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-----Original Message----- > {Date:} 06/12/2006 > {Feedback Type:} Complaint > > {Title:} Mr > {First Name:} Mark > {Last Name:} Griffiths > > > {Email:} > {Phone:} > {Postcode:} > {Country:} England > > {About:} General > {Network:} BBC Regional Television > > {Regional Channel:} bbc london > > > > {Programme Name:} london news 6.30pm > {Transmission Date:}06 - 12 - 06 > > {Comments:} > During the report on the London Tube improvements a reporter (first > name Andy) used the phrase 'There's no doors inside..." Any one > who's been to school, as your reporter and the duty editor have, > should know that this is a shortening of "There is no doors > inside..." which if you check is terrible grammer. As you know it > should be "There are..." or "There're no doors..." > > I realise how low standards are presently throughout the media, but > that is no excuse just to go along with the slide. Could you please > let me know what the BBC newsroom policy is on this so I can > publicise it more widely. Thank you. Mark Griffiths, Leicester Square, > London From: info@bbc.co.uk To: CC: Subject: BBC London News [T20061207010GS010Z1924310] Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:57:24 +0000 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mr Griffiths Thank you for your e-mail. I understand that you noticed an example of poor grammar being displayed on BBC London News on 6 December. We appreciate that our viewers expect a high standard of spoken English by our reporters during our programmes and it is a matter of regret on this occasion you feel our normally high standards fell short. I can only assure you Mr Griffiths that your obvious annoyance at this occurance has been fully registered and has been made available to the production team and senior BBC management. Thank you once again for taking the trouble to contact us. Regards Richard Carey BBC Information

Email from "Steve Hamilton" Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:05:29 +0000
Hi Mark,
This bloke that saw Sacha Distel in Paris must be psychic. He's been dead since 23rd July 2004!!!
- Who says they saw him, Steve?!
- It's in the I Spy A Celeb on your home page!
- Must have been poor old Sacha's ghost that French bloke saw - entry updated with the new info!

On 31/10/2005 04:10:54
From: Ron Jennings, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
To: Mark Griffiths/ClassicFM/Radio@Radio
cc:
Mark - The wife and I listen to you on Classic FM most nights. Love the music. I found this label in my new coat. Any use to you? It had us in stitches!

Ron and Vera Jennings

On 05/10/2005 03:09:26
From: Richard Beatty, JPL, NASA, Pasadena, CA, USA
To: Mark Griffiths/ClassicFM/Radio@Radio
cc:
Subject: Anti-Gravity

Here's a cat story for you, from one of my colleagues who has too much time on his hand:

What if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on its feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground? Well, here is the illustrious response:

Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat cannot smash its furry back. If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore it simply does not fall. That's right you clever mortal (well, as clever as a mortal can get), you have discovered the secret of antigravity! A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height where the forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by scraping off some of the butter, providing lift, or removing some of the cat's limbs, allowing descent. Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system. The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFOs is, in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies. The one obvious danger is, of course, if the cats manage to eat the bread off their backs they will instantly plummet. Of course the cats will land on their feet, but this usually doesn't do them much good, since right after they make their graceful landing several tons of red-hot starship and a crew of really annoyed aliens crash on top of them.

Cheers,

Richard
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