Very true Dave - I was often in touch with one of their original folks in Telford, when I was running RCSW in the early 1980s.
Shame they are abandoning MW though.
I guess at some point in the future, Robbie Dale's (RIP) 1967 recording he made on the Mi Amigo, just after Big L's closure - will be appropriate again: "We are now alone, but we will continue"
I think that was one of the most moving bits of Radio, I've ever heard from the north sea.