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Nick Owen supporting “26 Miles”

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I used to work closely with Nick Owen for 17 years! He’s one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of working with and in real life is as warm and friendly as he appears on TV.

Yes, that was his silhouette in my previous post (as if you didn’t know), but I thought I’d add a bit of “cheese” of the variety that used to be served at tea time on BBC regional news programmes….after all, Nick became the main presenter for Midlands Today the BBC regional TV news in the Midlands just a few years before I started at Pebble Mill.

Here’s a snap of the 2 of us having our picture taken by Cristian at the Birmingham BBC studios.

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and this is a snap of me on a snowy day working for BBC news when I worked with Nick –

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I never thought I’d get something terrible like MND. In fact, like a lot of people, I’d hardly heard of it – Just goes to show it can happen to anyone….

Keep coming back, I might just give away a few secrets of behind the scenes life at Midlands Today and BBC News……perhaps I could auction a few saucy secrets to raise cash for this campaign????hmmmm good thought 😉

Pre – photo shoot at the BBC

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26miles4mndTomorrow Cristian and I will be taking more portraits for the 26 Miles project – The first will be of a fantastic lady who runs a Facebook support group for one of the rarer forms of MND. After that, we’ll be visiting the BBC where we will be meeting and photographing a “national treasure” (well I think he is!) as well as some other personalities. At the moment I can’t reveal who, but I promise it will be worth the wait to find out.

I’ll take some pictures of Cristian setting up and working, before I have to get in front of the camera myself! We’ll be publishing some of those photos on our Facebook page, Twitter and here in the next few days.

Hopefully it will be interesting to see “behind the scenes” as we create the portraits that will make up the 26 we will publish in the days leading up to Cristian’s marathon!

Our photos of celebrities and other public figures will be published before the others – on here and Facebook and Twitter – so keep visiting to make sure you don’t miss any.

We’ll also be launching this site, our Just Giving page and our campaign “officially” in the next few days (in the meantime, you can still donate here) – so watch this space!

Thanks

Miles 🙂