DV
Happening in the morning apparently.
Well it seems they have gone to Newsnight as normal as nothing has come of the Priti Patel rumors (Yet).
Happening in the morning apparently.
It’s my understanding that Priti Patel will now be fired tomorrow morning, for misleading the PM about the below on Monday. https://t.co/MV1PT8L0Zf
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 7, 2017
GE
two helicopters!
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
thegeek
Founding member
I really am so shocked the BBC have deployed their chopper to cover Patel's arrival into Heathrow. Utterly ridiculous waste of money.
two helicopters!
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
NE
two helicopters!
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
Still doesn’t warrant deployment of a chopper for this story. She’s an MP getting sacked, hardly a bomb scare or something more serious.
I really am so shocked the BBC have deployed their chopper to cover Patel's arrival into Heathrow. Utterly ridiculous waste of money.
two helicopters!
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
Still doesn’t warrant deployment of a chopper for this story. She’s an MP getting sacked, hardly a bomb scare or something more serious.
PE
peterrocket
Founding member
Clearly they were tipped off she wouldn't be going through the airport where she could be met by a crew - is it common place for ministerial cars to go 'airside' for just a minister?
I know for presidents, PMs and Royal Families that's possible - but for ministers, I'd have thought there would be at least some kind of 'arrival' procedure to go through than get in a car and leave.
I know for presidents, PMs and Royal Families that's possible - but for ministers, I'd have thought there would be at least some kind of 'arrival' procedure to go through than get in a car and leave.
GE
I don't think they were, as Simon McCoy thought, ministerial cars - they appeared to have logos on the door. They were probably Heathrow VIP vehicles which would have been taking her to the VIP suite, with its own immigration channel.
thegeek
Founding member
Clearly they were tipped off she wouldn't be going through the airport where she could be met by a crew - is it common place for ministerial cars to go 'airside' for just a minister?
I don't think they were, as Simon McCoy thought, ministerial cars - they appeared to have logos on the door. They were probably Heathrow VIP vehicles which would have been taking her to the VIP suite, with its own immigration channel.
NE
I don't think they were, as Simon McCoy thought, ministerial cars - they appeared to have logos on the door. They were probably Heathrow VIP vehicles which would have been taking her to the VIP suite, with its own immigration channel.
Which presumably is not a free service, even for ministers...
Clearly they were tipped off she wouldn't be going through the airport where she could be met by a crew - is it common place for ministerial cars to go 'airside' for just a minister?
I don't think they were, as Simon McCoy thought, ministerial cars - they appeared to have logos on the door. They were probably Heathrow VIP vehicles which would have been taking her to the VIP suite, with its own immigration channel.
Which presumably is not a free service, even for ministers...
LL
London Lite
Founding member
For some reason, the feed to Salford for today's NWT contribution to News Nationwide on Afternoon Live was in SD. Yesterday, it was in HD.
IS
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
Though they also rarely call out the chopper by themselves, they're normally shared with ITN and sometimes Sky too. The latter tends to happen when there's an event whereby they can't or don't want to have multiple helicopters so the footage is pooled
I believe the BBC have a buyout agreement with Arena Aviation, and lease a certain number of flying hours per year - so they've already paid for it, and it's just a question of whether they'd have used the hours better on a more important story later in the financial year.
Though they also rarely call out the chopper by themselves, they're normally shared with ITN and sometimes Sky too. The latter tends to happen when there's an event whereby they can't or don't want to have multiple helicopters so the footage is pooled
EL
And indeed we saw the shot of her getting in on most output, not just the Beeb.
Interesting discussion about airside - there was definitely a people carrier in the back that had a logo (Addison Lee maybe?) but the two black cars seemed to have no logo and looked like everyday ministerial cars.
Interesting discussion about airside - there was definitely a people carrier in the back that had a logo (Addison Lee maybe?) but the two black cars seemed to have no logo and looked like everyday ministerial cars.
VM
Very out of date headlines on the ticker just now: ‘Remembrance services will be held across the UK to honour those who lost their lives in conflict - a two-minute silence will be held at 11 o’clock. • For the first time the Queen will not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph but will watch as Prince Charles attends the ceremony and lays a wreath’.
Appears to have been updated in the past tense now.
Appears to have been updated in the past tense now.