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The North-South Divide

The Bilsdale TV transmitter in North Yorkshire got knocked off air yesterday when it was flooded out. Currently all its UHF services are off air, and as it's a main transmitter this means that large parts of the North-East are currently without analogue TV service.

BBC North Yorkshire are reporting this on their web page here. They say - and I quote - that "Engineers are on site at Bilsdale now but they are having to dry it all out before firing it up".

Now, if this was national or London news they'd probably write something like "Engineers are in attendance and every effort is being made to restore service as quickly as possible, but essential operational safety checks have to be made before service can be fully restored. We apologise for any inconvenience this loss of transmission has caused, and would like to assure our customers that service will be restored as soon as it is safe to do so."

This being Yorkshire, however, we get (to paraphrase) "Aye, t'team's up there with hairdryers. Don't want t'bloody thing to go up in smoke when we fire it up."