Burnsy

See he is leaving BBC Radio Humberside due to cuts. Real shame as enjoyed listening to him. With the Telewag a pale shadow of what it once was, and people like Burnsy getting the chop, it's not good for us fans to find out what's really going on.

If no real press, Alex May would be on board with JF and you just end up with no one really being held to account.

Shame what's happening, especially at the BBC when seems plenty of other bits of fat to trim there

Sorry to hear that, I thought he was very good. Bored of paying for the TV licence. Time to stop TV tax I think , happy to pay for news but not drivel like Shearer and co.

Wow, sad news that. Don't always agree with him but he's been on Humberside as long as I can remember, proper end of an era stuff this. There'll be no decent local BBC coverage unless you live in London/Manchester before long.

Quoted from Zmariner

Sorry to hear that, I thought he was very good. Bored of paying for the TV licence. Time to stop TV tax I think , happy to pay for news but not drivel like Shearer and co.

You do realise you already pay and don't have a choice about subsiding all commercial TV channels, whether or not you watch or subscribe to them, by virtue of tv advertising costs that are added to nearly every product you buy?

Usual bbc trick of cuts followed by reasons why the service will be so much better. No.Never is.

Absolutely disgusting what the've done to the BBC over the last decade or so. Local News and Radio was one of the few remaining worthwhile things about the licence fee, but now they're gutting that as well. Local journalism is on its bottom, so we can just expect more and more decline, nepotism and corruption to go on unexposed. It's mad to me that a load of BBC HR dickheads have decided axing someone like David Burns who epitomises what local radio is all about is in the best interests of anyone except bent politicians - it's certainly not a decision anyone in the general public with links to Humberside is happy about judging by the responses to his tweet.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Absolutely disgusting what the've done to the BBC over the last decade or so. Local News and Radio was one of the few remaining worthwhile things about the licence fee, but now they're gutting that as well. Local journalism is on its bottom, so we can just expect more and more decline, nepotism and corruption to go on unexposed. It's mad to me that a load of BBC HR dickheads have decided axing someone like David Burns who epitomises what local radio is all about is in the best interests of anyone except bent politicians - it's certainly not a decision anyone in the general public with links to Humberside is happy about judging by the responses to his tweet.

They'll get their bonuses for making such decisions just like the people at the bank that nearly went under got theirs.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Absolutely disgusting what the've done to the BBC over the last decade or so. Local News and Radio was one of the few remaining worthwhile things about the licence fee, but now they're gutting that as well. Local journalism is on its bottom, so we can just expect more and more decline, nepotism and corruption to go on unexposed. It's mad to me that a load of BBC HR dickheads have decided axing someone like David Burns who epitomises what local radio is all about is in the best interests of anyone except bent politicians - it's certainly not a decision anyone in the general public with links to Humberside is happy about judging by the responses to his tweet.

I have always liked Burnsey even though he's a Town fan who covers Hull you can tell he cares about The Tagers , us and our neighbours .

His programme is half decent to , it always made me laugh when he had our former custodian on ; he talked rings around him (you could argue that was never hard ) and i always remember when he asked JF  (about the new stadium ) 'so how are you planning on funding it fella ?' and our Johns answer was 'because we will ! '
That pretty much summed up the 20 year stadium pipe dream.

Hopefully Big Burnsy gets fixed up somewhere else .

Morale at bbc local radio is on its bottom. Local radio journalists, including those with long service, are having to reapply for their existing jobs/go up against colleagues for a fewer pool of jobs, and are being given 60 seconds in an interview to state 'why we should save your job".

It's being likened to the Hunger Games, pitting everyone against one another.

Disgraceful, he is my one contact with Grimsby keeping me, as an exile, informed about the place we all love and know!