Nice to see news just being reported from the studio without it being duplicated over and over with "live" broadcasts by someone on the scene stating nothing different apart from what already has been said.
I remember that weekend so well. Stinking hot summer and freezing winter. Had a massive snowball fight outside of my mates Mum's house and there was an abandoned Toys R Us lorry on the Radford Road in Coventry. Over a foot of snow dumped in less than two hours!
I remember that weekend so well, we had electricity blackouts in the Midlands and our next door neighbours very kindly cooked Sunday lunch for us, as they had gas. Absolutely freezing weekend, and yet four months earlier, we'd had the biggest heatwave since 1976...
I feel sooooo sorry for the couple who had to settle for baked beans rather than roast pheasant. They must have been in therapy for years after that trauma!
A very simple and quick, but powerful BBC News intro music here, as composer George Fenton said, it consisted of eight beats. Count them and you will see.
TV today is filled with people shouting and constant loud music - and it all seems so cheap and tacky! Maybe I'm an old fogie, but the TV 30 years ago was such better quality and you don't feel like you're falling into a brain dead coma when you watch it.
I was only 3 months old when this was broadcast - my mum remembers we in Killamarsh (near Sheffield and Chesterfield) went without electricity for about 6 days, my family had just a small battery-powered radio, and she had to cook my baby milk on the gas instead of using the kettle (formula milk). A work colleague of mine, who was about 16/17 at the time remembers walking through Mansfield around 5pm and even at that time because there were no streetlights, it was odd because you would (just) see someone in the distance, but not recognise them unless their face was just a few inches away from yours! All in all that winter sounds like it was a horrible one for the Midlands and the North - areas that are usually not used to power cuts because of adverse weather like this.
I was about 7 in Mansfield at the time, I remember being without power for days, a not being able to go anywhere for a couple days. At least the gas stayed on.
I had stopped at my grandmothers in Kirkby in Ashfield that Friday night, had to walk home only a couple of miles but I’ve still never seen it snow like that since then.
This was the first of two major cold spells that winter the second came in February 1991. A lot of the winters in the 80s and 90s had real bite to them that we just don’t see now.
Easy good presentation from Burke never changed in his time with the BBC. He was of the best. Great theme tune too. Always liked the start animation.
Nice to see news just being reported from the studio without it being duplicated over and over with "live" broadcasts by someone on the scene stating nothing different apart from what already has been said.
Ironically, the UK Number one single in the charts at the time was Ice Ice Baby.
your not wrong
Yeah, that sounds like us.
I remember that weekend so well. Stinking hot summer and freezing winter. Had a massive snowball fight outside of my mates Mum's house and there was an abandoned Toys R Us lorry on the Radford Road in Coventry. Over a foot of snow dumped in less than two hours!
It is happening again
I remember that weekend so well, we had electricity blackouts in the Midlands and our next door neighbours very kindly cooked Sunday lunch for us, as they had gas. Absolutely freezing weekend, and yet four months earlier, we'd had the biggest heatwave since 1976...
Take me back to the early 90s any day
Michael Buerk was just outstanding in his prime. Wish he'd not eroded it slightly with his reality tv appearances
Not just Michael Buerk, also Martyn Lewis, John Suchet, Phillip Hayton, Sue Lawley, Nicholas Witchell, etc.
scary voice on 999 when i was 10. that was good.
The four bolts of lightning on the titles represented North West, North East, South West, South East
god if only could go back to that day. What was id doing when this was aired. Would of been 9 and excited for xmas. Out in snow making snowman.
Was thinking exactly the same, I would have been 9 too. Where does the time fly to?!
you just made me, cry im the same age
that news theme used to scare me when I was little
It didn't scare me, it impressed me.
Thanks so much for uploading this to RUclips
I feel sooooo sorry for the couple who had to settle for baked beans rather than roast pheasant. They must have been in therapy for years after that trauma!
Love it. Haaaaaaa
It's hilarious!
A very simple and quick, but powerful BBC News intro music here, as composer George Fenton said, it consisted of eight beats. Count them and you will see.
Of all the news indents, this was the best.
Yep, I remember it being very cold. And I still had to go to school. Bah.
Nearly 30 years on they are saying this winter is going to be a bad one. Andy England 🇬🇧❄️
8:18 *RAY*mond Grieve
TV today is filled with people shouting and constant loud music - and it all seems so cheap and tacky! Maybe I'm an old fogie, but the TV 30 years ago was such better quality and you don't feel like you're falling into a brain dead coma when you watch it.
6:40 The AA are warning that multi-coloured function keys have gone too far.
The terrible Pheasant Shortage of 1990. Lest we forget.
Back when the BBC news told us what was happening in the world and not what the BBC thought should be happening.
or crap storylines like nowadays , like a celebrity having new dog or some pointless story they keep bringing up
I was only 3 months old when this was broadcast - my mum remembers we in Killamarsh (near Sheffield and Chesterfield) went without electricity for about 6 days, my family had just a small battery-powered radio, and she had to cook my baby milk on the gas instead of using the kettle (formula milk). A work colleague of mine, who was about 16/17 at the time remembers walking through Mansfield around 5pm and even at that time because there were no streetlights, it was odd because you would (just) see someone in the distance, but not recognise them unless their face was just a few inches away from yours!
All in all that winter sounds like it was a horrible one for the Midlands and the North - areas that are usually not used to power cuts because of adverse weather like this.
I was about 7 in Mansfield at the time, I remember being without power for days, a not being able to go anywhere for a couple days. At least the gas stayed on.
I had stopped at my grandmothers in Kirkby in Ashfield that Friday night, had to walk home only a couple of miles but I’ve still never seen it snow like that since then.
This was the first of two major cold spells that winter the second came in February 1991. A lot of the winters in the 80s and 90s had real bite to them that we just don’t see now.
Wow 2023 😅.
MICHAEL BWERK!!!!
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