With all the cold weather I thought it might be useful to have a little look at the gritting information available for where I live. I’ve taken a PDF file on Brighton and Hove’s website and made it into a spreadsheet, which you can see here. I’ve also made the spreadsheet into a kind of [...]
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Gritting bins in Brighton
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on November 29, 2010
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/brighton/gritting-bins-in-brighton/
How to make news playable
As part of my online journalism studies I have to come up with an ‘experimental portfolio’. This, according to Paul Bradshaw, our course leader, is to explore around the fringes of online journalism knowledge. As a former sub editor, I’ve never been comfortable with uncertainty. I like things to have been written down many, many [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 11, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/how-to-make-news-playable/
Ten things Birmingham can do to welcome the pirates
In a speech made today to an audience of Birmingham’s top business folk at the Big Debate, future seer and Financial Times super guru, Charles Leadbeater, encouraged Birmingham to become a home for pirates. Sadly, Leadbeater wasn’t suggesting repatriating the Somali sailors who’ve been wreaking havoc in the Gulf of Aden for the last couple [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on November 2, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/birmingham/ten-things-birmingham-can-do-to-welcome-the-pirates/
Moseley Road Baths
Last night I went to Moseley Road Baths for the first time. The swimming pool complex, opened on October 30, 1907, is the only Grade II-listed baths in England and an extraordinary example of Edwardian public architecture. I’ll be going back there again on Saturday, for the Memories and Memorabilia day, where I hope to [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on October 30, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/birmingham-swimming-pools/moseley-road-baths/
Wyndley Leisure Centre
I’ve not had a chance to swim at Wyndley Leisure Centre, but regular swimmer Dominic Riordan was kind enough to send me his thoughts on the bath. I’ve included them below: “Wyndley’s pretty good: it’s recently been refurbished , although it doesn’t seem like much has been done. The lanes are quite tight, and it’s [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on October 30, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/birmingham-swimming-pools/wyndley-leisure-centre/
The state of Birmingham’s swimming pools
On Saturday, supporters of the Moseley Road Baths will gather at the Grade II-listed buildings for a special event celebrating Birmingham’s most well-known, but at-risk swimming pool. Moseley Road Baths, Memories and Memorabilia – which hopes to offer all comers an insight into this unique building – couldn’t come at a more crucial time for [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on October 26, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/birmingham/swimming-pools-in-birmingham/
A hyperlocal news service for Brum
As part of my studies for an MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University I’m involved in a new project to run a hyperlocal news site for Birmingham. Ahh. So here we go. I’m going to try to explain our idea in 150 words… Imagine a website for central Birmingham. You go to the [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on August 25, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/hello-world/