@@johnhankinson1929 The Punjabi people, culture and environment are among the most colourful in the world. Have fun with yourself in Blackpool this summer! And if you learn some Punjabi while you're there, your horizons will have been broadened. Try to have a decent week.
Eh, but it’s unrealistic and doesn’t represent the population. We have a huge variety of accents here and I wish we had more newsreaders with regional accents as long as they’re clear enough.
@@spacecat3198 As a Geordie I tend to agree . I personally love the Liverpool accent , scouse ? Still , listening to English well spoken is a joy , almost musical .
There was no screechy over excitable Am I loud enough types on the telly back then,you don't no what you got until you lose it.But look at the country that used too be England,it don't exist no more.
I didn't miss it I was 12 but this was normal in those days. No drag queen in sight outside a seedy adult gay club in the sleazy areas of a city. 2023 they doing drag acts at primary schools.
@@diggerpete9334 and isn't it wonderful that we now live in a society that's caring and compassionate enough to be accepting of difference and diversity. We still have a long way to go but we're getting better all the time, despite the efforts of some.
@@bruce5799Yes, all it needs, really. Unlike today, when any news report not presented seemingly from an aircraft hanger size area is deemed inadequate.
This is my Birthday, i was 17 on this day 21st November in 1980 and just left school and started my first job..its amazing to watch this news programme and I remember how life was back then.😊
@@Ampex196 Interesting. I was once doing some behind the scenes work yes chair shifting and general running etc... ha ha when Angela Rippon did some work for our company on a promo. Angela Rippon was the host and being polite she must have been having a bad day as she wasnt very nice "behind the scenes"
Yes. I remember if I heard some commercial outlet giving news of a major event I'd check it on BBC News. Now they are nothing but woke lefties spewing out Government propaganda like the Soviet ' TASS'.
We need Frankie Boyle to read Scottish news Ray Winston or Danny Dyer for London news Sean Bean for Yorkshire and Alec Maskey for Belfast/Northern Ireland. Sooo funny😂😂😂
@@colmmccabe7223 Doesn't matter they still tell lies and talk shit nothing has changed they always brainwash the public into a fear based outlook on what's allegedly going on.
I didn't know about Brian Hanrahan, much respect to him and condolences to his family. He was on of the greats and a definitive part of my decade, the beautiful and magnificent '80s.♥️
1980 was a miserable year. The were wars in Afghanistan between the Soviet Union and the Mujahedeen and Iran and Iraq. I particularly remember the murder of John Lennon who only had seventeen days left to live.
I was just a kid but they were great times for me. I grew up in an area not affected by the difficulties that were occurring elsewhere in the country. Just good fortune but I count my blessings for it
Despite all the intense police investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper it was two Bobby's who eventually caught him by luck, the ripper victims were classed as prostitues and they were vilified by the police
George Oldfield and Dick Holland couldn’t find their own arseholes with both hands, how they ever reached the police ranks they did is incredible. Holland was also culpable in the miscarriage of justice of Stefan Kiszko and wasn’t held accountable. The Ripper enquiry was the worst example of a Police investigation ever.
If they had have persisted with the number plate trawl and the 5 pound note enquiries they probably would have caught him sooner. It was a different time, none of the technology of today. You can't beat a curious and suspicious cop on the ground. There were definitely some opportunities missed and connections not made .
Yeah because Margaret Thatchers daughter was going to university in Yorkshire so Thatcher said bring in the big boys from the Met, it took the Mets detectives 2 weeks to catch the bastard, the yorkshire police were made to look like the muppets they were.
I don't remember much about TV news in the early 80s but I do remember hearing news of John Lennon's murder on the radio- I was 4. We got our first colour TV in 1982 the year Channel 4 started.
Terry Wogan was responsible for hyping up the shooting of JR. Jan said the episode was on video tape, but in fact at that time Dallas was broadcast live from a 35mm FILM PRINT, as the quality was better than video tape. My claim to fame is that I loaded the film and played it out from a 35mm telecine machine (actually 2 as it was on 2 reels) in TV centre. We had a rehearsal earlier in the day so I knew who killed JR before most people, it was Kirsten.
You told what I doubted. THX! Shipping NTSC tapes and doing a standards conversion was not normal. An quality suffered enormously. But I am still a bit surprised it was a 35 mm copy. TBH it probably would still make a good showing today in 1080p HD.
@@ajs41 Not since I was born, which was before this video. Unless it a northern British accent, which are descended more directly from Middle English and these accents still have a silent initial h today.
@@markpalmer8083 I think it has on the news at least. Nowadays if you watch the news I'd bet it's more likely you will hear "a hotel" rather than "an 'otel"
Great to see how BBC News was broadcast over 40 years ago and Jan is still with us! Fascinating to see the softly softly approach to tobacco back then!
Wow, the news when they used to report news rather than PR BS. I remember these events so well, I wonder whether that is due in some part to the quality and salience of the reporting ?
I love the camera shot of the striking fireman seated at the conference sitting wearing his sheepskin jacket and smoking a large cigar. If ever there was a man in need of a pay rise…😊
Yes even to this day there is a shortage of fireman , due to poor pay . The station nearest to me it is 50% undermanned . Which could be a problem if there is a big fire and they have to pull people from far away .
A blast from the past. I used to empty my pockets of coins each night and had quite a good haul. I gave the bag to the striking firemen who were rattling jars outside the shopping centre. They went ballistic and thanked me. But yes, the Yoppers, the YOP scheme to tame high unemployment. I was lucky and had just served my apprenticeship as a joiner, before all that YOP nonsense was started. That JR rubbish was on the news for weeks... It was an awful tv programme. AS bad as Crossroads, Coronation St and later on Brookside (82 or something).
Bloody Terry Wogan. Him and 'Dallas'. He was never off our screens. He compared Children in Need for years. Poor people were giving their all, not knowing that Terry was trousering £10,000 for his input !
I was lucky to get a proper job in a shop in 1980. But the woman I worked for used the YOP scheme for cheap workers and had them doing her laundry and house cleaning for her.
i remember the shooting of JR. there was a big buzz about it at the time. strange thing tho' i cant explain why but over the past 18 months my tv has been switched off for most of that time. i used to watch tv most days but for some reason i have gone right off it. well, they don't call it Tv programming for no reason do they now. if you get what I'm saying.
Maybe because people like to look back on years gone by? It’s a small part of history. The reason I found this video is because I wanted to see what was making news headlines around the time I was born, which was 7 days after this broadcast went out. So for people like myself wanting to look back it’s a great video to have on here - I’d like to thank the uploaded for it!
1980 that's going back a bit, in the November I was in my new school (high) started at the new term in August, meeting new friends and the new school was massive compared to my middle school, I wonder if Mrs Campbell is still with us ,she was my tutor at cardinal heenan High in leeds West of Yorkshire, I was going to disco's until 10pm ,I was 13 at the time of the date on this video
British Leyland's union did as much harm to the trade union movement as the Tories did. Where I come from there had never been a strike in the major industry as the unions had always worked closely with the manufacturers to ensure the businesses flourished thereby increasing workers benefits.
So wonderful to hear correctly enunciated English rather than the “g dropped” English that seems so prevalent with our more “diverse” news readers/commentators etc
As you're so keen on English, I'll mention that the speech you have in mind is "g-dropped". Note the hyphen. Also, your reference to diversity reeks of racism. There are many whites on TV who have working-class accents.
The 'Yorkshire Ripper' enquiry became so muddled with, rumour and hoaxes among other distractions. Not easy to catch somebody who strikes at random and has no relationship with the victim though.
The solicitor for the girls who killed their father were "intelligent", as if that was a factor in favour of letting them off. That implies that to be a bit thick would have made them more guilty. How times (don't) change.
Man alive! I'd forgotten people, whatever their backgrounds, articulated distinctive British English so clearly. (in 2023 it's become mumbling peppered with 3rd hand American slang/expressions .... )
How lovely to hear the English Language spoken clearly and eloquently .
if you're from the darkest punjab ,you'll bring the dialect with you , rid Britain of these infidels
@@johnhankinson1929 The Punjabi people, culture and environment are among the most colourful in the world. Have fun with yourself in Blackpool this summer! And if you learn some Punjabi while you're there, your horizons will have been broadened. Try to have a decent week.
Eh, but it’s unrealistic and doesn’t represent the population. We have a huge variety of accents here and I wish we had more newsreaders with regional accents as long as they’re clear enough.
@@spacecat3198 As a Geordie I tend to agree . I personally love the Liverpool accent , scouse ? Still , listening to English well spoken is a joy , almost musical .
@@spacecat3198 Exactly - nothing wrong with a provincial accent, as long as they enunciate.
I`d go back to 1980 in a heartbeat
And have to deal with shoulder pads, perms and Pete Waterman musical acts!? Hell no!
...and invest all my saving in APPLE
I’d give anything to be back there, 80’s best years of my life 😊
My best years also. Life is just misery now
I was 16 in 1980, had only just left school....really didn't like the 70's though...🤮
A far better service than today
People spoke far more eloquently back then. Delightful to listen to
What ya talking about matey, there aren't nothing wrong with the way we talk.
@@ntal5859 chill bro, we all fam innit
Some people spoke eloquently, and some didn't. What does that remind me of? Oh, yes: today.
There was no screechy over excitable Am I loud enough types on the telly back then,you don't no what you got until you
lose it.But look at the country that used too be England,it don't exist no more.
Whenever I see/hear Jan Leeming reading the news I always think of Pamela Stephenson on Not The Nine O'Clock News! Uncanny!
I feel exactly the same lol
I was surprised to see...after never thinking of her that way 35 years ago, as a bit flippin lovely! Edit: Holy crap 43 years ago!
I'm pretty certain that Pamela was channeling Angela Ripping, though.l, not Jan.😊
ha, but I bet Pamela Stevephnson wasnt a high class prostitue
@@dizwell I thought she imitated both of them?
So glad you posted this...I missed it the first time round 43 years ago
I didn't miss it I was 12 but this was normal in those days. No drag queen in sight outside a seedy adult gay club in the sleazy areas of a city. 2023 they doing drag acts at primary schools.
I probably missed it too. I was 10 and not much interested in the news then I expect. I even found John Craven's Newsround boring. Lol
@@diggerpete9334 and isn't it wonderful that we now live in a society that's caring and compassionate enough to be accepting of difference and diversity. We still have a long way to go but we're getting better all the time, despite the efforts of some.
@@mariaobeirne514 Me too ref the news, but I was 16 back then.
So factual and concise compared to today
How basic the news set looks
Yes, no political bias and no agenda to be pushed. No 24 hour rolling news with 1 hour of news and 23 hours of bullshit.
@@thepub245 Don't you mean 15 minutes of news with 23 hours 45 minutes of utter bullshit? 😂
@@bruce5799Yes, all it needs, really. Unlike today, when any news report not presented seemingly from an aircraft hanger size area is deemed inadequate.
@@thepub245 You nailed it!
This is my Birthday, i was 17 on this day 21st November in 1980 and just left school and started my first job..its amazing to watch this news programme and I remember how life was back then.😊
Jan Leeming was a guest on the Eurovision song contest last Saturday as she presented it once back in the 80s.
How lovely was Jan Leeming in the 80s?
That depends on what you mean by 'lovely'. She could be very unfriendly. Angela Rippon really was (and still is) properly 'lovely'!
@@Ampex196 Interesting. I was once doing some behind the scenes work yes chair shifting and general running etc... ha ha when Angela Rippon did some work for our company on a promo. Angela Rippon was the host and being polite she must have been having a bad day as she wasnt very nice "behind the scenes"
Don't know about that beige turtle-neck jumper though...
@@dlamiss I speak (and write) as I find. Angela was ok with me.
@@Ampex196 As do I
Thanks for this. For a while I was 24 again !
I was 26, having bought my first house two years earlier.
Funny to think that the BBC was once a respected news source.
It is now
Yes. I remember if I heard some commercial outlet giving news of a major event I'd check it on BBC News. Now they are nothing but woke lefties spewing out Government propaganda like the Soviet ' TASS'.
@@davidknowles3459not at all
I'm with you Steve, I don't trust anything the BBC force feed us 👍
@@balthiersgirl2658 Oh yes it is
Those were the days when tv folks spoke coherently, not like today where its all mumbling an'fings innit.😁
But do you not think regional accents relate to people more? As long as maybe not Too Scouse Glaswegian Yorkshire Cockney or Belfast lol😂.
We need Frankie Boyle to read Scottish news Ray Winston or Danny Dyer for London news Sean Bean for Yorkshire and Alec Maskey for Belfast/Northern Ireland. Sooo funny😂😂😂
And Stephen Graham for Liverpool.
@@colmmccabe7223 Doesn't matter they still tell lies and talk shit nothing has changed they always brainwash the public into a fear based outlook on what's allegedly going on.
It just means you’re going deaf, you know!
This brings back memories. I was 12 in 1980.
Me to i was 12 and a half at the time.
I was 4 👶 😭 lol
Met her once, Jan Leeming was much more beautiful in real life than on TV
Nice to see Brian Hanrahan who 2 years later reported with distinction from the Falkland Islands. Sadly he died aged 61 of cancer in 2010.
I counted them all out and I counted them all back.
I didn't know about Brian Hanrahan, much respect to him and condolences to his family. He was on of the greats and a definitive part of my decade, the beautiful and magnificent '80s.♥️
I passed his grave in St Pancras Cemetary in East Finchley.
Such is life.
Wonder if they could imagine that 43 years later their output could be seen on demand anywhere in the world.
1980 was a miserable year. The were wars in Afghanistan between the Soviet Union and the Mujahedeen and Iran and Iraq. I particularly remember the murder of John Lennon who only had seventeen days left to live.
Also the loss of Peter Sellers, at a time when we needed cheering up.
I started secondary school that year hard to forget!
Yes funny what one remembers, John Lennon death, I was 11.
I was 19. I would rather be in 1980, than be a 19 year old in 2023 though.
I was just a kid but they were great times for me. I grew up in an area not affected by the difficulties that were occurring elsewhere in the country. Just good fortune but I count my blessings for it
Sad how so many of the issues making the news in 1980 are still prevalent today.
That’s “Progress”! We haven’t moved very far have we?
What a complete mess the Police made of the Ripper investigation, looking at this drives that home.
I love that clear concise straight up way and easy on the ear delivery. That accent has more or less disappeared today.
Really enjoyed that, thanks!
It’s confirmed. I am old. I clicked on this thinking it was a ‘Not the Nine O’clock News clip. 🤣
1980, 1960, 1970, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 same old news - strikes, wars, unemployment, soap operas et al. Same distractions hiding the same agendas
And what ‘agendas’ would they be?
@@oscarwilde5473 I’m guessing that you see yourself as an above average person. You must have many many examples of these illusions.
I prefer old fashioned news readers and just a few bulletins per day.
Good, I was hoping you'd upload this. I missed it 😢
Roadhouse
Excellent so much more detail than today.
Despite all the intense police investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper it was two Bobby's who eventually caught him by luck, the ripper victims were classed as prostitues and they were vilified by the police
Luckily Covid got him
@@BIJOU167 Luck or God's judgement?
George Oldfield and Dick Holland couldn’t find their own arseholes with both hands, how they ever reached the police ranks they did is incredible. Holland was also culpable in the miscarriage of justice of Stefan Kiszko and wasn’t held accountable. The Ripper enquiry was the worst example of a Police investigation ever.
@@mickykedian7753 Talk is cheap.
If they had have persisted with the number plate trawl and the 5 pound note enquiries they probably would have caught him sooner. It was a different time, none of the technology of today. You can't beat a curious and suspicious cop on the ground. There were definitely some opportunities missed and connections not made .
The last ripper victim - two months later Sutcliffe was caught.
Yeah because Margaret Thatchers daughter was going to university in Yorkshire so Thatcher said bring in the big boys from the Met, it took the Mets detectives 2 weeks to catch the bastard, the yorkshire police were made to look like the muppets they were.
@@nickmail7604 The met didn't catch him nor did Carol Thatcher go to uni in Yorkshire. You're a clown.
Spoilers 🤭
I don't remember much about TV news in the early 80s but I do remember hearing news of John Lennon's murder on the radio- I was 4. We got our first colour TV in 1982 the year Channel 4 started.
Lovely. Just reporting on the news with no opinion. BBC news is unrecognisable today.
I think you are confusing it with ITN
Those were the days. So different now.
Terry Wogan was responsible for hyping up the shooting of JR. Jan said the episode was on video tape, but in fact at that time Dallas was broadcast live from a 35mm FILM PRINT, as the quality was better than video tape. My claim to fame is that I loaded the film and played it out from a 35mm telecine machine (actually 2 as it was on 2 reels) in TV centre. We had a rehearsal earlier in the day so I knew who killed JR before most people, it was Kirsten.
You told what I doubted. THX! Shipping NTSC tapes and doing a standards conversion was not normal. An quality suffered enormously.
But I am still a bit surprised it was a 35 mm copy. TBH it probably would still make a good showing today in 1080p HD.
Even as a young man then I wondered why we were force fed all this bad news all the time. Anxiety inducing nonsense. What a horrid job!
When hotel was still pronounced the French way.
It hasn't changed.
@@markpalmer8083 Back then quite a lot of people pronounced it without sounding the "h", whereas today hardly anyone does so.
@@ajs41 Not since I was born, which was before this video. Unless it a northern British accent, which are descended more directly from Middle English and these accents still have a silent initial h today.
@@markpalmer8083 I think it has on the news at least. Nowadays if you watch the news I'd bet it's more likely you will hear "a hotel" rather than "an 'otel"
Great to see how BBC News was broadcast over 40 years ago and Jan is still with us! Fascinating to see the softly softly approach to tobacco back then!
Spot on Jean it's happening here in the UK also,the fifth column is already here ready to go!
What ever happened to the bbc 😢.
I can say that the way English is spoken in Britain is still the gold standard.
Just thinking, that even our nostalgia isn't like it was in the good old days.
😂😂😂😂
Nostalgia is overrated! It's a thing of the past
@@edmundpower1250 As the late great Groucho Marx once said, “I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.”
I was born 7 days after this broadcast! lol
Only 2 more years before tv was blessed with such greatness as Knight Rider!
That fire engine is a vintage classic.
Who'd have thought those new Harrier jump jets would be in combat just 18 months later in the Falklands!
And who would have thought they’d be decommissioned shortly afterwards? Sold to America.
James Prior had a resemblance to Margaret Thatcher and Jacob Rees-Mogg has similar tonality and speech patterns to Sir George Young.
Cool upload. Subbed
Oh, heck. I was looking for the Not the Nine O'Clock News...😂😂😂
I remember the tape being played at the time.
1:15 Martin Bell, a great reporter.
In 2023 we no longer have such humanity in corporations.
Even cigarette advert banning was coming in then (17:00) ✔
21st November 1980 was just one day before my 14th birthday.
Bet you didn't expect the world to fizzle 40 years later 😅😅
2 days before my 16th
I was born 2 months prior to this news bulletin
38 days from my 24th.
@@Mr_Spliffy To be honest, a lot of us were like 50/50 about a nuclear war. The Government had us going with its 'Protect and Survive' bullshit.
I was 5 years old. I think Angela Rippon presented it then as well.
Is that Jan leeming ? Interesting bit about HMS Invincible .
Jan Leeming, such beauty and elegance!
Wow, the news when they used to report news rather than PR BS. I remember these events so well, I wonder whether that is due in some part to the quality and salience of the reporting ?
I love the camera shot of the striking fireman seated at the conference sitting wearing his sheepskin jacket and smoking a large cigar. If ever there was a man in need of a pay rise…😊
Yeah! Look at them today: absolutely potless! Makes you sick.
Cigars were cheaper then
@@PK-yf3hd not comparatively, they were always luxury things.
Yes even to this day there is a shortage of fireman , due to poor pay . The station nearest to me it is 50% undermanned . Which could be a problem if there is a big fire and they have to pull people from far away .
@@welshpete12 Poor pay? the average fireman is on 38k p/a!!!
@4:04 - male union leaders always seem to have the same accent; no matter what union they’re representing or which decade they were from 😂.
Interesting the pronounciation of hotel with a soft h. Moira Stewart used to do that as well.
Sea Harrier...so impressive at the time...Still looks 😎 cool
A blast from the past. I used to empty my pockets of coins each night and had quite a good haul. I gave the bag to the striking firemen who were rattling jars outside the shopping centre. They went ballistic and thanked me.
But yes, the Yoppers, the YOP scheme to tame high unemployment.
I was lucky and had just served my apprenticeship as a joiner, before all that YOP nonsense was started.
That JR rubbish was on the news for weeks... It was an awful tv programme. AS bad as Crossroads, Coronation St and later on Brookside (82 or something).
Bloody Terry Wogan. Him and 'Dallas'. He was never off our screens. He compared Children in Need for years. Poor people were giving their all, not knowing that Terry was trousering £10,000 for his input !
I was lucky to get a proper job in a shop in 1980. But the woman I worked for used the YOP scheme for cheap workers and had them doing her laundry and house cleaning for her.
The glory days of BBC R.P ⚡
I speak like this in my head but it doesn’t always come out like that
I miss the days when newsreaders' jumpers matched their desks.
This was never mentioned in documentaries about The Yorkshire Ripper!
Should have listened to Andrew Laptew
What was never mentioned? I haven't watched the whole clip yet because it's 4 in the morning.
The hoaxer who sent the tape phoned the Daily Mirror saying he'd kill again.
Probably because it was one of multiple hoaxes. Unless it was ‘Wearside Jack’ himself, which was mentioned in most documentaries about the ripper.
Aptly named Bill Deal..."deal or no deal?"
i remember the shooting of JR. there was a big buzz about it at the time. strange thing tho' i cant explain why but over the past 18 months my tv has been switched off for most of that time. i used to watch tv most days but for some reason i have gone right off it. well, they don't call it Tv programming for no reason do they now. if you get what I'm saying.
Happy days!
Remain puzzled by this RUclips contribution. That day now 43 years ago ... why show now?
Maybe because people like to look back on years gone by? It’s a small part of history. The reason I found this video is because I wanted to see what was making news headlines around the time I was born, which was 7 days after this broadcast went out. So for people like myself wanting to look back it’s a great video to have on here - I’d like to thank the uploaded for it!
1980 that's going back a bit, in the November I was in my new school (high) started at the new term in August, meeting new friends and the new school was massive compared to my middle school, I wonder if Mrs Campbell is still with us ,she was my tutor at cardinal heenan High in leeds West of Yorkshire, I was going to disco's until 10pm ,I was 13 at the time of the date on this video
i would have been in my second year as i started in 79
British Leyland's union did as much harm to the trade union movement as the Tories did. Where I come from there had never been a strike in the major industry as the unions had always worked closely with the manufacturers to ensure the businesses flourished thereby increasing workers benefits.
Jan's hair is lovely😍
A news presenter that doesnt look like a half naked barbie doll.
Curious what channel you are watching...
6:20 a young Jeremy Thompson from Sky News?
Oh I loved Jan Leemings hair back then. Especially with her hoop earrings. I was only 9 yo and really wanted to copy her 😅😅😅😅
2:08 he speaks/sounds like John Wayne.
i remember when the news came on all the news readers had posh London accents even you lived-in the north you'd only get this news from down south
Jan Leeming's accent is not a London one, 'posh' or otherwise.
I agree.
Do you only want news from the north in the north?
@Andrew JS that's for the regional news which oddly enough still sounds southern. I am a southerner myself and live in the North so no bias.
Northern news sometimes percolated down south. It was either about mass murder or sausages.
Aw, Jan Leeming
The weather details come from Frank Greene.
So wonderful to hear correctly enunciated English rather than the “g dropped” English that seems so prevalent with our more “diverse” news readers/commentators etc
As you're so keen on English, I'll mention that the speech you have in mind is "g-dropped". Note the hyphen. Also, your reference to diversity reeks of racism. There are many whites on TV who have working-class accents.
Sir George Young and Jacob Rees Mogg ....... Same person surely ?
Well he is still alive at 81, MP from 1974-2015 and a baron from 1960 - 2015. Jobs for the boys it seems.
"Exit" , oh dear sounds familiar.
I ended up on a Government Training scheme 84-85.
The 'Yorkshire Ripper' enquiry became so muddled with, rumour and hoaxes among other distractions. Not easy to catch somebody who strikes at random and has no relationship with the victim though.
For God sake tell them to stop listening to the tape and arrest Peter Sutcliffe.
Jan Leeming presents the bulletin.
09:00 - Woah, Black Betty! Hanrahan!
Jan Leeming ❤
Jan Learning early days ?
Brown brown and more brown…and a little bit of cream.
Poor little lad Steven Edmonston 😢 if he was my relative, I'd want to do the same 😡
@8:49 He's going to make his name covering the Falklands War.
They should bad these giant hotels and offices like they have even bigger now
Another example of what a terrible idea tall buildings are
8:53 Peter you've lost the news!!
The solicitor for the girls who killed their father were "intelligent", as if that was a factor in favour of letting them off. That implies that to be a bit thick would have made them more guilty. How times (don't) change.
Perhaps just indicating the girls ""compus mentis''
or "' not thick''
my word she's cute, and, as others here already say, such sharp diction, well spoken, ugh, those were the days.
Nothing much changes in human affairs does it.
Jan Leeming was a good looking girl.
Man alive! I'd forgotten people, whatever their backgrounds, articulated distinctive British English so clearly. (in 2023 it's become mumbling peppered with 3rd hand American slang/expressions .... )