Category:News;
North
East & Cumbria TV
Date: 29.09.2004
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Leading players in the campaigns
for and against a North East regional assembly will go head to head
in a televised debate on BBC ONE and News 24 to be shown across the
country.
The 40-minute programme, to be presented by BBC Breakfast presenter
Dermot Murnaghan from Durham, will be broadcast in October at
around the same time that voters in the North East of England receive
their postal ballot papers.
The North East is the only English region to vote on whether to have
a regional assembly after the Government postponed similar votes for
the Yorkshire and North West regions.
Dermot Murnaghan says: "How we are governed and by whom is important
for everybody and the referendum devolution debate we are holding in
Durham is an example of how the BBC can and should become a platform
for debate and discussion within the community."
The issues surrounding the subject of devolution in the English regions
will be debated with a panel chaired by Dermot Murnaghan and an invited
audience from the arts, business, political, health, sport and voluntary
sectors across the North East.
The programme is being recorded at a town hall, in the ancient city
of Durham, that is 154 years old and will be broadcast on BBC ONE in
the North East & Cumbria region at 10.55pm after Panorama on Sunday
17 October 2004.
It will also be shown across the UK on BBC News 24 at 11.15pm on the
same night.
The televised referendum debate is a Triple Echo production for BBC
North East & Cumbria.
