As we over 70s are soon to be quarantined for 4 MONTHS can I suggest that one morning a week until it happens they designate it as an over70s only shopping morning as currently the greedy selfish me-me-me-me- grab-it-all mindless shits brigade are leaving us nothing to buy! 😩
Totally, utterly, completely devastated. Just can’t believe we have lost the lovely hugely talented Dianne Oxberry.
@BBCNWT
will never be the same again. She was an outstanding broadcaster, brilliant colleague for so many years and a very good friend. Heartbroken.
Commentator on
#RealManCity
“this must be the greatest comeback in the history of the champions league”!! Er….
@ManUtd
losing 1-0 v Bayern Munich in injury time in the FINAL and win it 2-1 by full time!!!!
Controversial tweet! While I think Layton and Nikita are brilliant dancing together I am highly UNLIKELY to vote for them in
#StrictlyFinal
. The BBC needs to sort out its celeb booking policy. Layton is a professional west end dance star. Not ballroom but huge huge advantage.
What a heartbreaking & emotional day this was for all of us who attended Dianne Oxberry’s funeral.The tears flowed throughout the service as we said our final goodbyes to the colleague we all loved at
@BBCNWT
- beautiful, talented & a cherished friend. Dianne was truly special xx
My heart goes out to all my old colleagues & friends at
@BBCNWT
facing a ridiculous jobs cull in local news progs. We even have to lose one of the 2 excellent presenters
@annabelvtiffin
or
@RogerJ_01
- worse still they have to apply for the one job. So cruel and utterly insane.
If anyone is remotely interested to see how well or badly I’ve aged since I retired from
@BBCNWT
13 years ago that youngster
@RogerJ_01
has interviewed me for tonight’s 40th anniversary prog 6.30pm - 7pm. 😊
On this Friday 10 years ago with heavy emotion I retired from TV broadcasting & anchoring
@BBCNWT
for nearly 15 years. Thing is…I can’t decide whether it feels like 10 years ago or 100 years ago! But still upright, healthy & happy.I had a truly wonderful innings. 👍😊
Am informed on Twitter that today is the 44th anniversary of the launch of The Krypton Factor…7pm on this day 1977. Expected to run for 2 years max we ran for 18 years with a peak audience of 18million. 44 years ago…blimey…ordering my zimmer and a supply of Complan tomorrow!
Well done
@GranadaReports
- superb & deeply moving programme paying tribute to your presenterTony Morris. It was the most difficult & saddest programme the team there will ever have made. And for
@lucymitv
so very hard to present but she did it beautifully & with such affection
Find it hard to believe
@BBCNews
lunchtime TV bulletin failed to mention
@Saints1890
incredible World Club Championship win in Australia. For heavens sake BBC they’ve just become WORLD CHAMPIONS in the toughest challenge of all. Bu not ONE single word about it!! Really?
Just came across this “jumping for joy” pic when me,
@ranvir01
and our lovely Dianne were presenting
@BBCNWT
in happier days. Brought a tear to my eye. How we all desperately miss Dianne 😢
Annnnd….not a word about
@Saints1890
becoming World Club Champs in
@BBCNews
News at Ten….not even in their special sports section at the end!! Do we Northerners not pay our BBC License fees?
A few days ago I registered my horror at the
@bbc
decision to axe one of
@BBCNWT
presenters
@annabelvtiffin
or
@RogerJ_01
- since then 225,000 viewed the tweet, 21,500 interacted with it, nearly 2000 likes & massive support for the pair.Viewers are horrified. Pls BBC LISTEN & act
And the big football story of the afternoon is that the unique big treble of league, FA Cup and Champions League only achieved by
@ManUtd
still stands unchallenged! 😀.
Today for me the light at the end of the tunnel got a lot brighter! Happy to say I got my Covid-19 jab!. Big shout out to Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre for a very well organised and efficient service.
@AltHealthAllPCN
- the future now looks brighter 💉👍
2 weeks ago we said our last goodbyes to our dear friend and colleague at
@BBCNWT
Dianne Oxberry. Today at Manchester Cathedral we celebrate her all too short life.Celebrate we will try but heartbroken & sad we still are.We at
@BBCNWT
& the NW region so loved her.
One of the great successes of
@BBCOne
‘s superb coverage of the jubilee celebrations was Kirsty Young hosting the sofa chats in that splendid St James’ Park set. Cool, calm,relaxed,warm,in control,good interviewing & no forced loud laughing! Brilliant from start to finish. 👏👏
How time flies on this date Sept 30 9 years ago I presented my very emotional and last ever
@BBCNWT
after 15 happy years in the chair...calling an end my 50 years working in the media. Loved every single day of it 👍😊
Just my humble opinion as one who has a little experience of news presenting but I think
@sophieraworth
@BBCOne
is the best news presenter on telly. No airs or graces or silly gestures or postures or exaggerated emphasis and total clarity in her delivery. 👍
Shocked to hear of the death of
@GranadaReports
presenter and one time BBC colleague Tony Morris. My sincere & deepest sympathies to Tony’s family and the team at Granada Reports who must be feeling totally upset & shattered at this sad time.
Will watch Prince Harry interview on ITV tonight but never keen on watching an interviewee being interviewed by his friend. Will the tough questions really be asked? Would give a lot to see
@afneil
doing it! Best in business.
Have watched a lot of sport this weekend,2 cricket one dayers, 3 rugby union WC games, 2 footy Euro qualifiers but nothing compares with the game I attended on Friday night
@Saints1890
v
@LeighLeopardsRL
- brilliant, hard fought, tough, skilful thrilling. Heart stopping ❤️
Ever since that lovely young
@ManU
loving lad from Donegal wrote to Jurgen Klopp asking him to let
@LFC
lose for a bit, Liverpool have lost!! Just saying. 🙄
So sorry to hear this Ben. He was the loveliest, friendliest and wisest of colleagues when he, Bob Greaves and I were the first presenters of Granada Reports when it launched in 1973. He had a wonderful dry sense of humour too. Such sad news and my thoughts are with u & family
Some sad news. My father (and
@skeevyd
‘s), Brian Trueman, has died. 92 years of happy life. A career in television and radio that included Children's Hour, Clitheroe Kid, Scene at 6.30, Granada Reports, Brass Tacks, Screen Test…
Shocked and saddened to learn that the wife of
@markchapman
Sara has died after a long illness. My heart goes out to Chappers and his young family at this devastating and impossible time for them. ❤️
Still very much missed. Today is the 4th anniversary of the death of lovely, talented
@BBCNWT
weather presenter
@TrustDianne
(Dianne Oxberry) colleague and friend. What a loss she was to her family, friends, viewers and the BBC 😢
A picture I will treasure now for ever. Kisses from our
@BBCNWT
weather presenters Dianne and Heather at my farewell party leaving North West Tonight 2011.
Thanks
@tvlive
for this pic from many years ago..me anchoring
@BBCNWT
& the young lovely & talented
@sallynugent
presenting the sport! I was just saying to her there “one day Sally you are going to be a big star co hosting TV’s most watched breakfast show
@BBCBreakfast
“👏⭐️😊
Another sad day. It’s 2 years today since we lost our lovely
@BBCNWT
weather presenter Dianne Oxberry to was all so sudden & left all who knew her or watched her on their TVs totally devastated.& we still miss her terribly.🥲
@TrustDianne
to help others
I am thrilled to say I have a ticket for the big final at Wembley….yayyyyyy.
@Saints1890
v
@CTRLFC
next Saturday in Rugby League challenge cup final. COYS.
Sad day today saying final farewell to my absolute boyhood hero,the great Jimmy McIlroy of
@BurnleyOfficial
& Northern Ireland.Moving funeral service at Turf Moor.Brilliant footballer,lovely man,modest,shy,unassuming with great humour & a real twinkle in his eye.😊Goodbye hero 😢
Well done
@BBCBreakfast
for recognising how important winning the rugby league World Club Challenge is down in the toughest place of all Australia. Good to see 2 of
@Saints1890
greats
@pwello80
&
@TommyMak21
on the sofa this morning WITH that much coveted cup. 👍👌
It was the most difficult programme any of us involved in it has ever a team gathring in the studio straight after, tears flowed freely.We are all so heartbroken.
Still so sad about the death of my absolute boyhood hero
#JimmyMcIlroy
of
@BurnleyOfficial
- I lived in Belfast & would have crawled over miles of broken glass to catch a glimpse of him playing for N.Ireland in the great team we had.Finally met him many years later.Wonderful man
Very strong passionate performance from Mayor
@AndyBurnhamGM
on the
#Marr
programme this morning standing up for the low paid who would suffer the most without a proper support package if Tier 3 is imposed. Impressive.
Will someone PLEASE give Alan Partridge that glass of water for his dry mouth NOW cos if I see that trailer one more time (currently at 1 million 237 airings) I will hurl a brick through my TV set!! 😫
Can’t believe
@BBCOne
is running yet another news special throughout this morning & into the afternoon after devoting both channels to DoE coverage for the entire evening. It is just way, way over the top.
Every time I watch
@RogerJ_01
or
@annabelvtiffin
presenting
@BBCNWT
I imagine what mental turmoil they’re going thru knowing 1 of them is to be axed & have to apply for the 1 job & battle each other for it. Don’t get how
@BBC
can be so insensitive & cruel.Just appalling treatment
On this day a century & a half ago one of the greatest rugby league clubs in the world & reigning world club champs was born.Congratulations
@Saints1890
on your 150th anniversary & all the pleasure excitement & joy you’ve given us down the years. A great club with true values. ❤️
Deeply saddened to hear y’day former
@BBCNWT
presenter Beccy Barr had died.I’d retired when she joined but worked with her in another area.After cancer diagnosis we had long lunch, she spoke openly & fearlessly of her fate, & was just amazing. Strong talented lovely person 🥲
If u have watched &enjoyed
@BBCNWT
6.30pm weekdays I hope v much u will find time to watch tonight to say farewell to chief reporter
@mrdaveguest
who has served the programme & the region so incredibly down the years...he is one of the very best reporters anywhere & top guy 👍💔
Guess what I’m saying to him as he presents
@BBCNWT
sport. One day Dan you are going to be a big star and co host The UK’s most watched breakfast show
@BBCBreakfast
- funnily enough I said that to
@sallynugent
too a couple of years before this” !! 🤣
I gather Liz Truss is virtually certain to become next PM.Lots of votes from Tory eligible already cast.But the more I listen to her & read about her policies the more I shudder. Promises what Tories want to hear but gut feeling says disaster for all ahead!She scares me a lot 😳
This
#WalesvEngland
rugby Union game is being smothered by the constant penalties. There are so many ways you can infringe. Stop start no momentum. Can’t wait for
#RugbyLeague
to return!! So much more fluent 👍👍
Our Dianne
@BBCNWT
wd never have believed she was so loved & popular she could have filled Manchester Cathedral 5 times over today.She wd have said today was bonkers & “haven’t u all got something better to do.” & to have last laugh she sent rain to soak us all coming out! 😢😊
@BBCNewsPR
@BBCFrediani
@afneil
Pathetic by the BBC. Andrew is the best political interviewer they’ve got...anybody’s got...by a country mile. His programmes always unmissable. But you axe his excellent programmes & can’t sort out a decent deal to keep him. Words fail me. A huge huge loss.
So it’s a Labour landslide & analysis going on how Cons have collapsed. Let no one forget that so many families & extended families, mine included, will never forgive them for banning hospital visits where our loved ones were dying while they partied and boozed in Downing St!😡
Fab tribute to Stuart Flinders on
@BBCNWT
as he moves on to next chapter in his life. He was an outstanding reporter down the years & v good presenter. He coped with the big stories,the heavy ones and the light with terrific skill & great scripting. One top guy
@FlindersStuart
Sad to say
#grahamnortonshow
has become really boring. Constant American stars up their own backsides with lots of loud laughing when anyone says anything barely worth a smile. Tired show now.
Tony Wilson my old friend,
@GranadaReports
colleague & later presenter rival when I anchored
@BBCNWT
wd have been 69 today.We’ve lost nearly 12 years of this great character & what a rollercoaster they’d have been. Exciting,crazy,inspirational,bonkers & maybe our Mayor! 😊
So sad to hear that ex
@BBCBreakfast
presenter Bill Turnbull has died. Such a lovely man. He once gave me a terrific interview talking of his passion for
@Wycombe
moving up North & bringing his bees along with him.😊 Kind,gentle,warm, funny & a truly superb TV presenter.
Quite a few people have asked me today if there is anywhere they can still see the brilliant tribute programme the
@BBCNWT
team put together through tear filled eyes & with heavy hearts for the gorgeous hugely talented Dianne. U can get it here.
Went to
@Saints1890
last night for 1st time in a few weeks due to a hol in the US - with 11 players out with injury or suspension I expected heavy defeat to Superleague leaders
@WarringtonRLFC
- but we fought magnificently to impose crushing win. Proud and so impressed. COYS 👌
Still feeling totally dazzled by
@Saints1890
last night. Bearing in mind importance of the match & against fierce rivals
@WiganWarriorsRL
it was prob best performance I’ve seen blowing away Warriors with fantastic, intense, highly skilled rugby. Terrific stuff Saints. 👍👍👍
But we will continue to need your help (see link below). Here’s my February donation to the Mayor’s Charity supporting
#BedEveryNight
. Since elected, I have donated £46,750. If re-elected, I will continue to donate 15% of my salary every month. 3/3
Soooo happy.A few days ago I tweeted my anguish that the
@newryreporter
which my great grandfather James Burns founded 155 years ago was to cease publishing.Then saw
@irish_news
report of late bid being made to save it. Now hearing the deal has gone through.The paper lives on!🍾
I flew back from Philadelphia yesterday and hopped into a black taxi to head home. The driver said “hey I know your face don’t I?” Wow, I thought....not forgotten after 8 years in retirement. “You used to drive the cabs didnt you,” he pronounced!!!🤣
Perhaps
@BorisJohnson
& the 6 pathetic Conservative MPs who’ve just written to
@AndyBurnhamGM
criticising him fighting for those desperately trying to make ends meet could read this & think about what they’re doing!
Mega congratulations to
@RogerJ_01
my successor as presenter of
@BBCNWT
who won the Best Presenter award at last night’s glittering, star studded
@RTS_media
ceremony in Manchester last night. Richly deserved for a lovely humble, talented guy. 🍾
Delighted to bump into these lovely characters at last night’s
@RTS_media
awards last night in Manchester…. The fabulous
@HelenSkelton
and the excellent Gethin Jones of
@BBCMorningLive
@bluepaul71
@MissEFC1878
Wouldn’t call anything I wrote there as a swear word.... the one u might question is an adequate description of those totally selfish folk who are filling trolleys with toilet rolls pasta & sanitisers denying anyone else the chance to purchase same. Shows my absolute anger!
If
@AndyBurnhamGM
doesn’t win the Greater Manchester Mayoral vote by a landslide I will with gritted teeth watch the
#ChampionsLeagueFinal
wearing a
@ManCity
shirt !! In my view he stood up for GM brilliantly against the Govt & has done an excellent job tackling our homeless prob
Just after lunchtime today the time will become 2.22 & 22 seconds and the date will be 2/2/22. Or in full -
2 22 22 2 2 22. It’s just 2 much to take in! 😊
Truly sad to hear Gerald Sinstadt has died.When I landed dream job on Sports Report in London after completing application form when drunk he ran the sports room & was brilliant to me.Years later I produced him on GTV’s Kick Off match.Such a pro,brilliant wordsmith & lovely man🥲
How time flies. I left the presenter’s chair on
@BBCNWT
for retirement 7 years ago today.! Loved my 15 years there with such a fab, friendly, talented team....but have had a ball ever since!!😀👍
@EmmaVardyTV
Not that surprising Emma. In the days when I covered the troubles some councils closed the park swings etc on Sundays. One councillor went to extremes & removed the swing from her budgie’s cage at midnight on Saturday for 24 hours so budgie couldn’t have fun!! True. 🙄
Hard to believe it’s one year today since we lost our lovely Dianne Oxberry
@BBCNWT
to ovarian cancer.Thoughts today very much with her husband Ian, children & family. And what a wonderful job the
@TrustDianne
has done to keep her memory alive & help other suffering families.
What a perfect memorial service at Manchester Cathedral that was celebrating the life of the widely loved
@BBCNWT
weather presenter Dianne Oxberry...our Dianne. It captured her perfectly with so much emphasis on her brilliant sense of humour. How hugely she is going to be missed.
To become rugby league’s World Club Champions is absolutely huge but to win the title against Australia’s finest IN AUSTRALIA is absolutely IMMENSE. Soooooo very proud of
@Saints1890
- magnificent performance.
Totally gutted for
@ranvir01
on
#Strictly2020
- and if the dance really is judged on the dance off alone I thought she edged it.... but then I am no expert and am very very biased. But she did us all proud. What a series she has had. Well done Ranvir a true ⭐️. X
Very moving tribute at the
@RTSNW
Awards tonight in Manchester. Normally Dianne would have been sitting with us & the most glamorous woman in the room 😢
I see quite a few folk and several TV reviews thought the final episode of
#LineofDutyFinale
was bit of an anticlimax.I usually feel that with most final episodes of exciting series, but am I the only one who thought last night’s was pretty good? Gripped throughout. 😳
Well folks...SUCCESS. Supermarkets at last setting slots aside for 70 plus people only. My original tweet on the subject I’m told got over 30,000 responses & several hundred retweets. So big thank u everyone, perhaps together we played a little part in getting this to happen. 👍
So on Christmas Eve night can I wish everyone amerry Christmas. Have a fab day tomorrow while always remembering those for whom it can’t be. Peace & love to all. X
Proud to be a
@Saints1890
fan. Commiserations
@SalfordDevils
- brilliant season and fought us all the way tonight...but congrats to Saints team, brilliant coach Justin Holbrook, visionary chairman Eamonn McManus and of course THE LOYAL FANS. Job done. Champions! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have voted! Took me over 5 mins in the polling booth before I finally decided on the best of a dreadful choice in my view. Left feeling slightly ashamed. That has never remotely happened before. What a political mess we are in. ☹️
What a wonderful, uplifting, yet tear-jerking tribute to the amazing
#CaptainTom
on
@BBCBreakfast
just now. Congratulations to the team who crafted it. You did the great man and his family proud. 👏👏👏
Tear in my eye watching PA Jane Smith counting out
@BBCNWT
for the last time tonight.Heard that count so many times down my earpiece when I anchored the show & some unprintable stuff too 🤣. I worked with many PAs in my time but she was the absolute best. A huge loss to the BBC😢
Well…
@BBCNews
managed this time to squeeze a few seconds of
@Saints1890
brilliant performance to become World Champs. But here comes
@BBCNWT
to give this rare outstanding feat proper coverage….er….um….20 secs at the end!! I give up!
In the week I tweeted about the huge loss of
@TrustDianne
(Dianne Oxberry) to
@BBCNWT
her family, colleagues & friends 4 years ago look what my iPhone just popped up from my farewell party 2011.Dianne (right) & Heather Stott.😍
Hoorayyyyy. Well done
@BBCNWT
&
@richaskam
for an excellent package on
@Saints1890
brilliant World Club Challenge in Sydney. Am sure
@GranadaReports
did it justice too but haven’t seen It yet (link anyone?) and welcome home Saints - WORLD CHAMPIONS. 👏👏👏👏👏
My blood boils when I hear chief constable
@CCIanHopkins
telling us that more house parties are starting to happen & groups of people gathering to play football.WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE.Your actions could kill doctors, nurses and us. STOP IT NOW. Report it if u see it happening!
It would & should have been celebrations today for former colleague and friend,
@BBCNWT
weather presenter Dianne Oxberry who we tragically lost to ovarian cancer in January.Still hugely missed.Pic is of us on a ‘sofa tour” to meet our viewers.❤️
How brilliant was
@ranvir01
on
#Strictly2020
tonight. Mesmerising. Get your votes in. That smouldering look...how well I remember it every time I walked into the studio to co present
@BBCNWT
with her! 😏
Good luck
@AlStewartOBE
for the launch of
@GBNEWS
tonight - am sure it will be a huge success. Looking forward to seeing what’s on offer and how news stories are treated..👍👍