Autumn newsletter now available
Please go to Members area, select Newsletters, and enter the members' password. Here you can view or download the newsletter. There is also a link to all editions from September…
Section 37 issue – Decision and update (Aug 24)
This is a report by the representative beneficiary for the Section 37 legal case involving the NTL Pension Plan: Following the Appeal Court hearing on the 26th and 27th of…
Pension Plan Developments – July 24
A letter has been sent to all Plan members outlining some developments regarding the Plan. No action is needed but questions are invited about the developments, to be received by…
Special “Engineering Announcements” video on 50 yrs at Crawley Court
The former IBA headquarters at Crawley Court, Winchester celebrated its 50th anniversary recently. To mark the occasion a special version of the only tv programme that was regularly produced at…
NTL Pension Plan – payroll change
The Trustees of the NTL Pension Plan have moved the pensions payroll from Virgin Media to XPS (the adminstrators of the Plan) with effect from October 2023. A letter has…
Crawley Court for sale or rent
Members may be interested, and perhaps rather sad, to hear that the East wing of Crawley Court (as pictured on our home page) has been put up for sale or…
New photos of early ITA/IBA colleagues
There is a new set of photos in the NTLPA Gallery area, accessed via the link on the Memorabilia page. These are from an album of John Brodsky's that Andy…
Bilsdale mast fire – info and links
ITV report on the incident: https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-08-10/telecommunications-mast-in-north-yorkshire-has-caught-fire BBC news item on the incident: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58169501 Arqiva page on the incident: https://www.arqiva.com/news-views/news/update-on-incident-at-bilsdale-mast ITV video of mast demolition: https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-10-06/314m-fire-damaged-bilsdale-mast-demolished-and-dismantled Ofcom review of the Bilsdale…
New: Video on start of ITV in colour in 1969 by Howard Steele
We have just been sent a very interesting and historic video given by Howard Steele, then Director of Engineering ITV in November 1969. This was a video shown privately to…
New NTLPA website goes live
The new NTLPA website went live on the morning of 24/12/2019. Webmaster, Graham Sawdy, said "We hope the new website will help our members and visitors find the information they…