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Peter Holland departs the Beeb | Print |  Email to a friend
Friday, 13 April 2007
Peter Holland, one of the regional news programme North West Tonight's longest-serving reporters, has unexpectedly left the BBC.

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BBC bosses in Manchester announced his departure in a recent internal email but gave no explanation as to the reasons for his departure.

He joined the BBC as a regional reporter in 1988 having previously worked on the Lancashire Evening Post and the Liverpool Echo.

His primary role with NWT was covering news stories from Lancashire and the South Lakes. He was the  first TV reporter at the scene of the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy of 2004.

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 1 By Zed, on 16-04-2007 14:54
Can't anyone be bothered to tell us all where he's gone or what he's doing?
 2 By twangy, on 18-04-2007 17:00
my boyfriend once threw a chicken leg at Peter Holland
 3 By Kees, on 19-04-2007 13:37
I guess they have run out of married women in the North West.
 4 By Zed, on 20-04-2007 11:12
Ooh I say! Has he been a naughty chap?
 5 By Kees, on 20-04-2007 11:51
You could say that... twangys boyfriend should have smacked him in the nose and pushed the chicken leg up where the sun doesn't shine!
 6 By Debtcollector, on 27-04-2007 23:44
There are at least a dozen good reasons why the BBC seemingly want to distance themselves from any explanation into the unexplained departure of Mr Holland. In the meantime, Alison Brown is probably busy trying to arrange a job for him on Radio Lancashire.
 7 By Zed, on 28-04-2007 10:27
A dozen good reasons? Just the two or three most interesting ones will do, or we'll be here all week.
 8 By pinkribbon, on 29-04-2007 23:33
For anyone actually interested, I agree with the above comment that a good source of information on both his whereabouts and the reasons for his departure from the BBC would be Alison Brown at BBC Radio Lancashire, Darwen Street, Blackburn BB2 2EA (01254) 262411.
 9 By joanna, on 02-05-2007 22:55
omg peter holland is my relative. my grannies cousin or summat! CAN YA BELIEVE IT!!!?
 10 By regretful, on 04-05-2007 16:08
I feel I have just cause and reason to comment on the subject of Mr. Hollands sudden departure. 
 
(EDITED OUT) 
 
This is a long time overdue... 
 
My sincere apologies to Mrs. Holland. 
 

 11 By Mr X, on 04-05-2007 15:49
Jesus wept. Anyone heard a term known as "discretion"?
 12 By regretful, on 04-05-2007 16:15
ok... point taken
 13 By A reader, on 04-05-2007 16:19
Thank you regretful - hard but sensible decision
 14 By One who knows, on 06-05-2007 17:16
Peter has played away more times than every team in the premiere league. Does that give you a clue as to his departure.
 15 By Nimrod, on 07-05-2007 02:22
One who knows - are you trying to say he was first on the scene at more than one "cockling disaster" in the Lancashire area?
 16 By one who has the right to know, on 08-05-2007 11:54
Would the person who decided to edit regretfuls comments (under the freedom of information act) please inform me how I can get a copy of what was cut out?
 17 By Hil Hunt, on 08-05-2007 18:15
Elevating stuff, fellow posters. Just remind me... where's the public interest in running this nudge-wink tittle-tattle? Which of your private peccadillos would deserve the same lip-smacking scrutiny? And how would you feel if it was applied to you?
 18 By canton, on 10-05-2007 14:34
Mr Holland worked as a reporter for the BBC, and as such would have enjoyed all the privileges and cudos of which such a position entails.  
We all of us pay for these blessed people to be on our screeens every day, therefore their private lives are open to scrutiny - (like it or not - thats the way it is).  
 
I would suggest that Mr Holland used his elevated 'minor celebrity' position for his own ends - hurting many innocent people along the way - and that the poor man has just met his nemesis thats all.
 19 By Hil Hunt, on 10-05-2007 15:26
Open to scrutiny? Er, no, they're not. Accepting a job with the Beeb does not mean sacrificing your right to a private life any more than working in Social Security or the Inland Revenue. If Holland has done something illegal, fair enough, and tell the police while you're at it. If he has not, leave him be (and learn to spell kudos).
 20 By canton, on 10-05-2007 16:31
As English is not my first language, I apologise for my spelling of Kudos, and maybe 'open to scrutiny' was the wrong choice of words.  
 
'Worthy of respect" may be more appropriate, and also people who work at the Inland Revenue or Social Security do not end up on forums such as these, and also do not appear on our TV screeens every day. 
 
I reiterate that I feel that the poor man has met his nemesis, and that there will be a great many people who are relieved this has happened.
 21 By anonymous, on 04-07-2007 18:14
saw him at an interview for a press officer job
 22 By Adam, on 04-10-2007 22:53
I believe he is trying to set up a weekly newspaper for the (very) right-wing For Darwen political party, which has some councillors on Blackburn Council.
 23 By Twangy, on 30-10-2007 18:03
My boyfriend was clearly right to chuck that chicken leg at Peter Holland then!
 24 By Nerd, on 30-10-2007 20:08
saw him at a website development course
 25 By One who knows, on 31-10-2007 14:07
Is it true that Peter Holland been for an interview on this new talk station in Liverpool? I heard he had a job there, not on a website course.
 26 By Leo Sayers, on 04-01-2008 15:23
It says on Liverpool Confidential that Peter Holland is working in a fish and chip shop in Liverpool. So this makes him like Elvis then?
 27 By Kirk Dale, on 05-01-2008 11:05
If you're ever in Darwen, pick up a copy of The Darrener, a new paid-for weekly. It's so bad it's good. I think it will become a cult. Peter Holland is their editorial consultant.
 28 By Leo Sayers, on 05-01-2008 11:54
I too have got a copy of the Darrener. It is magnificent. The Framley Examiner could learn a lot from this.
 29 By Twangy, on 08-02-2008 17:41
My boyfriend, the one who threw the chicken leg that time, gave me a copy of the Darrener on Christmas night. No really! Not many girls get that...
 30 By bystander, on 15-04-2008 17:58
It is still amazing that no light has been shed on Holland's very suspicious and unexplained departure from the BBC. Somebody out there must know the truth? If you read this Peter...perhaps you might like to set the record straight through an honest explanation, especially as you considered yourself to be such a longstanding and apparently respected journalistic legend with a pedigree built on The Morcambe cockling disaster....and the Morecambe cockling disaster...and the Morecambe cockling disaster....and oh yes and the 'and finally' the cat up a tree story!
 31 By ANON website, on 24-04-2008 15:18
All these sad little people, writing sad little remarks with nothing better to do with there pathetic little lives are simply jealous. Get a life
 32 By bystander, on 25-04-2008 22:39
Its nice to see that Peter appears to be alive and well and now writing under ANON. Such journalistic skills put the Darriner in safe hands.
 33 By bystander, on 26-04-2008 20:01
I wonder how long it will be before Peter gets a job at Radio Lancashire. I think the powers that be at the BBC should take note of this prophesy and take suitable steps to determine whether this is considered suitable behaviour. Any comments from other BBC colleagues would be interesting.

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