Jonathan BBC
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Hello to all members.
My name is Jonathan Eden and I work for the BBC in Oxford, I recently had a Defender 110 stolen and I am in the process of researching a feature on the thefts of this British Icon.
A bit about my loss:
I brought a 1988 defender 110 last year and had started the process of upgrading it to have a vehicle which my family could go traveling around the UK and Europe in. In the six months before it was stolen I had changed all of the lights, completely re-upholstered the interior and re-hung the doors. The project was a very personal one to me and I had spent a lot of time working on “the old girl.”
When I woke to see the vehicle had been stolen it was akin to losing a family friend and my entire family were gutted.
The project:
Some of the details of the feature are going to be kept secret until we air the programme. So obviously I cannot go into specific details, however what I am looking for is information and stories of stolen Defenders especially from those who have any pictures or videos of the vehicles theft. The location is not important but the closer to the south of the country the better for me. Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire and Hampshire are of particular interest to me.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this.
Cheers
Jonathan Eden
BBC Oxford.
My name is Jonathan Eden and I work for the BBC in Oxford, I recently had a Defender 110 stolen and I am in the process of researching a feature on the thefts of this British Icon.
A bit about my loss:
I brought a 1988 defender 110 last year and had started the process of upgrading it to have a vehicle which my family could go traveling around the UK and Europe in. In the six months before it was stolen I had changed all of the lights, completely re-upholstered the interior and re-hung the doors. The project was a very personal one to me and I had spent a lot of time working on “the old girl.”
When I woke to see the vehicle had been stolen it was akin to losing a family friend and my entire family were gutted.
The project:
Some of the details of the feature are going to be kept secret until we air the programme. So obviously I cannot go into specific details, however what I am looking for is information and stories of stolen Defenders especially from those who have any pictures or videos of the vehicles theft. The location is not important but the closer to the south of the country the better for me. Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire and Hampshire are of particular interest to me.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this.
Cheers
Jonathan Eden
BBC Oxford.