It’s smokin’

It’s smokin’

At Stockport Fire Service

Keeping up to speed with new procedures and gruelling training is just part of the everyday life of a fireman, but how about gourmet cooking? 4 Cheshire fire fighters have become stars as they compete in this years cookery challenge – but what can they offer head chef Marc Mattock’s and his team from the Dun Cow in return for all their teaching & advice? How about a trip into a smoke filled house to show what they do every day? The 3 Chefs were escorted into the Smoke House by the White Watch team from King Street Fire Station in Stockport in full breathing apparatus in search of a casualty giving them a full experience of a firemen’s duty and we went along to film!

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Lights, Models, Guest List…

Fashion Kicks at Red Carpet Launch

We had an invitation to film the launch of the New Hugo Boss Store here in Manchester co-hosted by Manchester City Football Clubs goalkeeper Shay Given and his wife Jane to raise funds in aid of their charity, Fashion Kicks.

Local celebrities donned the red carpet in celebration for the launch of the second largest Hugo Boss store in the world, located right here in Manchester on New Cathedral Street neighboring stores such as John Lewis and Selfridges. At 10,000 ft² you can enjoy the entire Hugo Boss experience within its walls.

Shay and Jane Given fused Fashion, Food, Football and fantastic Entertainment together to set up the Fashion Kicks Charity back in 2004. Since then they have raised a phenomenal amount of money for Macmillan Cancer Support, the evening saw the auction of some fantastic prizes donated to the charity auction. An art gallery was also set up to support the charity including a variety of works with some rather bling looking doggies created by Agnetha. Guests enjoyed a champagne reception with canapés and got to compete for the fastest time in The Vodafone McLauren Mercedes simulator. Celebrities who came to show their support included Coronation Street stars Michelle Keegan, Brooke Vincent and Ben Thompson as well as Miss Manchester. Check http://www.fashionkicks.org.uk/ for more info.

The Heat is On!!

Contestants from all over the UK gathered to compete in The Great Northern Cook Off 2010 in Cheshire’s very own Cookery School here in Manchester and had their culinary delights sampled and judged by Michelin Star Chef Michael Caines!

The heat was on this week as the Marketing Executives battled the Firemen and the Accountants battled The Brewery Experts as they all competed for a place in the Final of the Great Northern Cook Off 2010. Pots and pans at the ready the teams arrived early to prep their workstations before entering the strict 2-hour cook off where they were only allowed two phone calls to their chef mentor for advice and help if disaster struck. The teams were required to create a three-course gourmet meal with preselected ingredients to be judged by Michael Caines. Not only have the teams got to shine and produce an outstanding dish but their mentor who has been teaching them the skills and tricks of the trade since September is also being judged for the Mentor of the Year Award. The teams have been given dishes to reproduce that best represent their chef mentor and they must make them shine; Andrew Nutter’s teams V’s Simon Rimmer’s team, the pressure is on to keep their place in the competition for their team to be crowned The Greatest Northern Cook. We saw some beautiful dishes produced, our favourite being lunch! We shot some superb footage and got some great cooking tips…. for dinner I believe I will have the confit guinea fowl served with turned vegetables and jus!!

The Hilton Hotel Manchester

David Gale

We were very excited to find out that David Gale was awarded Manchester’s Chef of the Year this month.

Our very own Northern Cook Off Chef has been awarded a prestigious title for his superb cooking at The Hilton Hotel in Manchester. With both of his teams ‘GT on the Rocks’ (Grant Thornton) and ‘The Saucy Seasiders’ (Hi-Life Dining Club) through to the second round it may not be the only award he will be picking up this year if they make it through to the final. We will be venturing up the 168.87 metre high hotel in the heart of Manchester to film the master at work in his kitchen later this month, we’ll keep you posted!!

The Business End

The Business End

We love it when the delightful Katy calls us from cctwo as we know are going to be whisked off to a very organized event at a swanky hotel with some of the world’s most prestigious corporate companies discussing their new business goals and we can assist the smooth running of the shows.

We have had some great days out recently at venues including the luxurious Ramada hotel in Manchester whilst one of the UK’s largest Banking Groups descended on the city for their Autumn Roadshow, and our crews at the ready to film the prestigious events.

Fun days out with CITC – Imagine your Goals

City in the Community

This month we’ve been in the community filming for the launch of new initiative ‘Imagine Your Goals’ part of the ‘Times Change’ Campaign.

The project sponsored by MCFC is dedicated to working with people suffering from problems around mental health and to try and improve their situation by offering a physical activity, an opportunity of playing football on a regular basis. The scheme raises awareness as well as offering help and support within the community. We interviewed Paul Evans, Mental Health Practitioner for Manchester Mental Health PCT; who explained the benefits of the initiative and how research has proven that exercise is equally as useful as antidepressants. 1 in 4 people each year experience some form of mental heath issue, and the scheme wants to reach out to people as well as raise awareness. Steven Turner, Men’s Health Project Manager, CITC told us about the social advantages of getting people together and working as a team and how it impacts on the improvements of the individual suffering with Mental Heath related problems on many levels.

Ex MCFC stars Paul Lake and Jeff Whitley, ambassadors of the programme who have been very open about their experiences with Mental Health were there to highlight the issues, which is very inspirational for a lot of the men participating in the scheme. Paul Lake explained, “It is not the weak person that comes out, it is the strong person” and Jeff added “There is help out there for everyone!” Go watch the Film online

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/Video/Features/CITC-Imagine-your-goals

… and in the BIG Shed…

… and in the BIG Shed…

Last month we featured an article about our Angelina Jolie lookalike recreating that famous air duct scene from Die Hard. Well Yippie Ki-Ay, its been posted on Big Shed’s website where you can see more great pics of that golden scene, captured by ace photographer Justin Windle and our DoP Robert Foster filming the sequence, which we are currently editing and will be uploading to the website and our YouTube account BroadcastTVLtd for your enjoyment – but take a look at the article at www.big-shed.co.uk/news/yippie-ki-ay...