Result!

Some of my time is spent dealing with the great issues of the day - human rights, climate change, global terrorism - but occasionally you get a 'result' on something a bit closer to home!

In my local area there are three main league football teams who are followed by local residents - Bristol City, Bristol Rovers and Yeovil Town. In the past the custom of BBC Radio Bristol has been to cover the away matches of each of these teams for fans who could not travel to the matches. Where two of the teams were away together the station was able to split between its Bristol and Somerset frequencies and cover both matches.

However, in early February Radio Bristol created a storm by covering only a Yeovil away game and not the Bristol Rovers away game which happened at the same time, presumably as a cost-saving measure. I subsequently received several angry e-mails and letters from fans and took the issue up with the Director-General of the BBC.

I am pleased to say that he has now responded by saying that "...BBC Radio Bristol has now confirmed that it will provide live coverage of the away games of all three teams in the region, until the end of the current football season". I am sure that this result will be well received by fans of all three clubs in the area!