{"id":572,"date":"2018-05-10T12:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:09:09","slug":"ashington-blyth-tyne-re-opening-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/ashington-blyth-tyne-re-opening-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashington Blyth &#038; Tyne Re-Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did a brief interview with Channel 4 News on the Ashington Blyth &amp; Tyne re-opening. The feature was broadcast today. If you missed it you can see at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/its-definitely-a-town-caught-up-in-the-past-how-sluggish-growth-is-affecting-one-former-mining-town\">https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/its-definitely-a-town-caught-up-in-the-past-how-sluggish-growth-is-affecting-one-former-mining-town<\/a>. You\u2019ll have to wait almost until the end of the 5-minute clip for my brief contribution. Locals will also observe those shots actually including a train or a signal are at Bedlington, rather than Ashington, but the interview with me was definitely on the southbound platform at Ashington station, and it is good for Ashington as a whole to be featured by Channel 4 news in this way. Our thanks to SENRUG member Sally Millner who kicked the whole thing off by raising the case for the re-opening during the Chief Economist to the Bank of England\u2019s visit to Ashington last month. It was the subsequent entry on his blog (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/events\/2018\/february\/town-hall-ashington\">https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/events\/2018\/february\/town-hall-ashington<\/a>) that came to the attention of Channel 4. When the Chief Economist of the Bank of England says that his hunch is that the economic benefits of re-opening the railway line would be \u201cwhopper\u201d we can perhaps conclude our campaign is getting somewhere. This evening\u2019s feature on Ashington was part of a wider piece including an interview with the Governor of the Bank of England on economic policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did a brief interview with Channel 4 News on the Ashington Blyth &amp; Tyne re-opening. The feature was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}