 Len Tingle conducts an Outside Broadcast |
Political argument and discussion happen in far more places than Westminster or Brussels ...
Every week presenter Cathy Killick and the Politics Show team for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands prove the point.
The programme has tackled a huge range of local issues from whether we have got enough old people's homes to whether the local economy works.
Every week, Political Editor Len Tingle takes the programme's distinctive satellite broadcasting truck on the road and broadcasts live from where the issues are actually happening.
He has discussed crime concerns in a pensioner's bungalow; the future of travelling circuses from a big top and the problems faced by impoverished football clubs from the touchline.
 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Correspondent Mark Denten |
Pubs, village halls and social clubs have been turned into temporary studios to give local people a chance to air their views.
And the investigation of how political decisions effect the day-to-day lives of the six million people who live in our region does not stop there.
Every week, reporter Mark Denten meets families and individuals from the region who rely on publicly-funded or regulated services and institutions.
Are they getting what they ought to receive? If not, what will it take to make things better?
 Cathy Killick |
Cathy Killick is the presenter of The Politics Show Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. This is a world away from her first job as an ice cream van driver round the industrial estates of Fleet.
Known as Miss Whippy by her regulars, she quickly tired of hearing 'The Teddy Bear's Picnic' resounding from the van roof and started her journalistic career training as a reporter on the Camberley News, part of The Guardian Group Newspapers.
Training
After six months, Cathy was selected for the BBC's Trainee Reporter Scheme and was sent from Jersey to Cumbria to work on BBC local radio stations, learning how to be a broadcast reporter.
A job at BBC Radio Sheffield led to a stint at Look North where she became staff reporter, covering North Yorkshire, where she spent her school days.
Home ground
Attachments as Health Correspondent and News Correspondent in the BBC's London newsroom followed, but she returned to Yorkshire to start a family, and continued to work as a reporter and presenter part time.
She now looks after her daughter for part of the week and works the remainder.
In any free time she gets, Cathy enjoys reading, skiing, cooking and gardening.
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