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Lintz Cricket Club |
National Exposure |
Lintz Cricket Club has
been in the media a few times, either on television, radio or newspapers. Below are the times Lintz
Cricket Club has been featured. We are currently tracing our records to find
others so, in time, more will be added. |
BBC NINE O’CLOCK NEWS |
1999 |
On 12th November,
1999 the BBC on their main evening news programme broadcast a tribute to Lord
Denning, who had died that day. The report, by the BBC
Legal Affairs Correspondent Joshua Rozenburg, featured an interview with our
Chairman, Bob Jackson about the court case in which Lord Denning overturned a
court case in Lintz Cricket Clubs’ favour. We contacted the BBC for
their permission to have a streaming version of the report on our website,
which was turned down. We have therefore written a transcript of the report
below. Still video shots will be uploaded in due course. |
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Michael Buerk
(Newscaster): One of
the most influential and outspoken legal figures of his time, Lord Denning,
has died, a few weeks after his hundredth birthday. During nearly forty years
as a judge, Lord Denning became known as ‘the champion of the common man’. He
was often controversial, but he was wildly admired for his willingness to
overturn old established legal traditions in the name of justice. Joshua Rozenburg
(Reporter): Lord
Denning was the greatest law making judge of our century and perhaps the most
controversial. His achievement was to shape the common law on England
according to his own highly individual vision of society. It was in 1963 that
Lord Denning became the one judge everybody had heard of, with his enquiry
into the Profumo affair involving Christine Keeler - a model, and John
Profumo, who was then a Government minister. Denning sat alone and in
private, even sending out the lady shorthand writers because he thought some
of the evidence was so disgusting. As Denning himself remarked, his report
was a bestseller, more than 100,000 people bought copies. During his 20 years
as Master of the Roles, Denning could choose his own cases. On most issues he
had the last word but in seeking justice he considered himself a title to get
round and rule of law that stood in his way. There was no need to wait for
legislation. Lord Denning (Library
Interview): Parliament
does it too late, it may take years and years before a statute can be passed
to amend a bad law, and it doesn’t affect the actual individual. As far as
the actual individual is concerned, the judge, if he has power, should do it
and should make the law correspond with what the justice of the case
requires. Joshua Rozenburg
(Reporter): But his
willingness to overturn decided cases made for uncertainty in the law and
although he saw himself as champion of the underdog, the ordinary citizen,
the consumer, the deserted wife, he supported employers against trade unions,
educational authorities against students and the Home Office against
immigrants. He once wrote ‘In Summer
time, village cricket is the delight of everyone’. It was the opening
sentence in a judgement in which he supported the Lintz Cricket Club in
County Durham against the owners of newly built neighbouring houses who
complained about sixes landing in their gardens. More than twenty years on,
Lord Denning is remembered with affection. Bob Jackson (Lintz CC
Chairman, Interview): He
came in on the Monday morning and within five minutes we felt that he was on
our side. He had a strong feeling for the community and indeed village life
in general. Joshua Rozenburg
(Reporter): The
judgement was written in Lord Dennings unique pungent pro style. ‘They tend
the ground well’, he wrote. ‘The outfield is kept short.’ Sir John Mortimer
(Barrister & Author, Interview): There was a man, he lived in a house across a common and
somebody tried to stop him walking across that common. As a post, politician
nowadays end up with rambling sentences which they have no idea how they are
going to get out of. Joshua Rozenburg
(Reporter): The
remarks followed a riot trial in Bristol suggesting that some black people
were unsuitable to sit on jurys led to an apology and his retirement. But his
prejudices shouldn’t detract from someone whose life was devoted to justice. Lord Irvine (Lord
Chancellor, Interview): He
was creative, imaginative, he was often ahead of the field, ahead of the game
and what he said at the time appeared to be orthodox and then it became
orthodoxy. Michael Buerk
(Newscaster): Lord
Denning, who died today aged one hundred. |
DURHAM – A FIRST CLASS
COUNTY |
1992 |
In 1992, Tyne Tees
Television, based here in the North East of England, ran a series of 6
documentaries about Durham County Cricket Clubs’ new status as a First Class
County. Lintz Cricket Club were
featured in the first 10 minutes of the first programme, and this is how we
figured… |
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Narrator: The former mining village of
Burnopfield. A small community yet is boasts two teams, Burnopfield itself
and the Lintz Cricket Club. Today is the local derby and the rivalry goes
back a long way. Bob Jackson, Committee
Member Durham CCC / Chairman Lintz CC, Interview: I understand that when the miners went
back to the collieries next morning and they were known, the terminology was
‘marras’, when two men worked together and one could support Burnopfield and
one could support Lintz, and I think next day the productivity was very small
from the person who supported the team who had lost the night before. Narrator: Tiny Burnopfield produced two England
test players, Jim McConnen and the legendary Colin Milburn. Colin’s mother
was a tea lady here for forty years. Throughout the interviews
with our Chairman and Colin’s mother, shots were shown of the Lintz Cricket
Club with players from both sides. In time we hope to have some shots on this
page. |