Another stellar night of trivia saw a new champion crowned – Les Quizerables of BBC Guernsey held on through a fraught finish to be named Orchard Media Quiz winners for 2013. For the last two years the trophy has resided with Channel TV but this year, after a hard fought battle, it will be making its way across Television House into the BBC Guernsey Studio.
Why?
Because BBC Breakfast presenter Gary Burgess is off on a gap year (or mid life crisis as he is calling it).
Here he is with the smiley Orchard team proudly wearing his new t-shirt. Good luck Gary!
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It may be a global phenomenon, but in some ways Twitter has been a bit slow in catching on here in the Channel Islands. It is now starting to gain something of a critical mass, with key personalities in the islands taking up the service as a way of building brands and personalities. News outlets and the media have engaged, and breaking news now makes it to Twitter at the same time as it hits news stands and the airwaves. I’m now able to keep track of most local news via a few feeds, something that would have been impossible even a couple of years ago.
News breaking first on twitter will be the next step, and we reached a milestone of sorts today as well known and popular BBC Radio Guernsey presenter Gary Burgess announced on twitter that he was leaving the station.
Cab for Hire MP Stephen Byers graced this week’s Sunday papers after allegedly offering lobbying services to under cover reporters for £5k per day.
Simultaneously, on the BBC Guernsey phone-in, concerns were voiced that Suez Environnement were offering members of the States of Guernsey an invitation to lunch as part of an 11th hour briefing before Wednesday’s latest “incinerator” debate.
With calls in the UK for a statutory register of lobbying activity, it seems that the new row is all set to be a pre-election sequel to MPs expenses.
