I well remember when we first got BBC Radio Lincolnshire. We listened to it all the time and I still listen to it today, on the way in to work and on the way home, with Rod Whiting's breakfast show and drivetime with William Wright.
One of the (few) advantages of an hour long commute is listening to the radio and catching up on Lincolnshire events. Yesterday BBC Lincolnshire was covering an awful story concerning a body that was said to have been buried many years ago, full funeral and everything but wasn't. The body has been in the mortuary all this time and probably another body is in the wrong grave.
This is the sort of story you probably only get covered in depth on local radio. Unfortunately it's not a story about Lincolnshire. With a sort of inevitablility the story is one from Hull. Our local station is BBC Lincolnshire. Hull is not in Lincolnshire.
By all means cover stories like this on the news on BBC Lincolnshire, after all it would be pretty parochial just to cover the county and nothing else but please don't dress it up as "local" because its not.
Save BBC Local Radio, and keep it local please.
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