Special Bradford Film Festival cake to go to charities (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Special Bradford Film Festival cake to go to charities

10:20am Thursday 11th March 2010 in

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Chefs at the National Media Museum are making a giant cake for Bradford’s City of Film celebrations.

The massive orange sponge will spell out the word ‘Bradford’ with each edible letter measuring around 1m high and 60cm wide.

Ingredients used in the cake mix include 27,200 kg of sugar, 32,800 kg of self-raising four, 14,000 kg of margarine, 64 dozen eggs, 1760 kg of golden syrup and 320 grams of baking power.

Peel and juice from 40 oranges as well as 6kg of apricot jam and 60kg of regal icing have also been used. The B-shaped part of the cake will be served at a civic reception to launch City of Film on Thursday, March 18. The other seven letters are to be given to charities.

Anthony Hegney, general manager of Digby Trout Restaurants, which runs the museum’s catering service, where the cake is being made, said: “I would like Telegraph & Argus readers to name charities which should receive the rest of the cake.

“I’m giving the ‘O’ part of it to Overgate Hospice as it’s a charity close to my heart because my dad’s staying there but I need help deciding where the other six letters should go.

“I wanted a novel way of celebrating Bradford becoming the first City of Film. The charities can use the cake as they wish for their staff, visitors, patients or users. Each letter will serve around 100 portions.”

To nominate a charity, send an e-mail to anthony.hegney@ nationalmediamuseum.org.uk, with the reason why, by Tuesday, March 16.

Other events to celebrate the launch of City of Film will be held throughout the following weekend and include screening opportunities at Bradford Playhouse, a ‘pop-up’ free cinema in an empty shop in Centenary Square and a family fun day at the National Media Museum.

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ItchyBungle says...
12:55pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Will poor Hannah be out of a job once this blasted film festival is over? It seems that she only reports on this these days. I would say the news relating to - but there is nothing of newsworthy value in this story.
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I suppose it beats reporting on broken brain covers and when the paint needs re-covering on the sign for the T&As local pub. I can imagine in the week or so left until the festival begins it will get worse - reports of how one person has struggled to attend the event following treatment for something that many other people are having - or how local businesses have been boosted by the event or some local 'inspirational' story that will make you want to vomit as it is written from a completely biased point of view.
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Maybe Hannah will move on after this to report on other pointless local events. Maybe she will do nothing but cover things like the Mela, Wrose carnival, the bus drivers annual knees-up, the constant sale that seems to be at sofa stores and the big event that occurs every year in Bradford... oh wait there isn't one.
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This is nothing personal against Hannah, I am sure she is a skilled journalist and is dedicated to uncovering the truth, it is just a shame that the T&A waste so many column inches every day, week, month, year to reporting on stories over and over again that has little or no news content. Do the citizens of Bradford (and wider) really need to know about a cake that is being built (can it be baked?) and listing all the ingredients? The news story would come if they were doing it for a good cause or someone drown in the icing mix, not simply someone making a large cake.
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Maybe the T&A could actually do some investigation as part of their reporting. Currently the T&A pretty much report on whatever a PR company/communicatio
ns department tells them to print and this devalues the news and makes the media nothing more than a whore to the main businesses it reports on.
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Sorry for the long rant but it feels better. If this is deleted from this page then it is then more evidence to prove that I am right!!

Will poor Hannah be out of a job once this blasted film festival is over? It seems that she only reports on this these days. I would say the news relating to - but there is nothing of newsworthy value in this story. . I suppose it beats reporting on broken brain covers and when the paint needs re-covering on the sign for the T&As local pub. I can imagine in the week or so left until the festival begins it will get worse - reports of how one person has struggled to attend the event following treatment for something that many other people are having - or how local businesses have been boosted by the event or some local 'inspirational' story that will make you want to vomit as it is written from a completely biased point of view. . Maybe Hannah will move on after this to report on other pointless local events. Maybe she will do nothing but cover things like the Mela, Wrose carnival, the bus drivers annual knees-up, the constant sale that seems to be at sofa stores and the big event that occurs every year in Bradford... oh wait there isn't one. . This is nothing personal against Hannah, I am sure she is a skilled journalist and is dedicated to uncovering the truth, it is just a shame that the T&A waste so many column inches every day, week, month, year to reporting on stories over and over again that has little or no news content. Do the citizens of Bradford (and wider) really need to know about a cake that is being built (can it be baked?) and listing all the ingredients? The news story would come if they were doing it for a good cause or someone drown in the icing mix, not simply someone making a large cake. . Maybe the T&A could actually do some investigation as part of their reporting. Currently the T&A pretty much report on whatever a PR company/communicatio ns department tells them to print and this devalues the news and makes the media nothing more than a whore to the main businesses it reports on. . Sorry for the long rant but it feels better. If this is deleted from this page then it is then more evidence to prove that I am right!! ItchyBungle