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Gayle

Gayle

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Is anyone else watching the programme on Channel 5 that is giving this area a bad name?
 
Gayle said:
Is anyone else watching the programme on Channel 5 that is giving this area a bad name?
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Watching it now, Gayle.........from between my fingers with my hands over my face.

Hideous, isn't it. :(

Footage taken on Mad Friday (last Friday before Christmas)

Hope there's no Accywebbers on. ;)
 
It is awful. I used to go out drinking in Blackburn but never remember anything like this.

Then again, I was always the drunk that was curled up in a corner asleep. :D
 
Recording it, sounds like it could be worth watching. Don't think it can be any worse than other towns I have seen featured. The fighting makes me cringe and a lot of the time the girls/women are worse than the boys/men:o
 
shakermaker said:
I think it might have had a bad name before this programme!!

:hidewall:
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Don't need to hide behind a wall....Blackburn is the pit's.
I was born in Blackburn and cringe when I hear Straw on his soapbox.
The police can't get a grip because their hands are tied.
The central police station is no longer in the centre.
Bus drivers are assaulted, Taxi drivers are mugged and poor Johnny, according to his brief, didn't mean to do it honest,
Where do the priorities lie? Fixed penalties for smoking in a van or sorting out these would be hardmen and women who think they can get away with murder?
Going out at night to your popular haunt is no longer an option.
Where the hell are we going?
 
Just watched it. Standard weekend stuff really ( I can’t be alone in thinking that ) seen in just about every town the length and breadth of the country. Guess that’s part of the problem that it’s seen as standard behaviour.
 
I seemed to have missed an announcement by the government over the years, as the programme was called CCTV Cities and the commentator referred to Blackburn City centre :confused:
 
lancsdave said:
I seemed to have missed an announcement by the government over the years, as the programme was called CCTV Cities and the commentator referred to Blackburn City centre :confused:
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Hey come on Davie Baby..........Blackburn has got a Cathederal and should be a city:confused:
 
Royboy39 said:
Hey come on Davie Baby..........Blackburn has got a Cathederal and should be a city:confused:
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That must have been the assumption by the programme makers, just the fact that it has a cathedral, therefore it’s a city.

Looks like they were wrong to assume.

Just looked up the criteria for being a city, wish I hadn't, it's too late at night for that - City Status

The list of cities is here if any one is interested - UK Cities
 
Bonnyboy said:
That must have been the assumption by the programme makers, just the fact that it has a cathedral, therefore it’s a city.

Looks like they were wrong to assume.

Just looked up the criteria for being a city, wish I hadn't, it's too late at night for that - City Status

The list of cities is here if any one is interested - UK Cities
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Just testing.....the only Catherdral in Burnley is the Boot.
 
Most cities are dumps for the dross of society.
Who in their right minds would live in any city centre.
Nowt wrong in being a 'hick from the sticks'
 
Bonnyboy said:
Just watched it. Standard weekend stuff really ( I can’t be alone in thinking that ) seen in just about every town the length and breadth of the country. Guess that’s part of the problem that it’s seen as standard behaviour.
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...but only in Britain. It's not standard behaviour in the city centres of Madrid, Paris, Rome or even New York. So what's gone wrong with this country?
 
Wynonie Harris said:
...but only in Britain. It's not standard behaviour in the city centres of Madrid, Paris, Rome or even New York. So what's gone wrong with this country?
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That’s the big question and how do we turn the situation around ?

I don’t see any “quick fixes” either. It’s been pretty much as the programme depicted for years, it’s become habitual and part of a way of life for many.
 
Only when the last pub shuts will the problem end
The alkies will then be giving their neighbours aggro instead
At least it disperses the problem so we all get a bit :rolleyes:
 
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