News at Ten (21 November 1980)

[@andydixon2980]

The beautiful Anna Ford. I can see why my Dad was always keen to watch 'News at Ten'.

[@person.X.]

Y she really is a beauty. 😃

[@newubik2]

:-)))

[@MrGoneTroppo]

Woah. John Lennon is due to be shot in a fortnight?

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Anna Ford. The only reason to watch the news back in 1980.

[@regplasma7906]

Totally , she's at her beauty peak here in 1980.

[@robinking6201]

Same here

[@colmmccabe7223]

Yeah she was quite good looking. I was only 5 in 1980 mind you. This is interesting.

[@colmmccabe7223]

I remember her in later years with BBC late 80s and most of 90s along with Sue Lawley and co.

[@patkearney9320]

Beautiful lady

[@andrewholdaway813]

The glorious days when the news when actually presented us with the news rather than a few minutes of politicised nonsense followed by endless feelgood trivia.

[@peterphilstacey4698]

We're patronised now, awful times to live in

[@frankmcconnellogue3351]

18yearsof age then with not a care in the world,I need transported back there.

[@vinniechudam1835]

British Vietnamese refugee here. Fled Vietnam as a baby with family in a boat to Hong Kong where we stayed for 18 months before Britain 🇬🇧 accepted us. Landed at Gatwick Airport from British Hong Kong in November 1980. Became a citizen in November 1999. Thank you Britiain 🇬🇧

[@jupiter-8405]

Who knows if Peter Sutcliffe watched the News at Ten that night? He was able to go about his work and home life as a seemingly normal person.

[@saturn1returns]

Hammer time! Hammer 🔨

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

He was always out patrolling the red light area on a night

[@jupiter-8405]

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain He didn't! He wasn't that stupid and he'd have been quickly caught if he had been in red light areas every night.

[@duncanholding7636]

Think Roscoe was being tongue in cheek...

[@CatPiss-ls4zb]

Yorkshire police were a bunch of clowns. Probably still are

[@badmattam]

Anna Ford…thinking mans’ tottie ❤️

[@ShahidKhan-ke8fe]

Even the unthinking man's tottie really.

[@JazzFunk22]

And the teen boy tottie I was 15 only time I watch all the news was when Anna was on 😇

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

Sandy Gall the newsreader... STILL alive (As of 3rd October 2022)

[@dominewimbury2039]

He's 95 now

[@JazzFunk22]

Sandy a OG 💯

[@aalexjohna]

Pickled in Scotch, no doubt.

[@barjumbo1969]

Born 1 10 1927. Still, going at 97!

[@ianhalsall-fox]

Job losses and gains. Reminds me of the Victoria Wood sketch where 2000 workers at GK Metals in Paisley are to lose their jobs but the Seabright restaurant in Hove are taking someone on to peel the potatoes.

[@johnrowland3105]

Sends a shiver down your spine doesn't it.

[@davidevans3227]

it does 🙂

[@truthoverlies1820]

Brass Eye reference

[@person.X.]

Those job losses in industry after industry. I remember that very well from the news in the early 80s. The few jobs created in retail and the public sector. This was the era when the UK as an industrialised country started to die.

[@jonjames7328]

I was too young to appreciate the beautiful Anna Ford in 1980. Crickey.

[@albertmccready478]

Nothing about Ireland in the headlines. Must have been a quiet day

[@genevievedolan1288]

So interesting to watch this. The way things change is mostly revealed in ways no one was aware of. The simple graphics, the plain newsroom decor and so many other little things to numerous to mention. I would love to see more of these.

[@501sqn3]

Ahhh the ridiculously pretty Anna Ford 😍🔥, utter class as a newsreader as well 👍

[@JaveyEL6369]

It brought back memories of those two paper mills mentioned near Bury. The Transparent paper mill at Heap Bridge between Bury and Heywood, and the East Lancashire paper mill in Radcliffe, a once major employer in that town, and one of two paper mills at the time, neither standing today, nor the Transparent mill either. 😢

[@robinking6201]

Like most British industry

[@peterthedishwashermanmayne1546]

How do you know the transparent mill isn't still there.

[@tnetroP]

I remember these new stories. It's likely I was watching this exact news program.

[@renegade-master29]

Was born a couple of day's after this aired looking back I'm thinking why did I even bother

[@glpilpi6209]

Three channel TV back then.

[@stevedickson5853]

Some of it a lot better than the crap pushed out these days.

[@BrianJones761-wc4hu]

The news delivered pretty much impartially and without hyperbole. Traits long gone from the MSM.

[@zeddeka]

You just said 'MSM'. That instantly marks you out as a fruitcake.

[@gingercat555]

Notice how well spoken people were back then ... no one walking around with there mobile phone in there hand ... see the early word processors (typewriters) being used ... how did we ever exist without the Internet ... answer = with great ease.

[@zeddeka]

If you hate the internet so much, stop using it then.

[@safirahmed]

The internet was created in the US in 1969. The World Wide Web commonly known as the internet was created in 1989.

[@gingercat555]

@@zeddeka where did I say that I did not like the Internet ?????????????? answer ... NO WHERE ... that's just your assumption, merely pointing out hat the world worked long before the Internet came along.

[@krazytroutcatcher]

JPS cigs at 67p, Phil Daniels pretending to be a Longbridge plant worker, Jacob Rees Mogg’s real father at 12:23. “Britain says she’ll take 90 boat people”............the least said, the better..

[@joridge171]

And George Young is Toby Youngs Dad!

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Do you have News at Ten from the 1990s?

[@johnnyballenatl]

A major television event here in the States happened that November 21, 1980: The “Dallas” episode in which we found out once and for all who shot J.R. Ewing!

[@paperchain1239]

Those were the days Not the rubbish we have now . Sorry, but it's true

[@davidspendlove5900]

Nothing changes.

[@safirahmed]

Sir George Young a role model for Jacob Rees-Mogg and James Prior has a resemblance to Margaret Thatcher.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

What sbout Wigans Thep in Abardare South Wales paper making factory??

[@qed456]

Whwn news was presented in a professional serious way not presented as if everybody was in primary school.

[@hugoboss5895]

Respect to the cousin and his mates for trying to get at the nonce.

[@dominewimbury2039]

Exactly! Poor little lad. I'd want to do the same if he was my relative. RIP little man

[@hugoboss5895]

@@dominewimbury2039same mate.

[@bangtwister]

Pre social media. Lovely 😅. Wonder what GP waiting times were....

[@tsr207]

Cumbernauld - not Cumberland !

[@jamesnicholson2503]

To think 44 years gone.

[@antonymay3799]

Sandy Gall a wonderful presenter

[@safirahmed]

In 2023 average food inflation is now over 50% with some product prices increased in price by 80% over three years and this would have shocked those in 1980.

[@zeddeka]

Not true whatsoever - they'd been through the 70s, which had much higher inflation than now.

[@safirahmed]

@@zeddeka Headline rate of inflation was higher in the 1970s but the cost of living was far lower. Technology prices have fallen greatly but housing costs and utility bills have massively increased.

[@michaelford1124]

"looking for a supersonic upgrade to the harrier" they got it in the end

[@andreedowns4561]

THANK YOU 😊 (PUTNEY BRIDGE ?)

[@edwardoleyba3075]

🎯

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Proper serious old style NaT, the way it SHOULD be.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Nice freshed young faced Sandy Gail, brilliant news caster.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Dr Owen,so he must be s GP.+ And MP??

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Are they air craft carriers to shoot down enemy air craft??

[@andrewholdaway813]

Is Rees-Mogg Sir george young reincarnate

[@jamesmitchell8922]

The US viewing figures could have been higher for the Dallas episode if it had not been for the tragedy.

[@garrywood5345]

Sadly just a couple of weeks before the Assassination of John Lennon 😢

[@chrisredditch]

Anna Ford - Swoon!

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Ah, News At Ten with its proper grown up theme music! Not the toy town sound it is under itv plc!

[@Holeyguagaamoley]

18.8 % pay rise?

[@stevedickson5853]

Anna Ford...Phew , hot 🔥

[@peterphilstacey4698]

Even then the priority was based on American news,

[@chriswaring5565]

ANNA FORD FOUR WHEELS AND A BOARD

[@italianstallion9170]

3 holes and a pulse

[@karpizan]

Sam de Gaulle

[@martynb901]

The news for grown ups. Today if the Home Secretary was mentioned they would flash up pictures behind them of a home and a secretary.

[@Talboy-p4e]

Such a horrible sound Am glad I was just a kid back then Even worse today And we have millions of channels Unbelievable I love u tube Instant choice always Any time ❤ Don't need millions of channels

[@patsyparisi2620]

Strikes wow nothing has changed in 2023

[@rickykilby4672]

Spot the regional accent...oh wait.......

[@sofialadune9351]

Beaucoup on perdu leurs emplois a cet époque!

[@jamesnicholson2503]

3 years is nothing,be out in 18 months .

[@Jimboken1]

Poor 'ol Olive Smelt of West Yorkshire is having unwelcome telephone calls from a chap calling himself Jack. We definitely live in a simulation. Sandy and Anna have so much smaller a role to play in the newscast. They were both class acts.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

I, always looked forward to News At Ten for Big Ben,the clock used to fasnate me,the size of it the clock faces/ diials,I knw it sounds stupid by I have always had a fashion eith Big Ben.

[@Jackie-ji2sj]

YOU HAD WHITE NEWSREADERS? ❤

[@ebakindeji5941]

They still do you idiot. 🙄

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Peter Sutcliffe was to clever for police taking the piss out of them he was,it took them ages to get him,but the law& order was better then.To the absolutely shit law& order now,they laugh going to prison now.

[@safirahmed]

BBC could have had an issue with female newsreaders named Mercedes or Porsche due to potential product placement and brand names but this didn't happen.

[@xSUBIACOx]

Fcul Alastair Stewart. A professional, convicted, serial DRINK DRIVER.

[@rayhoughton8046]

Anna ford tidy piece back in the day until she got old and wrinkly

[@danmcdaid]

Comes to us all mate

[@mcfcguvnors]

6 % pay increase for Firemen ring any bells ?

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Give them nowt. They can go to blazes.