Waltheof Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I live in Sheffield but Leeds has far better shops than us. It also has a better record at sensitive city renewal respecting the value of listed and older buildings in the centre. Leeds perhaps some advantage because the shops can count on the custom of the more prosperous parts of Airedale and Wharfedale, and even from shoppers from York, but sheffield has to make do with custom from the deprived areas of Sth Yorks which were hard hit by the decline of industry and the coal mining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Its not just the customers, its the way the shops in Leeds are all condensed into one area. In Sheffield we have some near Castle Market, then you go up to T.J.Hughes, Marks & Cole Brothers, then the rest are down The Moor. They are too stretched out, its just bad planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgblade Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 don't bother watching either of the leeds tv shows, got that fed up of the 3 seconds to report a major story in sheff, to switch to a live broadcast of a paperboy comemorating his 3rd week of delivering papers in leeds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaunfl Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hi- I hope you dont mind me using the forum like this- but I thought I ought to reply to your comments about our programme. Assuming the game is on we'll definitely have a report on our main show tonight at 6.30. Earlier in the week we thought we ought to run preview reports about the Sheffield derby and the Leeds-Doncaster match (I know they're in League 1 but it is the first time they've played for 50 years and they both may go up). We didnt want to show them both on the same night because not everyone is into football; so we decided to show our Leeds-Doncaster report on Thursday and our report on the bigger match - the derby- tonight. On our main programme at 6.30 last night, before we broadcast the report, we explained the Sheffield derby report would be tonight. When we showed the Leeds-Doncaster report on our shorter bulletin at 1025 we neglected to give that explanation- and we should have - I'm sorry. We did run brief clips of both Brian Laws and Bryan Robson at breakfast time this morning. Our bulletins in the morning are so short we didnt have time for much more then - our report tonight will be more detailed. I've been editor of Look North for a year now. I know a lot of people in Sheffield think we're too 'Look Leeds' - and so I've been trying to move reporters out of Leeds, and to cover more stories in South Yorkshire- especially the really big ones like the floods. All being well, we're also hoping to launch a brand new news service- just for South Yorkshire- next year. Thanks for reading this far. If you ever want to get in touch directly, you can email me at look.north@bbc.co.uk. Tim Smith, Editor, BBC Look North PS I mentioned this last time I was on the Forum; just in case you were wondering- I'm not a Leeds fan. I've lived in Yorkshire for nearly twenty years but i'm a southerner by birth - and I've been a Wimbledon fan all my life. Don't hold it against me ! Nice one, Nice but dim, thanks so much for giving us your time to report the floods down here, how the hell do clowns like you get these jobs ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TattyBear Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Look north is always about Leeds, makes me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Maggot Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 "Earlier in the week we thought we ought to run preview reports about the Sheffield derby and the Leeds-Doncaster match (I know they're in League 1 but it is the first time they've played for 50 years and they both may go up). We didnt want to show them both on the same night because not everyone is into football; so we decided to show our Leeds-Doncaster report on Thursday and our report on the bigger match - the derby- tonight." 50 years? If Rotherham hadn't played Doncaster for 50 years or Wednesday hadn't played United/Barnsley/anyone else but Leeds for 50 years would you have done the same? Feeble. The 50 years is only of relevance to a minority. Do the die hard Leeds fans think "Ooh we haven't played Donny for fifty years, what a treat!"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TattyBear Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Surely we could all gt something together and put loads of names on it saying how poo look north is and how biast it is and how negative they reflect sheffield to be etc etc.....then we can slate them publicy. Lets do it............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaklucy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 many moons ago when the then glourious wednesday had wembley as a 2nd home, we lost in a replay to arsenal in the last minute of extra time (yes i still have nightmares and think Mr Woods tipped it over bar). a camera team and reporter got onto our train home, (if you went to the replay you'll remember it peed it down) so sat on train with the worst fish n chips, wet thro and the muppet ask's "excuse me sir (to mi dad) were from look north, could you tell me how your feeling at this moment?" basically mi dad offered to insert his microphone within his a***. but this is typical of look leeds. Did they go to leeds fans asking how they felt straight after the game when they went down? but then again we did have 'arry n tranny wearing black armbands as a mark of respect. sick of 'em at look leeds even "wetwang" gets a mention on weather forcast all WE get is "it'll be wet in south yorkshire" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OntarioOwl Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Its historic, Wednesday had a fanzine called War of the monster trucks for donkeys years. commerating the fact that after the cup win in 91 the program switched to a moster truck program 10 mins later instead of running with post show interviews. That was Yorkshire TV, not BBC. I've not watched any of the "local" shows for years, being expatriated and all, but Look North did seem to try and look at Sheffield football moreso than YTV. I recall the documentaries Steel City Blues and The Pride and the Glory on there when there was f**k all on YTV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boston Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It also has a better record at sensitive city renewal respecting the value of listed and older buildings in the centre. Leeds perhaps some advantage because the shops can count on the custom of the more prosperous parts of Airedale and Wharfedale, and even from shoppers from York, but sheffield has to make do with custom from the deprived areas of Sth Yorks which were hard hit by the decline of industry and the coal mining. Quite true, but given the importance of the two cities - Did Leeds ever get bombed 'during the war'?, which destroyed much of our city centre. Also isnt Hallam one of the richest areas outside London? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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