Retired PR/media business owner, UK award winning media manager, broadcast & print editor, Memory Lane Radio presenter. 42 years journalism experience 1984-2026
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Many men struggle to open up about mental health - but it doesn't have to be that way.
There's an @andysmanclubuk near you with guys ready to listen over a brew. It's free and non-judgmental.
Meet Monday night from 7pm. Info: andysmanclub.co.uk #WorldMentalHealthDay – at Malton, England
Please never be embarrassed or too afraid to talk about your mental health. You’re tired from being strong. There’s nothing wrong with seeking assistance with getting along.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD26 #MentalHealth
John Gelson 🚍📻🇺🇦 retweeted
So many memories of the halcyon days when local radio was actually local. It’s madness that this vital service is being demolished in the name of digital ‘progress’. Happy 40th @BBCEssex
Happy 40th Birthday @BBCEssex There'll be a station retrospective covering the people, places and events that have shaped the last four decades in the county at 11am today bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0034cx…
John Gelson 🚍📻🇺🇦 retweeted
Ofcom has said the BBC has not provided a “clear picture” of the impact its cost-cutting measures will have on the corporation, and has requested it set out a timetable for further planned cuts and closures independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Time for the weather now ... or maybe not
This is why #BBCLocalRadio still matters in 2026.
@BBCRichardMoss holding Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen to account on @BBCTees Breakfast today over a Government inspection into the Tees Valley Combined Authority.
Tough questions asked on behalf of listeners and licence payers 👏
"What's going on here? Why are inspectors having to go in?"
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen is questioned on the government's inspection into the TVCA's finances 🗣️
Hear more 🔊 bbc.in/4sDi7Oa
Latest from the NUJ re Ofcom and the BBC ...
The NUJ welcomes Ofcom’s request to the BBC for further information on cuts, including the impact on audiences and its ability to carry out its mission and public purpose.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Attached from Private Eye mag - the BBC says it didn't know about its 2026 cuts to local radio when it asked Ofcom to vary its licence in 2025. Almost a year on, new Saturday shows promised by the BBC haven't appeared but its cuts, made possible by Ofcom's licence change, go on..
Remembering in Harrogate #Remembrance2026
One of my favourite walks. First time I did it was summer 2002, to briefly "see the view" before going home: I stayed two hours! Sunset behind the Langdale fells turned Windermere into a shimmering ribbon of gold. After 11.30pm when I got home - worth every yawn at work next day!
Orrest Head Walk: Retracing Wainwright’s First Lakeland Fell baldhiker.com/orrest-head-wa…
These figures speak for themselves, and this is by no means the only BBC Local Radio station facing similar today. No reflection on the news and programme teams working harder than ever - this one's on the 'management' who are destroying BBC LR with death by a thousand cuts
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Sales of radios increase while the number of local radio presenters and journalists and the amount of local radio programming are reduced. Now is your moment @Ofcom to look at the BBC Local cuts.
MUST READ: From @DavidLloydRADIO: a detailed analysis of the BBC's dismantling of Local Radio, and its impact on otherwise unserved audiences over 50 - while exposing the regulator's litany of failures to hold the publicly funded BBC to account for it 👇
davidlloydradio.com/post/why…
Saturday read (about as grim as the weather ...) #BBCCuts
A longer read on BBC cuts:
-BBC not halfway to £500m goal
-More radical savings required
-BBC Sounds under threat?
-Bosses mulled axing CBBC
-1,200 of 2k layoffs confirmed
-Industrial action threat lingers
-Concern at charter talks urgency
deadline.com/2026/10/inside-…
John Gelson 🚍📻🇺🇦 retweeted
Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said:
“Instead of drip-feeding cuts, we urge BBC management to support calls for investment to secure the broadcaster's future. It is incumbent on the government to intervene in the Autumn budget and #BackTheBBC.”
nuj.org.uk/resource/bbc-cuts…
Please sign and support 🙏 #BBCCuts – at Malton, England
#BackTheBBC: Public services only work when we invest in them and the people who provide them.
Sign our joint petition to oppose 2,000 job cuts and the loss of quality programming, which will be felt by viewers in the UK and beyond ⬇️
megaphone.org.uk/petitions/b…
John Gelson 🚍📻🇺🇦 retweeted
The NUJ BBC Audio chapel said:
“The BBC’s decision to cut You and Yours alongside other much-loved TV and radio programmes utterly undermines the BBC’s core mission to ‘act in the public interest’ and provide ‘high-quality and distinctive output.’”
nuj.org.uk/resource/bbc-cuts…
