour of Wordsworth's Grasmere, but what the Uldale stand-off did have was a sense of pride and identity that many thought had been forgotten.
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For the sound o' the horn caw'd me fra my bed...
I :: D'ye ken John Peel wid his cwote sae grey? / D'ye ken John Peel at the breck o' day? / D'ye ken John Peel gayin' far, far away / Wi his hoons and his horn in a mwornin?
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Thursday 7th May 2015 :: BBC Election '15
David Dimbleby: Welcome to the BBC's election centre. In four minutes time the polls will close across the United Kingdom in what must count as one of the most fascinating and unpredictable ever. All of the results, whether they are from the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the English councils or the devolved authorities in Cornwall, Cumbria and Yorkshire, will be brought to you as they happen. Jeremy Vine and the delights of his virtual world are here to explain it, as are our outside broadcast teams across the country.
On the sofa we have Nick Robinson, who will interrogate the key players for reaction as the night progresses.
Outside Broadcasting House we have Victoria Derbyshire and a giant map of Britain to give a perspective on the political battlegrounds that we have heard so much about over recent weeks, and joining me here on the top table are Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University and Peter Kellner from the Institute of Policy Studies to provide us with the in depth analysis as the results flow in.
So, we better get started...
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Some say that the Cumbria crisis began with the fuel protests of September 2000. Some say it was with the death of 23 year old Rachel Branthwaite, in labour on the winding A595 road between Millom and the nearest maternity unit at Barrow-in-Furness after her husbands car ran out of petrol with no means of contacting the emergency services.
Whilst the death of Rachel Branthwaite was an undoubted tragedy, and raised questions in the House of Commons on mobile phone infrastructure and access to services in isolated rural areas, it was a very different animal that put Cumbria into the public eye and began the resurgence of a regional identity unique in England.
-----
The first case of the disease to be detected was at the Harrison and Hetherington auction mart in Kirkby Stephen on 15th February 2001 on sheep from a farm in Northumberland. The source was eventually traced to untreated pig swill on a farm near Heddon-on-the Wall, but by then it was too late. By the end of the month over 250 cases of Foot and Mouth disease had been reported in the United Kingdom, with Cumbria the location of an overwhelming majority.
-----
Nick Brown was vexed. Why couldn't Jack have still been in charge? It was his bloody patch after all. The farming and food industries thought that things were out of control. The veterinary profession was starting to lose confidence. So was Ann. So was Tony.
Hague had been on bloody good form at PMQs. You'd expect that from someone who represented one of the worst hit areas. He'd run rings around Tony, calling for the postponement of any plans for a May election. The last thing that was needed was a sodding Tory revival off the back of it.
-----
In February 2001 there were very few people that could tell you what a Cumbrian flag looked like, but by the close of March it had suddenly gained an element of worldwide recognition. The announcement by MAFF of a contiguous cull policy on 20th March, ordering the slaughter of all sheep within three kilometres of known cases, sent shockwaves through the Lakeland farming community. It was the following day, the 21st, when Joss Tyson, an elderly hill farmer from Caldbeck, hoisted the blue, white and green flag outside his farmhouse, before barricading himself inside to await the arrival of the men from MAFF. The bleakness of the northern fells might not have had the splendour of Wordsworth's Grasmere, but what the Uldale stand-off did have was a sense of pride and identity that many thought had been forgotten.
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For the sound o' the horn caw'd me fra my bed...
