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22-528: Since opening its doors in 2003, Frontline Club has hosted over 1,200 events . Its founders do not receive wages and the events programme is almost self-sustaining, mainly from membership fees and ticket income. Discussions, held most weekday evenings, are broadcast live. Past participants include John Simpson , Robert Fisk , Jeremy Paxman , Tim Hetherington , Nick Robinson , David Aaronovitch , Alan Rusbridger , Jeremy Bowen , Louis Theroux , Gillian Tett , Christina Lamb , Julian Assange , Jon Lee Anderson

44-720: A bullet and saved a journalist's life. The walls of the Frontline Club display examples of war photography and artwork. In December 2010 Vaughan and Pranvera offered Julian Assange of WikiLeaks their private home, Ellingham Hall , in Norfolk as an address for bail. Assange had been staying at the club for two months. In 2019 the club launched Frontline Freelance Register for freelance journalists and reporters operating in war zones to help them with issues related to welfare, digital security and insurance. The register states on their website "The Frontline Freelance Register" (FFR)

66-514: Is an Anglican and worships at Chelsea Old Church . Cleveleys Cleveleys is a town on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire , England, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Blackpool and 2 miles (3 km) south of Fleetwood . It is part of the Borough of Wyre . With its neighbouring settlement of Thornton , Cleveleys was part of the former urban district of Thornton-Cleveleys and

88-541: Is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News . He has spent all his working life with the BBC , and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge , where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine. Simpson was born on 9 August 1944 in Cleveleys , Lancashire, but

110-638: Is on the Blackpool Tramway . The tramway runs from Starr Gate in Blackpool to Fleetwood via Bispham and Cleveleys. There are five tram stops in the area, between the stops of Rossall School (Southern Fleetwood) and Little Bispham (Northern edge of Blackpool). The nearest railway station to Cleveleys is Poulton-le-Fylde , 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away. Local television news programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada . The local television station That's Lancashire also broadcasts to

132-479: Is open to international freelance journalists who are exposed to risk in their work and who adhere to our Code of Conduct. We aim to provide our members with representation and a sense of community." [REDACTED] Media related to Frontline Club at Wikimedia Commons 51°31′01″N 0°10′21″W  /  51.5169°N 0.1725°W  / 51.5169; -0.1725 John Simpson (journalist) John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944)

154-899: Is part of the Blackpool Urban Area . In 2011 the Cleveleys Built-up area sub division had a population of 10,754. At the start of the Second World War , several departments of the Ministry of Pensions , the Ministry of Education and the Board of Trade were moved to the Cleveleys area. Some were housed in the Rossall School briefly. An extensive site was developed for the Ministry of Pensions in

176-520: The Evening Standard that the Frontline Club was his favourite London club. The Frontline Club opened in 2003. It was founded by surviving members of Frontline News TV , a cooperative of freelance cameramen formed during the chaos of the Romanian revolution in 1989. It specialized in war reporting for television. Vaughan Smith , one of two surviving founders of Frontline News TV, turned

198-665: The Nine O'Clock News in 1981–82 and became diplomatic editor in 1982. He had also served as a correspondent in South Africa, Brussels and Dublin. He became BBC world affairs editor in 1988 and presented an occasional current affairs programme, Simpson's World . Simpson's reporting career includes the following episodes: In 2008 and 2009, Simpson participated in a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice . It saw Simpson unite with fellow Britons Sir Ranulph Fiennes ,

220-580: The City of London . Simpson was honoured by the City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in May 2012. Simpson entered his first marriage in 1965 to American Diane Jean Petteys, with whom he has two daughters who were born in 1969 and 1971, respectively. Following divorce, he married Dee (Adele) Kruger, a South African television producer, in 1996. Their son Rafe was born in January 2006 when John

242-674: The Norcross section of Carleton and all the government departments moved out in 1940. On 1 February 2008, the MS Riverdance ferry, while undertaking a regular sailing from Northern Ireland to Heysham under severe stormy conditions, ran aground on Anchorsholme beach, close to the boundary with Cleveleys Cleveleys is served by Blackpool Transport , which operates to Blackpool town centre, Mereside, Lytham , Bispham and Fleetwood, by Stagecoach North West , Cumfybus and Classic Bus Northwest, via Cleveleys bus station . Cleveleys

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264-627: The adventurer, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston , the round-the-world yachtsman. The team went on three trips, experiencing each other's adventure field. The first episode, aired on 27 March 2009, saw Simpson, Fiennes and Knox-Johnston go on a news-gathering trip to Afghanistan. The team reported from the Khyber Pass and the Tora Bora mountain complex. The three also undertook a voyage around Cape Horn and an expedition hauling sledges across

286-583: The area. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lancashire , Heart North West , Smooth North West , Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire , Dune Radio , and Blackpool -based stations: Coastal Radio and Fylde Coast Radio. The town is served by the local newspaper, Blackpool Gazette . Cleveleys has a number of pubs, including The Victoria Hotel, The Shipwreck Brewhouse, and The Jolly Tars, all on Victoria Road . Between 1961 and 2004,

308-587: The challenges for the future. In 2018, he described how a previous head of BBC News had recently tried to force him out of the BBC. "I wasn't the only one: he did the same to several eminent broadcasters, on the grounds that the news department was clogged at the top by the aged. I was unsighted by being assured regularly how wonderful my contribution to the BBC was. 'I'd be distraught if you left', he said." Since 2022 he regularly presents Unspun World with John Simpson for BBC , disecting political opinions from around

330-491: The deep-frozen Frobisher Bay in the far north of Canada. During the 2011 Libyan civil war Simpson travelled with the rebels during their westward offensive, reporting on the war from the front lines and coming under fire on several occasions. In 2016 Simpson presented a Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline", revisiting the people and places that have impacted on him most, revealing his thoughts on

352-636: The first Chancellor of Roehampton University in 2005. Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates: De Montfort, Suffolk College at the University of East Anglia , Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex, St Andrews, Exeter and Leeds. He has received the Ischia International Journalism Award and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents . In June 2011 he was made a Freeman of

374-518: The late Benazir Bhutto , the late Boris Berezovsky , the late Alexander Litvinenko , and his widow, Marina Litvinenko. The club includes a restaurant open to non-members, a club room, meeting rooms, two lodging rooms and a discussion forum as well as an annex with 12 bedrooms available to members The club also hosts film and documentary screenings and organises training and workshops in such skills as camera operation and film editing . In May 2011, broadcaster Louis Theroux said in an interview with

396-459: The operation into a club, offering a meeting place for those who believe in independent journalism, as well as to honour dead colleagues. It also aims to lobby for better support for the freelance journalistic community. The clubroom has a display of relics drawn from the history of war reporting since the Crimean war . Cabinets show personal items, some with shell still embedded, that have stopped

418-717: The world as their world affairs editor. Simpson has received various awards, including a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991, an International Emmy for his report for the BBC Ten O'Clock News on the fall of Kabul, the Golden Nymph at the Cannes Film Festival , a Peabody award in the US, and three BAFTAs . He was appointed an honorary fellow of his old college at Cambridge, Magdalene, in 2000, and became

440-551: Was 61. Simpson, whose grandmother was born in Ireland, holds British and Irish citizenship ; he moved back to London in 2005 after living in Ireland for several years. In an interview with the Irish Independent Simpson admitted to using a legal tax avoidance scheme to purchase his London home in 2004, but stated that he would abandon the scheme and pay all applicable domestic taxes on its sale. He

462-530: Was editor of Granta magazine. In 1965 he was a member of the Magdalene University Challenge team. A year later Simpson started as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news. Simpson became a BBC reporter in 1970. Early in his career, the then prime minister Harold Wilson , angered by being asked whether he was about to call an election, punched Simpson in the stomach. Simpson was the BBC's political editor in 1980–81. He presented

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484-689: Was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week. He says in his autobiography that his father Roy, a property developer, was a Christian scientist . His parents separated when he was seven years old and he chose to remain with his father while his mother cared for his two half sisters. He spent ten years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and St Paul's School , followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge , where he read English and

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