BBC News 24

...looks very much like it now.

I'm presuming they were told about the midnight announcement by DEFRA.

All you sceptics who continally rant about how Sissons has no clue about all things modern and technological - take a look at this clip (about 4'30" in to it) and you will see Mr. Sissons discussing computers like he was a grand master!

Interesting that these two fellows in the clip are both now working for BBC News 24.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyFnuk7xC3o&mode=related&search=

This was from 1987 though - 20 years later, computers claim to have become a lot more simple, but are in fact more complicated for it. You forget that this was the sort of day where Peter could tap an expression into the machine and hey presto, it would spew out a full-colour graph.

Surely though it is a journalists job to have thoroughly researched their area and become efficent in being able to convey its workings and various specific details

It's nothing more than I'd expect from a seasoned journalist of Peter's callibre.

MATTHEW AMROLIWALA and CLAIRE MARSHALL presenting the 11.00-2.00 slot today. Very interesting. I wonder where Jane Hill is??

She's in Praia de Luz, she's been giving live updates from there throughout the day so far.

And Matthew only turned up at 12.30, Simon Mccoy was on before him.

Well that is interesting. I wonder why? LOUISE MINCHIN doing today's 1.00 News, in place of the regular anchor Sophie Raworth.

It is a friday though Ronant, and Louise has covered the friday one for many weeks now, sometimes turning up on News 24 at 2pm.

Why? Has something happened there?

Tomorrow, it's 100 days since the girl's disappearance. Most of the media are covering it in a big way. Even CNN, unusually.