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Meet the team
The Bus Team
The team today - from left to right: (Back row) Steve, Natasha, Helen, Jamie. (Front row) Matthew, Paul, Ian and Ken.

Introducing the team behind the BBC Bus, including Radio Newcastle favourites Ian Robinson and Paul Wappat.
If you find this lot offensive on the eyes, you can see their bonny baby pictures
below.

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Ian Robinson

Young Ian
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)

quote 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. quote
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

Young Paul
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.

quote The worst job I nearly got was as an undertaker with the CO-OP. quote
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 Fraser

Baby Ken
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).

quote 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. quote
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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