Freeview service breaks: 27/02/2013

Waltham transmitter mastFreeview in the East Midlands (WALTHAM) will be subject to breaks in service overnight tonight into the early hours of Wednesday 27th February 2013, according to Digital UK.

00:01-06:00 27/02/2013
All Freeview services liable to be affected.

More information can be found at www.a516digital.com/2013/02/freeview-service-breaks-27022013.html.

 

Balloons fill the sky as Laurie Mills is remembered

The skies around Ketton were filled with yellow balloons on Tuesday as school pupils remembered a youngster who died a year ago.

Ketton Primary School held the balloon release to mark a year since six-year-old Laurie Mills and his grandmother Dawn Mullany drowned in a lake.

Read more from the Stamford Mercury website.

Just been posting photos from our archives : 11-02-2013

Here is a list of the galleries we have added new images too.

Willoughby Arms Quiz Report : 05/02/2013

It was a bitterly cold windy evening, six teams ventured out to take part in the quiz.

We are always mindful that our quizzers come from a wide range of ages so this month we wanted to shake things up a little bit.

For the picture round we had Dingbats; the regular music round was a bit of a grueller with two tracks by the same artist being played simultaneously (not as easy as some might think) ranging from Kate Bush, The Sweet and Elton John to the Beach Boys and Bay City Rollers. We even had a round dedicated to Harry Potter; a member of one of the teams seemed shocked and said “a whole round?”  Harry has been around for a few years now so why not?

It’s surprising the amount of useless trivia we remember and some of our quizzers now know that dactylion is the name for the tip of the middle finger, Robert LeRoy Parker was Butch Cassidy and the dot on a lower case i or j for that matter is called a tittle.

At the end of the evening third place went to The Lincs Effect with 105 points, in second place United Staits with 106 points but congratulations this month go to Nearly Men with 136 points (for the record they would still have won without the points from the Harry Potter round).

score sheet (05/02/2013)

Thanks to you all for turning up and taking part, to those who couldn’t make it we hope to see you next time, the date for next month’s quiz is Tuesday 5th March.

East Midlands Freeview Retune Date revealed

Waltham transmitter mastViewers in the East Midlands have today been informed when some Freeview channels will be moving frequencies in order to make way for new 4G mobile services launching later this year.

Digital UK, the organisation overseeing the changes, confirmed that most viewers receiving Freeview in the East Midlands will need to retune their receivers on the Wednesday 29th May 2013 in order to continue watching BBC One East Midlands on Freeview alongside BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC/CBeebies plus the BBC News Channel and BBC Parliamant.

More information can be found at www.a516digital.com/2013/02/east-midlands-to-retune-freeview-on.html.