The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange. ATV Today was the news programme of Associated TeleVision, the ITV contractor for the region. On 27 November 1969 it aired a report on the 1967 Bentilee "UFO landing" in Stoke-on-Trent, featuring Roger Stanway and Tony Pace of Newchapel Observatory. 11 October 1971. Reporter Peter Plant was in Banbury, and the same day the programme screened its own crew's footage from Radford, Enstone, with Smart and Fewlass giving their accounts. In 1981 it covered the Thornton Road poltergeist under a blunt title. "Catapult".
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