Cannot believe the tone of their reporting on the Westfield site occupation. The condescension to those poor plebs who for some reason have a problem with having a hole in the middle of town for a DECADE.

Still waiting for them to pick up and run with the Odeon story, it's been in the nationals and Private Eye lately after all...

Perry Austin-Clarke seems to have been there an age. Is there no chance of him clearing off?

If you read the Eye you'd see the Pilotti column in the previous edition about the Odeon and the apparent involvement of the T&A in the whole saga. If correct it shows the T&A are completely in bed with the council to try and get a deal out of them for their premises.

It would explain their reluctance to ever criticise the idiots in city hall.

savetheodeon.wordpress.com/heroe ... aph-argus/ Sort of story that a local newspaper should be covering...

savetheodeon.wordpress.com/heroe ... aph-argus/ Sort of story that a local newspaper should be covering...

The T&A has become a sorry excuse for a paper. They seem to be concentrating on becoming an online version, presumably more lucrative due to advertising, but the print version to me is not worth buying any more, I used to have it delivered for very many years but it started to go downhill some years back and I think it has just got worse and worse.

Trying to defend a city centre having a crater for a middle for a decade has probably become easier, it's like when debts go from hundreds of millions into a billion, people get desensitised and it just goes over their heads after a while. But if you think about it for a moment - a decade - T E N _ Y E A R S - with no sign of anything happening - is 100% inexcusable and a disgrace in anyone's book. To find the local rage patronising critics and posturing in favour of Westfield (who seem to me to treat the whole city with utter contempt, and rarely - if ever - think it worth the effort to speak to the public of Bradford directly). Surely such a scandal should have been meat and drink for the city's newspaper to get its teeth into?

And that's without even going to the Odeon farrago.

I went into the centre of Bradford on Friday night for the first time in an age, too see the completed water feature (fantastic) & visit the food festival (disappointing). The Odeon was invisible in a David Copperfield Empire State Building stylee. How have they done it?

They nicked your specs mate

How long has the Odeon been shut?

Cant help but think that its too late to save. Shouldnt have been left to reach this state but the building looks a wreck from the outside.

Tha main deterioration was caused by the internal rainwater pipes being removed, consequently all rain deposits itself within the building. Damp & timber do not go very well together. Those wishing to see the Odeon demoilished were no doubt relieved at this chance occurrence.

I was staggered when I read that article in Private Eye. The T&A and the council should hang their heads in shame.

At first I did not see the connection with this thread and the Bulls, but of course:
1) Big hole in ground.
2) Long stalled developments
3) Lack of money
4) Blatant conflicts of interest!

After 40 years I was thinking of transfering my allegiance to "Utopian Unicorns" but apparently they in in deep trouble for spear tackles!

Well, off topic threads don't really [ineed[/i to be connected to the Bulls, but I like your link!!

Are the T&A on this (via vbfg) www.cityoffilm.co.uk/city-of-fil ... is-coming/

Are the T&A on this (via vbfg) www.cityoffilm.co.uk/city-of-fil ... is-coming/

t.co/gW6fBjLk No mention of your massive conflict of interest, Perry Austin-Clarke, you double-barrelled bell-end.

t.co/gW6fBjLk No mention of your massive conflict of interest, Perry Austin-Clarke, you double-barrelled bell-end.