Parochial

I seem to have stirred up a right old hornet's nest with tales of transmitters not doing everything we expect of BBC regional services. It used to be the sort of story Fyfe Robertson would cover on the old Tonight Show.

Apparently if you live at one end of Cole Lane, Ockbrook, you get the BBC West Midlands signal from Sutton Coldfield and learn about crime in Telford, 60 miles away. If you live at the other end, you get BBC East Midlands from Waltham-on-the-Wolds and crime in Nottingham, 10 miles away.

Why they don't just go round to their neighbours baffles me.