Notts Black Arrow: Mainstream Media’s March Massing (in Nottingham)

What is it about the national press and Nottingham at the moment? Seems like we are fast becoming a barometer of England’s economic woes and hopes.

Firstly, on March 20th, Dragons’ Den presenter Evan Davis stitches together a ‘Budget Special’ for his day job, the Radio 4 Today Programme. He makes a few 10 mins trips in and out from the BBC roundabout presumably after a night at Jurys Inn on London Road, visiting the delayed waterfront development and the site of the defunct Eastside project. Interviews about innovation at BioCity and the creative industries are added and an interview with Jon Collins is edited in about private business prospects in City. “Judging from your face it’s quite a struggle”, Davis comments. (No Evan, he always looks like that). On the same day Channel 4 anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy spends an afternoon in a pub in Arnold “to see if George Osborne can smash the brains in of the zombie economy.”

Then two days ago we had ITV in St Ann’s in an attempt to find out the effect of the Bedroom Tax on residents where Housing Benefit will be cut for non-private rented houses with ‘unoccupied’ rooms.

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