Anyone have access to London Live?
I don't. I think I used to though for some reason. I'm not sure it's on Freeview is it?
If you are in London, you should be able to get on - Freeview channel 8, Sky 117, and Virgin Media 159.
Thanks Cupid. I'm in Woking not London
Thanks Cupid. I'm in Woking not London but I do appear to get London Live on Freeview on channel 8 as you said. Is it possible to access the Hendrix programmes online in some way?
Well someone has to live there! ( Met old friends from St Johns last night in pub garden in Ripley).
They also fucked over the guy who tried to stop it. We cover it each year in law of armed conflict. Then Hadithia happened and the US has learned nothing.My Lai happened back in March, but the full horror would take another year or so to be revealed. Only one US soldier was convicted - hundreds were massacred.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Ibrox disaster - amazingly i hadn't heard of this before.
i'm not sure i had - have a vague recollection of an accident at ibrox being mentioned in some reference to hillsborough, but wasn't aware of the detail until the BBC ran a few things about it last week
Its been a couple of months short of fifty years since i arrived in Britain and discovered that running down and icy pavement is unwise, its been my first memory ever since then.
E.t.a forgot i was in p&p
We need the face palm thing.
I am amazed I hadn't heard of it before. I was born in 1978 so it's before my time but imagine not having heard of Hillsborough.
I think Hillsborough was one of a number of major incidents around that time (kings cross fire, marchioness sinking, clapham rail crash) that changed the thinking about these things from "it's unfortunate but it's one of those things" towards a "maybe it could have been prevented if things had been done better and maybe there ought to be some accountability"
There seems to have been an official mindset during the 1939 - 45 war to try and cover up / play down any incident (bethnal green underground station, for example, and initially there was an attempt to put out that the V1 or V2 bombs had been 'gas explosions') in the interests of 'morale' and i wonder how much of that stayed in the official way of thinking for a generation or two
Piper Alpha was around that time, too.
i've edited mine to say 'including' - could also have mentioned the 'herald of free enterprise' and probably others that i've not immediately thought of
I was on the 'Herald of Free Enterprise' 24 hours before it went down, we had already delayed our return from Amsterdam by a day, we had considered holding off for another day, fucking lucky we didn't. I was well stoned on that crossing, and my mate had dropped the last acid tab we had.
When that news broke on the TV, I had a serious shiver go down my spine, something I've never experienced before nor since.
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I remember it well, the pictures in the Sunday papers made my dad raise the question about me and my mates going unaccompanied to matches. I was 13 at the time. Horrific incident but those steps were an accident waiting to happen.Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Ibrox disaster - amazingly i hadn't heard of this before.
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