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 Speed cameras wereÌýhotly debated inÌýour broadcast.Ìý
It's so hard to get a sense from the ticket applications for Today OBs of how many people will actually attend. Usually there's a drop-out rate of about 30% - people presumably setting the alarm for half past five in the morning, then thinking "Forget it, I'm not that keen to see the programme go out."
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Chief Constable of North Wales Richard BrunstromÌýputs the case for speed cameras.Ìý
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Today reporter Roger Harrabin (right) on the TodayÌýprogramme research into speed camera use.Ìý
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The audience in North Wales listen on eagerly.
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The nerve centre: An outside broadcast calls for precise timing in the makeshift studio.
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The chocolate chip cheddar cheese and mustard in close-up.
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But we thought we were on to a winner with one particular email for our Llandudno OB which took place on Saturday. 'We begin every day with the programme...we'd love to come....please please please (repeated about 50 times) send us two tickets'. Excellent, we thought, and mentioned them by name in the pre-programme warm-up as commendable examples of loyal and respectful listeners. And would you believe it - they hadn't turned up!
Anyway, we went to Llandudno to discuss the vexed business of speed cameras with the Chief Constable of North Wales RICHARD BRUNSTROM. Mr Brunstrom isn't the favourite son of the Sun's motoring pages - they see him as a modern-day highwayman - but he mounted a robust defence of speed cameras, and took questions from our studio audience.
He talked about the organised opposition to cameras: "I think it is the Jeremy Clarkson effect, the petrolhead lobby, a very vocal, but actually very small group...I would like to see more politicians in the Cabinet, from the Prime Minister down, standing up and saying 'The evidence is solid. We are going to do this because it saves lives'."
The Chief Constable also joined the row over whether the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary should be trying to suspend another Chief Constable - David Westwood in Humberside. Mr Brunstrom told us the 91Èȱ¬ Office also had lessons to learn from the Bichard report.
Elsewhere in the programme we covered the local row over the wild goats who live on the Great Orme, a large rocky outcrop that looks over the town. Residents are divided as to whether the feral Kashmiri goats are an asset or a danger to local gardeners, whose blooms they are fond of munching.
We also discussed the demands on housing in North Wales. Welsh language campaigner ARAN JONES argued that local estate agents should stop advertising their properties on the internet where they could be snapped up by buyers from outside Wales. The Welsh Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh language ALAN PUGH wanted a more measured approach.
After a week in which we featured some of the world's unhealthiest foods, to put the debate here over public health in context, we thought it only fair to show what artery-hardening products Llandudno had to offer. DEINIOL AP DAFYDD brought in produce from Blas ar Fwyd delicatessen in Llanwrst, including smoked salt, mustard and the public health doctor's worst nightmare - chocolate chip cheddar cheese!
Our technical set-up is getting more and more advanced with each OB. This time our Studio Manager Graham McHutchon had rigged up a 50" plasma screen which showed a live feed from the Today studio at 91Èȱ¬ Television Centre, so the audience were able to enjoy the sights as well as the sounds of the London end of the programme. Please keep checking the website if you'd like to come to a future OB - there will be more over the course of the summer.
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