 | | Sorry Harry Potter fans, Ian's all grown up now. |
Age: 53
Favourite rock band: The Temperance Seven
Favourite Gracie Fields song: When I Took My Harp to a Party
Favourite nosh: Bilberries, blackberries, apples, bilberries, bilberries, apples, blackberries and pastry Local hero: Matthias Snook-Wilmton of Wideopen (inventor of the double adjustable gusset).
Favourite tree: Ginkgo (from which I get my nickname)  Hates: People who do "high-fives", rap music, people who say "no problem" (say "nee bother"), people who make "To Do" Lists all the time, focus groups, celery and turnips.  | | Ian Robinson |
Favourite view: My bed
Hates: People who do "high-fives", rap music, people who say "no problem" (say "nee bother"), people who make "To Do" Lists all the time, focus groups, celery and turnips.
Likes: Spital Tongues, the Isle of Arran, hedgehogs, walruses, seahorses, aspidistras and lithops. Back to top^
 | | Paul Wappat during the evacuation |
Age: 40 Favourite Place: Scarborough. Fond childhood holiday memories. We didn't get far in those days.
Favourite View: As you approach Bamburgh castle from Seahouses.
First Job: Stores dispatcher with a local clothing firm, oh dear!
Worst Job: The job I nearly got as an undertaker with the CO-OP.
Loves: Music and cars, preferably together.
| The worst job I nearly got was as an undertaker with the CO-OP. | | Paul Wappat |
Hates: People eating burgers in the street whilst text messaging on their mobile.
Loathes: celery and wood lice (damp beatles)
Best Meal: Chinese food with all the trimmings.
Local Hero: George Stephenson, the man that changed the world.
Best Building: Seaton Deleval Hall. Back to top^
 | | Ken learns he'll be a bus driver when he grows up. |
Age: 22
First Job: I worked as a lifeguard when over the summer when I was 16. It was great, I just got paid for sitting on the side of the swimming pool all day.
Favourite View: Watching the sunrise at 6am over the Grand Canyon. It was mid November, absolutely freezing, but immensely worth it when I saw the sun come up over the canyon wall - an amazing site!
Likes: Takeaway food (pizza, chinese, indian, etc.... but not kebab), warm and sunny weather, Billy Connolly (as a comedian) and sleeping in on a weekend (or any day I don't have to be out and working).
| I worked as a lifeguard when over the summer when I was 16. It was great, I just got paid for sitting on the side of the swimming pool all day. | | Ken Fraser |
Dislikes: Inconsiderate drivers, getting up at ridiculously early hours (there's a six o'clock in the MORNING!!), having nothing to do (I like keeping busy).
Best Moment at work: Finally clapping eyes on the bus (and driving it) after months of wait. Back to top^
 | | 1969's bonniest baby |
Age: 34
Likes: Extreme climates - heavy snow, scorching sun ... nothing in between.
Hates: Getting out of bed, early starts, mornings (before 9.00am) in general, people whistling.
Best food: Sausages and mash with onion gravy (vegetarian sausages only)
Worst job: Cleaning the cages in a vet's surgery aged 12. The ferrets operated a dirty protest on behalf of the Ferrets Liberation Army, the mangy rabbits had taken attack training from piranhas, and I still have scars from where a sick owl lodged its talons in my head. Drinking the lambs' milk - complete with sheep's hormones - stored in a milk bottle in the staff fridge cured me of my youthful aspiration to a career as a vet.
| I still have scars from where a sick owl lodged its talons in my head. | | Natasha Lee |
Best job: Working on the BBC Blue Bus ....it even beats serving the pina coladas on a millionaires' yacht in the Bahamas, which my colourful career has encompassed! Back to top^
 | | Steve was way ahead of the 80s New Romantic look. |
Age: Ageless
Worst Job: Working on a battery farm in Lincolnshire, cleaning out after the chickens have gone for soup.
Fact: It's a foolhardy act to walk across a gulley full of sunbaked chicken pooh, even if it looks as though the hardened surface will take the weight of a fully grown teenager.
Favourite Journey: Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire/The M18 out of Scunthorpe.
Best Tune: Kennedy by The Wedding Present.
Local Hero: Mike Mould of Bruvvers Theatre Company, Byker. He takes theatre to places other theatre companies can't reach and carries on despite everything.
Loves: The cows on the town moor and the words 'Radgy' and 'Gadgy', and especially when you see a radgy gadgy cow on the town moor with a dew drop on its nose. The faces of the all-day drinkers of the Raby Pub on Shields Rd.
| I plan to use the bus to take me into town and bring me home on its days off. | | Steve Drayton |
Hates: Time wasted waiting for public transport to arrive. I plan to use the bus to take me into town and bring me home on its days off. I will also sell burgers from it when Westlife are next in town. I will also demand all visitors have the correct change before coming aboard.
Motto: Don't force it, use a bigger hammer.
Life worry: Is shortbread a cake, a bread or a biscuit?
Best Meal: Soup of the day.
Best Place: Runswick Bay, Nth Yorkshire. Back to top^
 | | What a happy chappy! |
Age: 24
Born: Newcastle
Shoe size: 10
Favourite sandwich filling: Cheese savoury
1st gig: Don McLean at the Harrogate Conference Centre
Highest Pacman score: 54,000
Best holiday: Camping in America this summer
Most likely to be found: Enjoying a pint in the Gosforth Hotel
Favourite Minogue sister: Kylie
Claim to fame: I once gave Mo Mowlam a massage Back to top^
 | | Young Matthew was proud to own the world's shortest scarf. |
Age: 30 First Job: Kitchen porter at a seaside hotel. On my first day I knocked a dish of cauliflower onto the greasy floor. The chef just handed me a shovel and said, "Don't worry. They'll think the grit is black pepper".
Worst Job: See above
Best View: From Wolsingham Park Moor you can see a solitary copse on the skyline called the Elephant Trees. It is stark and beautiful and never fails to impress.
| The chef just handed me a shovel and said, "Don't worry. They'll think the grit is black pepper". | | Matthew Barraclough |
Local Heroes: Collingwood for doing the hard work of winning Trafalgar when Nelson was busily engaged kissing Hardy; Parsons for the brilliance of Turbinia and his audacity at the Spithead Review; and Stephenson whose workshops were the NASA of his day.
Loves: Sausages
Hates: Fragments of bone in sausages. Back to top^
 | | Golden girl Helen |
Age: 31 First job: English and drama teacher in one of Sheffield's more difficult secondary schools. I lasted two terms. Worst job: Care assistant in a nursing home during an outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea ... need I say more? Best view: Being a Cornish lass, it has to be looking down Porthmeor Beach from the Island in St Ives. Likes: Going out for a fry-up breakfast on a Saturday morning, snuggling up in bed with a really good book, being an adopted Geordie. Dislikes: People who are unfair and intolerant. Back to top^ | 
