The Breakfast bloggers
The programme is not just what you hear - this blog shows you what else happens. Sometimes a look behind the scenes, sometimes some office or programme gossip, often a glimpse of what goes on when the programme leaves the studio.
We are the Breakfast bloggers and we've each chosen our favourite Breakfast item as a symbol to accompany our posts.
Richard Jackson - Doesn't spend all his life in meetings. Some of it is spent going to and from meetings.
David Lennon - Rules the roost over Breakfast at the weekend. Supports Coventry City. Often needs cheering up (by the way that's a picture of a bacon sandwich).
Nikki Brown - Spends too much time getting wet on a bike, on a tennis court, in a swimming pool or by the side of a football pitch. Always pining for warm weather.
Gill Edmonds - masterminds many of the Breakfast OBs. Sometimes reads the news at weekends. Nicky rates her singing (quite an accolade).
Olie D'Albertanson - Was once at Southampton FC's Centre of Excellence. Thwarted by injury (knee and hip). Now an excellent guitarist in a band - "imagine Indie meeting Ennio Morricone".
Purvee Pattni - Can't run very fast, but is pretty quick on her bike. Biggest hates are washing dishes and ironing. Would love to meet Beck.
Ellie Reuter - Learned to type one-handed after a short-lived and accident-prone attempt at learning to snowboard. Never grumbles.
Breakfast bloggers past
Harriet Oliver - A big fan of Holby City, a devotee of thrash metal, fluent in Japanese and once spent £100 to have a hamster put down. Only two of these facts are true.
Andy Hall - Imagine Shaggy from Scooby Doo meets Patrick Kielty. Yep, weird isn't it. If we have a problem, if no one else can help and if we can find him, then we give him a call.
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Thank goodness it's Friday because another Black Monday to look forward to and only 79 days to Xmas!
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Thanks for the excellent introductions of the bloggers.
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Given the cost of the reduction of the VAT rate (to all concerned) would it not be of more benefit (to all concerned) to:
waive all interest payments on mortgages for three months, paid for by the tax payer (and to the tax payer in the case of mortgages held by certain banks!!)
double dole money for those out of work for the next 6 months
halve electric and/or gas bills for the expensive winter quarter for everyone(even the first £50 would be great, winter fuel allowance for everyone and double for pensioners - hoorah)
ANY of the above would be cheaper, would be easier and more likely to gain support and create a 'feel good' factor with the UK citizens than cutting VAT to allow an extra 20quid off a Chinese produced TV - it would also (heaven forbid) put the money where its needed, in the pockets of the least well off.
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Please - are there updates on the stories you ran live yesterday - one about the man and his son who had visited Mumbai prior to his heart op (related by his other son) and the other about the man who had secured himself in his room in the hotel and was communicating with someone else in the hotel via their Blackberries?
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That is an excellent summary on the team of bloggers at 5live BREAKFAST....
~Dennis Junior~
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This may sound a bit 'mad', but I guess you could say we live in a mad world !
The government have committed Billions to saving the banks and don't seem to have much thought for what is happening to Mr and Mrs Average in the 'real world'.
This is the mad bit ......... could the government gift a large amount of cash to each tax paying family in the UK ....... ?250,000 - ?500,000 !
These families would then pay off debt, buy property, invest, buy a car and would, dare I say, solve the problem on the High Streets overnight.
This is quite a nutty idea, but would probably work out a lot cheaper than throwing cash at the banks etc ?
What do you think ?
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does this page have a point ?
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Can somebody explain to me how a Pension deficit of millions of pounds can occur; surly the fund has been mismanaged, under subscribed or used for other purposes other than pensions. I don?t understand the logic.
How can the masses be affected and undermined by the privileged few?
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odd post, but i guess its funny? not quite as funny as seeing celebrities though.
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Yeah odd post, is there any point to this?
bodybuilding
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As a serving fire officer with over 25 years experience I listened with interest to the article about the involvement of Fire Brigades in rescuing very large people.
Sometimes referred to as "bariatric rescues" I was personally involved in the rescue of a Quarter ton man who had become distressed in his bed room . To get him out involved 2 fire crews ,3 ambulance crews and a fairly large police presence.
To get him out of the house involved the removing of the banister on the landing and stairs,the removal of the front doors and the removal of internal doors which eventually became a make shift stretcher.
He was so large that he had to placed on the floor of the ambulance and the whole thing lasted more than 4 hours. Throughout the rescue his dignity and respect were maintained . Unfortunately he died a few weeks later.
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Richard if you're spending too much time in meetings you should try using ClickHQ CRM Software.
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Can anyone define a good MP to me. I listened to call me dave yesterday defending the crook Julie Kirkbride and oozing what a good MP she is. To me anyone that rips me off is only a good crook
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just listened to the housing 'bias' phone in on listen again.
Re the report saying claiming there was no bias for immigrants getting housing - Nicky you did not pick up on the 'weasle' words in that report. There is no queue - it is the points system that makes for fait accomplis and rising up the points system by default because of obvious 'perverse incentives' allowing migrants a swift PILE of POINTS!(e.g. a CLOSE friend made sure he got his points BY CLEVERLY convincing the system that he was alocholic which he is not! AND The migrant women where I live happily have more children for more points - 'THEIR MEN' don't want them independent and working - I have ethnic friends who tell me what goes on! look at the act as someone said!
FOR many reasons - the Commission's report has chosen to lie in effect - TO SKATE OVER THe perverse incentive issue.
It makes me wonder that YOU NIcky - and BBC IN ALL ITS NEWS REPORTS could not get this important point re Points AS OPPOSED TO queues. Also that CRE woman should have been made to admit this fact. WHAT IF IT worked out -as it seems THE CASE where I live, that ONLY IMMIGRANTS - EVER - COULD QUALIFY FOR HOUSING UNDER THE POINTS SYSTEM. tHEN WHAT????????????? THE pc people need to answer the followin:
NB(i AM A GUARDIAN READER, GREENIE AND NO WAY BNP OR RACIST)... THE SYSTEM IS UNSUSTAINABLE BECAUSE THE WHOLE OF THE THIRD COULD ARRIVE HERE COULDN'T THEY?????? no matter how many social houses were built! At what point would our system collapse (not to mention theirs for losing their people to migration - a point never discussed). OUr system has collapsed already has it not? - hence ALL the unrest.
I will copy this to the CRE.
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I am disturbed (license payer) to see that this Breakfast comments blog is hardly used. Why is this? is because it is so hard to find?
It is so hard to find a place for various station and prog comments on the BBC website - is this deliberate? How do I know that anyone on Breakfast will read this? is anyone out there? thanks
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