Whenever the BBC newsreader comes to the end of the national bulletin, he or she signs off with words to the effect..."and now over to the news where you are.."
Wrong. In Buckinghamshire our screens switch to the Beeb's central London newsroom where we hear lots of stories about unsafe tower blocks in south London, stabbings in north London, failing schools in west London and a daily winge about the Olympics in east London.
In fact the BBC has a major blind spot when it comes to Buckinghamshire, even though many of its staff and plenty of its "stars" live here. On radio, there's BBC Berkshire, and there's BBC Oxfordshire, but poor Buckinghamshire is lumped in with BBC Three Counties, based in Luton with a team in Watford, which, not suprisingly, concentrates on Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Rare sorties into Bucks usually stop at Milton Keynes, which is increasingly a law unto itself.
At least Aylesbury has a decent commercial radio station - Mix 96 - which gives a proper news service. In High Wycombe, with a population of over 200,000 in its environs, there isn't even that. It has to be the most poorly served radio/TV town in the country.
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