Manager of the official Ling/Adair/Central TV Crossroads Fan Club & producer for the Caring for Care charity ventures. Views mine.

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2009
Happy birthday to comedian, presenter and actor Les Dennis, who turned up in Crossroads of 2003 as Physiatrist Dr Richmond. Les appeared for a week from 7th April 2003. He is probably best known as host of Family Fortunes, which was made in the same studio as Crossroads 2001-03.
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Lost idents of the 1990s, if @tvark ain't got it, someone needs rummage through all the 1990s TTTV Sport VHS releases... 😱
Things unseen online - that TTTV Sport logo beautifully seen behind Duncan Wood in 1994 had an ident (like TTTV Weather of the era which is online); started like the usual sliver TTTV animation but then changed to TTTV Sport. It was commercially released on a TTTV NUFC VHS.
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Happy 80th Birthday to Bob Warman best known to midland viewers as one of the lead anchors of ATV Today, Central News/at Six/Tonight, ITV News Central & other shows including as a narrator on Format V, host of ITV Telethon Central, The Price Is Right (Sky) & regional specials.
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Tonight at 9, we celebrate the life of Esther Rantzen, featuring excerpts from the programme she hosted on Boom - and her favourite music. Join David Lloyd - as we mark the life of one of TV's best known faces and someone who made a lasting contribution to society. See less
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The great cold food rip off from @McDonaldsUK & @ubereats_uk be warned, its very difficult to get any answers & apparently food that turns up not even warm-absolutely cold is acceptable within the policy, which suits only UberEats by delivering to more than one person at once.
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Mike G retweeted
This is economic illiteracy of a high order. After separation Scotland would still use sterling. So it would have to borrow in £s to cover its massive budget deficit and promise lenders it would pay back in £s (or they won’t lend). But after an unspecified transition it would move to a Scottish currency. But all the borrowing done during the transition would have to be paid back in sterling. If the Scottish currency plummeted v sterling (likely given the size of the deficit, lack of credit track record etc) that could become an unmanageable burden given the likely poor exchange rate. Scotland would have to borrow billions in its own currency just to convert to sterling to pay back lenders. Devaluing the Scottish currency further. What a shambles that would be. He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Swinney says an "independent" Scotland would convert to a Scots currency 🤣🤡
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As someone has said in the comments, this really devastated her. I do think though that it's even more testament to her characterisation, that before #Corrie she had only done amateur dramatics. She was brilliant as Annie.
#OnThisDay 7 October 1983 GR-ANNIE WALKER The Mirror reveals that #CoronationStreet's #DorisSpeed's real age is 84 and not 69 as she had claimed, leading to her retirement from the role of Annie Walker.
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The massive gold tinsel decs that used to run across the shops in the 80s and the Christmas area with the metal frame and the samples a danglin' from above. Sadly, other memory is the person filling the pick n mix without gloves & wiping a snot across her hand before refilling 🤮
Who remembers Woolworths? You’d go in for one thing. Come out with Pick ’n’ Mix, a CD, something you absolutely didn’t need and somehow still have change left. Proper British nostalgia.
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Who remembers Woolworths? You’d go in for one thing. Come out with Pick ’n’ Mix, a CD, something you absolutely didn’t need and somehow still have change left. Proper British nostalgia.
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Glasgow city centre is a hotbed of crime, drugs and anti-social behaviour Not a good look!
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BBC unveils presenting line-up for Strictly Come Dancing 2027. A spokesperson said: “We’ve listened carefully to audience feedback about having three presenters and are delighted to announce a fourth.”
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Let’s face it! When it comes to standing up for women and their right to single sex spaces free from creepy men - union bosses from ASLEF, RCN, Unison at al have been about as much use as a chocolate teapot!
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Catching up with Strictly Come Dancing
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SNP - Absolutely Shameful! What else can you say about the SNP's record which has kept Scotland as the 'drug deaths capital' of Europe for all these years? The SNP's policy of 'managing addiction' rather than getting people off drugs has failed dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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The Wargame launches on Sky tonight. The show puts Nicola Sturgeon and Michael Gove in charge of Britain during a simulated Russian invasion. By episode two, viewers are expected to be rooting for Russia.
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Yorkshire Television Logo (1968-1969) Remake
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John Swinney voted against a Scottish grooming gangs inquiry.
Violence against women and girls is not inevitable and it is never excusable. I am giving my strongest personal leadership to tackling this abhorrent epidemic in our society. Here are some of the steps we will take to do that. 👇
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Remembering Jack Woolgar on his birthday who played Sam 'Carney' Carne the former lock keeper who lived next door to Wilf Harvey at the Heathbury canalside.
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#OnThisDay 15 September 1979 ITV - THE PICTURE GETS BLACKER The ITV dispute has produced the longest blackout in the history of British television . . . A large slice of the population believes that life in #CoronationStreet is still going on at the moment . . .
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#OnThisDay 15 September 1979 ITV - THE PICTURE GETS BLACKER The ITV dispute has produced the longest blackout in the history of British television . . . A large slice of the population believes that life in #CoronationStreet is still going on at the moment . . .
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