Channel 4 presenter George Clarke slammed over pronunciation of Yorkshire town

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Yorkshire residents were furious after a Channel 4 presenter repeatedly mispronounced the name of an East Yorkshire town in his renovation show last night.

George Clarke featured a property in Hessle, near Hull, on his show George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations yesterday, that had hit a number of misfortunes because of the pandemic and a break-up.

The renovation, which concerned a run-down stable block at Thorncliffe House, had been bought by 70-year-old Bernie from Bristol for £125,000 in April 2019.

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From his home 200 miles away, the retired solicitor had tasked his son-in-law Andrew with managing the project, which he originally wanted completed in seven months on a £150,000 budget.

However, Channel 4 viewers were more focused on how George Clarke pronounced Hessle and kept mentioning ‘Humberside’.

George, who was born in the North East, has since responded to viewers' complaints.

As HullLive reports, George was presenting one of the more dramatic episodes of his Remarkable Renovations that included a love split and a global pandemic but it was his pronunciation and region names that caught the attention of more than one viewer in East Yorkshire.

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One Twitter user said: “I don’t wish to be pedantic but George Clarke simply must stop pronouncing it ‘Hessssl’ and saying Humberside.”

Another said: “Can someone please teach George Clarke how to pronounce Hessle properly.”

The presenter responded with sympathy referencing the fact he gets called a Geordie when he’s actually from the Sunderland area.

The episode itself has enough drama despite its serene beginnings.

The stables were built at the turn of the 20th century to serve Thorncliffe House, a large villa owned by a wealthy fruit importer, which were in a state and earmarked for demolition.

Bernie’s daughter Jess and her family had a home in the grounds which was his reason for moving away from his Bristol home, to be closer to family.

Bernie persuaded the owner to sell him the property, he said: ‘When we spoke and I said “I just love it as it is, I don’t even want to extend it, I want to keep it as it is”, I think that made it possible."

During his first visit to the site, presenter George Clarke said: “It’s fantastic, all in its original position, you’ve got all the little details and features everywhere, it’s a brilliant space, it really is.”

The two-storey stable had a basic structure with the ground floor dominated by the stable room and the saddle room and a small working area in between with a hearth. The second storey loft was one big open space.

Bernie converted the ground floor into a living area and kitchen, master bedroom and en-suite bathroom and then turned the second storey into three rooms - a guest bedroom, a shower room, and a living room.

Complicating the major project was the fact that Bernie lived around 200-miles away in Bristol so his son-in-law Andrew acted as project manager. In addition, Bernie split from his partner Jenni during the project.

The building work ended up taking around two-and-a-half years to complete as Bernie refused to budge from his vision of upcycling old materials including Edwardian toilets and cisterns in the horse stalls.

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Teenage mob who stabbed rival in gang-on-gang attack walk away with unpaid work

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A crown court judge has hit out at the CPS after three teenagers who “deserved” to be locked up over a gang-on-gang attack with weapons were given unpaid work.

Teens Nathan Cockayne, Ryan Hallam and Lewis Parker were part of what Judge David Dixon described as a “mob” or “pack” who attacked two rivals in Sheffield in 2018 and left them with stab wounds to their legs.

Judge Dixon told all three of them that having looked at the case without knowing about the charges they faced, he was considering substantial prison sentences for their roles.

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During their sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court he said: “This was gang-on-gang activity where knives were used to cause standard gang-type injuries - stabbing to the leg.

“The reason these stab wounds are inflicted is because they run the risk of causing severe harm.

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“The quantity of arteries and important veins running through the thigh means if you stab somebody in the leg, there is a good possibility they may well die.”

Judge Dixon added he was somewhat surprised to see the teens originally charged with robbery rather than any grievous bodily harm offences.

He added that all three ran the risk of “many years” in jail even at their young ages.

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Hallam, 19, and Walker, 18, were handed community orders with unpaid work elements while Cockayne, 19, will find out his fate on September 8 owing to the need for pre-sentence reports.

Judge Dixon added: “When I read the papers without looking at the charges, even at your ages, I was considering years because that is what you all deserve. But because of the crown’s approach, that is not going to happen.”

He also said that the CPS had “yet again failed to provide appropriate information” including the harm caused by the stabbings during the street brawl and any long-term consequences.

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Judge Dixon said the offence of affray that all three had admitted was due to the complainant’s failure to turn up as well as three failings on the part of the CPS - their failure in not making the complainant turn up, their failure to charge the three teens appropriately and their failure to get the evidence against them.

Hallam, of Beck Road, Sheffield, was handed an 18-month community order and must carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

Parker, of Bellhouse Road, Sheffield, was given a community order for the same duration but must carry out 40 hours of unpaid work and 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

Cockayne, of Keppel Road, Sheffield, will be sentenced on September 8.

All three admitted one count of affray on the basis that they were not the ones carrying the weapons.

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