Broadchurch

[Kaz]

Re the young lad who died there last year Fugi, I do wish TV companies were a bit more sensitive sometimes...........For example that drama about the Wests upset a fair few here in Gloucester last year .....Gloucester is a very small city, very clannish, everyone seems to know everyong else. In face Mick's mum knew one of the daughters through her work as a nurse, a surviving one thank goodness, and Mick used to drink sometimes with West's brother............ These recent real life tragedies can be very raw, and TV companies should be aware................

[Ally]

I enjoyed it too. Enough going on for us to be asking each other questions afterwards which is always a good sign
Are you allowed paper rounds at 11? What was the other boy deleting? Et cetera...

I actually said out loud (to no one in particular!)..Craig had to wait till he was 14 for a paper round.

[Fugitive]

I hope the film company would have changed the location if the local boy had been murdered. Far too close to the truth. Although those beautiful cliffs in Broadchurch are where the young female holiday maker was buried and died under a rockfall last summer. We all used to walk under those cliffs, sit under them and picnic, gaze at the sea but they're not safe either to walk along the top of them or walk underneath them any longer. That was a tragic accident whereas the young local boy who died had an existing health problem - which doesn't make it any easier for his family to bear.

Warning signs everywhere and lots of the coastal paths being moved further back from the cliff edges.

Funny hearing the supposed Dorset accents - very rarely heard here now. Sounded more Wiltshire or even Gloucestershire than here.

That was very bad research with the victim having a paper round aged eleven. Obviously needed to connect the young boy with the shop keeper in some way as this series is going to have many Red Herrings!

[TheOstrich]

We also know that area well so it brought back a lot of memories for us. As Fugi has said, that whole stretch of coastline can be very dangerous for rockfalls.

Was Pauline Quirke's caravan @ Freshwater, Fugi?

We both enjoyed it - a bit of a slow-burner, though - but having seen it, my one reservation was the casting of David Tennant .... not entirely sure he fitted the role all that well; he looked a bit too wild ..... JMHO, naturally.

Agree about the accents!

[Ally]

Sorry to go slightly off topic..but 11 does seem really young to have a paper round, doesn't it?

I know when Craig was 13 he went to our two local newsagents and they both told him he had to be 14 before they'd 'employ' him.

He actually done a weekend paper round for 2 years and earned a small fortune..bless him.

Sorry...

[Gal]

I enjoyed it but was astonished that he had a paper round at 11, I thought children could only be employed from 13.

I thought it a bit off that the mother didn't know her son wasn't at school - do schools not get in touch with parents at registration to find out why their child is absent? Why wasn't it spotted that he wasn't home and in bed the night before, at 11????

Don't have any problems watching DT - especially with his bit of facial fuzz

[Diflower]

Yes the school not checking was another of our questions
I don't think parents would necessarily routinely check on 11-yr-olds would they, after they'd gone to bed? Soon after maybe, but after that?

[Workingman]

My son started his paper round at 12, which I think is the legal age.

The lad could have lied about his age... He would not be the first, would he? And age 11 is 365 days long...

As for parent checks. I used to climb out of my bedroom window, having gone to bed, to roam the streets and mum never, ever knew.

[Gal]

Yes the school not checking was another of our questions
I don't think parents would necessarily routinely check on 11-yr-olds would they, after they'd gone to bed? Soon after maybe, but after that?

Jen and I still call goodnight to each other when we go to bed, I thought most people did. I just found it odd that it seemed nobody had seen him since the meal the evening before.....

And, I did check on Jen when she was 11, just a quick pop my head round the door - she was still a child then.

[Diflower]

Oh if it was since the meal then yes that is odd
At 11, I don't know/remember if I was checked on. Eldest would have been here, but then he'd have been in the room with his brother who's 4 years younger so it would have been both of them.
But at 11, there's not the slightest chance he wouldn't have been there