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Topic ID 588
06/04/2005 by Ewoowar
Come on......isn't the county town important?
Looking at the Beeb site it semms that we are not that important.
Hertfordshire as a county is bundled together with Beds and Bucks whereas the majority of counties are treated individually.
And when you get to the Beds, Herts and Bucks page what reference is there of the county town?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/in_pictures/360_panoramas/herts/
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Reply ID 5807
07/04/2005 by Kate
We share a BBC local radio station with those counties as well, where as many counties of a similar size get their own. And we are rarely covered by local television news, coming under BBC London.
It's a pet grudge of mine!
Reply ID 5810
07/04/2005 by sloopjohnb
I've seen some well known internet portals such as Yahoo give the county town as St Albans or Stevenage which really gets up my nose.[:
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Also beaurocratic decisions that lump us with Suffolk in the East of England. One of the reasons that I like Hertbeat fm is because it actually concentrates on Hertford and its own area and not like BBC Three Counties as an afterthought.
More and more people say that we should get a higher profile because we are the county town; such as with Xmas lights. Hear hear!![^]
Reply ID 5811
07/04/2005 by carlos fandango
After Hertford RFC won a national competition (with the final at Twickenham) I looked on the 3 counties site...not a murmur. it was all about Watford FC and Wasps. I pointed out their error by email and 2 years later I'm still waiting for a reply.
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