There was actually a happy outcome to the missing boy story - Robert Clarke returned home on 11 December. He had got on a bus in Tideswell then caught a train to London, and had read the story of his disappearance in a newspaper.
Oh for the days when ITV regional channels were local and spoke to you like a good friend. I always thought it was a mistake for ITV to converge and become a corporate and anonymous broadcaster in order to compete with satellite/cable TV. I really feel that the old ITV network format would work again with the recognisable in-vision announcers inviting viewers to stay tuned.
Even local news has moved onto the style of reporting only half a dozen stories and sensationalising them, prefer this old style of quick coverage of many things.
i tell "youngsters" just how HELLISH cold the winter of 1981 was but they don't seem to believe it could ever have got that cold in this country."You had to be there" as they say!.
I was a youngster back then, aged eleven and in my first year at senior school, having been there just three months. And I remember the bad weather, as the school would shut down because of it. The teachers couldn't get in to school!
I had an injury to deal with that winter.... it happened just before the snow, and I remember having to go for an appointment at the hospital the morning after the snow started... 8 miles away, travelling in a Mini. My dad had been to Oxford to fetch lights for a play he was assisting with at the school where he worked, the day the snow started, and had just about reached Solihull when it started snowing. The journey home from that point took longer than the whole journey to Oxford had taken earlier in the day. It was no fun for me, not being at all mobile due to that injury, but at least, on "no school" days, I could watch TV - ATV Today included.
Yeah, she joined ATV in about 1980, but was soon snapped up by the struggling TVam in April 1983. Of course the sports presenter on ATV, Nick Owen, also joined her on the TVam sofa at the same time. As Bob Warman said at the time on the local news, "When TVam finally decided it needed some real stars to pull in the viewers it had to look no further than our own Anne Diamond and Nick Owen."
No modulation or softness to Anne's voice here. '' Police think the boy may be dead'', how lovely for the family to hear that. Also, '' A man is in hospital with a broken neck''
By Jove, Bob Warman looks much younger there. I was eleven and started senior school three months earlier. Anne Diamond must have been in her prime. Robert Clarke was two years older than me, as he was thirteen.
Didn't intend to kill him. I'm more concerned about the fact that when the Kidlington man was killed during a robbery, the police thought there were "no suspicious circumstances"!
Yeah, it was the music from TV programme "Prisoner Cell Block H". ATV had a lot of contacts through Australian television. This music was used as the ATV Today theme music.
Yeah, "Dynamism" by Francis Monk. It was the music from TV programme "Prisoner Cell Block H" and dubbed "Wentworth Moods". ATV had a lot of contacts through Australian television. This music was used as the ATV Today theme music. Here's the track: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zrzkSFWDoaY.html
