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| Sorry
Harry Potter fans, Ian's all grown up now. |
Age:
53
Favourite rock band: The Temperance Seven
Favourite
Gracie Fields song: When I Took My Harp to a Party
Favourite
nosh: Bilberries, blackberries, apples, bilberries, bilberries,
apples, blackberries and pastry
Local
hero: Matthias Snook-Wilmton of Wideopen (inventor of the double
adjustable gusset).
Favourite
tree: Ginkgo (from which I get my nickname)
Hates: People who do "high-fives", rap music, people
who say "no problem" (say "nee bother"), people who make "To
Do" Lists all the time, focus groups, celery and turnips.  |
| Ian
Robinson |
Favourite
view: My bed
Hates:
People who do "high-fives", rap music, people who say "no problem"
(say "nee bother"), people who make "To Do" Lists all the time,
focus groups, celery and turnips.
Likes:
Spital Tongues, the Isle of Arran, hedgehogs, walruses, seahorses,
aspidistras and lithops.
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| Paul
Wappat during the evacuation |
Age:
40
Favourite
Place: Scarborough. Fond childhood holiday memories. We didn't
get far in those days.
Favourite View: As you approach Bamburgh castle from Seahouses.
First Job: Stores dispatcher with a local clothing firm, oh
dear!
Worst Job: The job I nearly got as an undertaker with the CO-OP.
Loves: Music and cars, preferably together.
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The worst job I nearly got was as an undertaker with the CO-OP.
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| Paul
Wappat |
Hates:
People eating burgers in the street whilst text messaging on their
mobile.
Loathes: celery and wood lice (damp beatles)
Best Meal: Chinese food with all the trimmings.
Local Hero: George Stephenson, the man that changed the world.
Best Building: Seaton Deleval Hall.
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| Ken
learns he'll be a bus driver when he grows up. |
Age:
22
First Job: I worked as a lifeguard when over the summer when
I was 16. It was great, I just got paid for sitting on the side
of the swimming pool all day.
Favourite View: Watching the sunrise at 6am over the Grand Canyon.
It was mid November, absolutely freezing, but immensely worth it
when I saw the sun come up over the canyon wall - an amazing site!
Likes: Takeaway food (pizza, chinese, indian, etc.... but not
kebab), warm and sunny weather, Billy Connolly (as a comedian) and
sleeping in on a weekend (or any day I don't have to be out and
working).
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I worked as a lifeguard when over the summer when I was 16.
It was great, I just got paid for sitting on the side of the
swimming pool all day. |
| Ken
Fraser |
Dislikes:
Inconsiderate drivers, getting up at ridiculously early hours (there's
a six o'clock in the MORNING!!), having nothing to do (I like keeping
busy).
Best Moment at work: Finally clapping eyes on the bus (and driving
it) after months of wait.
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|
1969's bonniest baby |
Age:
34
Likes: Extreme climates - heavy snow, scorching sun ... nothing
in between.
Hates: Getting out of bed, early starts, mornings (before 9.00am)
in general, people whistling.
Best food: Sausages and mash with onion gravy (vegetarian sausages
only)
Worst job: Cleaning the cages in a vet's surgery aged 12.
The ferrets
operated a dirty protest on behalf of the Ferrets Liberation Army,
the mangy rabbits had taken attack training from piranhas,
and I
still have scars from where a sick owl lodged its talons in my head.
Drinking the lambs' milk - complete with sheep's hormones - stored
in a milk bottle in the staff fridge cured me of my youthful aspiration
to a career as a vet.
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I still have scars from where a sick owl lodged its talons in
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| Natasha
Lee |
Best
job: Working on the BBC Blue Bus ....it even beats serving the
pina coladas on a millionaires' yacht in the Bahamas, which my colourful
career has encompassed!
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| Steve
was way ahead of the 80s New Romantic look. |
Age: Ageless
Worst Job: Working on a battery farm in Lincolnshire, cleaning
out after the chickens have gone for soup.
Fact: It's a foolhardy act to walk across a gulley full of sunbaked
chicken pooh, even if it looks as though the hardened surface will
take the weight of a fully grown teenager.
Favourite Journey: Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire/The M18
out of Scunthorpe.
Best Tune: Kennedy by The Wedding Present.
Local Hero: Mike Mould of Bruvvers Theatre Company, Byker. He
takes theatre to places other theatre companies can't reach and
carries on despite everything.
Loves: The cows on the town moor and the words 'Radgy' and 'Gadgy',
and especially when you see a radgy gadgy cow on the town moor with
a dew drop on its nose. The faces of the all-day drinkers of the
Raby Pub on Shields Rd.
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I
plan to use the bus to take me into town and bring me home on
its days off.
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| Steve
Drayton |
Hates:
Time wasted waiting for public transport to arrive. I plan to use
the bus to take me into town and bring me home on its days off.
I will also sell burgers from it when Westlife are next in town.
I will also demand all visitors have the correct change before coming
aboard.
Motto: Don't force it, use a bigger hammer.
Life worry: Is shortbread a cake, a bread or a biscuit?
Best Meal: Soup of the day.
Best Place: Runswick Bay, Nth Yorkshire.
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| What
a happy chappy! |
Age: 24
Born:
Newcastle
Shoe
size: 10
Favourite
sandwich filling: Cheese savoury
1st
gig: Don McLean at the Harrogate Conference Centre
Highest
Pacman score: 54,000
Best
holiday: Camping in America this summer
Most
likely to be found: Enjoying a pint in the Gosforth Hotel
Favourite
Minogue sister: Kylie
Claim
to fame: I once gave Mo Mowlam a massage
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| Young
Matthew was proud to own the world's shortest scarf. |
Age:
30
First
Job: Kitchen porter at a seaside hotel. On my first day I knocked
a dish of cauliflower onto the greasy floor. The chef just handed
me a shovel and said, "Don't worry. They'll think the grit is black
pepper".
Worst Job: See above
Best View: From Wolsingham Park Moor you can see a solitary
copse on the skyline called the Elephant Trees. It is stark and
beautiful and never fails to impress.
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The chef just handed me a shovel and said, "Don't worry. They'll
think the grit is black pepper". |
| Matthew
Barraclough |
Local
Heroes: Collingwood for doing the hard work of winning Trafalgar
when Nelson was busily engaged kissing Hardy; Parsons for the brilliance
of Turbinia and his audacity at the Spithead Review; and Stephenson
whose workshops were the NASA of his day.
Loves: Sausages
Hates: Fragments of bone in sausages.
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| Golden
girl Helen |
Age:
31
First
job: English and drama teacher in one of Sheffield's more difficult
secondary schools. I lasted two terms.
Worst
job: Care assistant in a nursing home during an outbreak of
sickness and diarrhoea ... need I say more?
Best
view: Being a Cornish lass, it has to be looking down Porthmeor
Beach from the Island in St Ives.
Likes:
Going out for a fry-up breakfast on a Saturday morning, snuggling
up in bed with a really good book, being an adopted Geordie.
Dislikes:
People who are unfair and intolerant.
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