Blair leaving > Brown incoming - 27 Jun 2007

I would have thought ITV news will run a special, if not an extended Lunchtime news...

BBC News 24: 11.00am - 12.00pm
BBC Parliament: 12.00pm -12.30pm
Sky News Active: 12.30pm - 1.00pm
BBC News 24: 1.00pm - 1.30pm

Doesn't look like ITV News are doing anything at all today, outside of normal programming. Shame on them.

Julie at Westminster and the dreaded Burley at Buckingham Palace for Sky News. Mattew A. is at Downing Street and Jon Soepel at Westminster for BBC News 24.

It looks like Brown will go to the Palace at 1340. So maybe ITV News cover that.

It's actually quite a poor show of ITV news to not be covering this. It goes without saying that today is a major news event, and regardless of whether the BBC are covering it or not - ITV news should be doing their bit.

News special starting on BBC1 now.

And BBC2 cut off as Blair makes his goodbye speach - absolutely pathetic!


They should have stuck it all on BBC1 and left Wimbledon to BBC2.

That was pretty painful to watch...you could almost see Charles Kennedy and IDS looking a bit taken aback they were cutting it off. Even News 24 had do the BBC1 special so it was literally as Blair walked out of the Commons that the titles to that kicked on, very close.

I understand the pressures of programmes coming on and off air to time, but given the Daily Politics coverage was completely independent of News 24/BBC1's special surely an extra couple of minutes could have been added as Wimbledon is fairly flexible?

Either that or someone should have forseen that might have happened and had the programme ending at 1240!

The Daily Politics was absolutely pathetic for cutting away just when the most iconic image was taking place, the one remembered by history. Thanks BBC - Where News comes first!!

For Wimblecrap!

Editorially, The Daily Politics ending like that was quite dreadful.

it made the programme pointless, all to go to rainy Wimbledon.

As has been said, it should all have been on BBC1 or BBC2.

I'm sure one or two people are getting a rocket about this - rightly.

I suppose ITV don't see the point in essentially duplicating what's on the BBC and various news channels, and people will gravitate to the BBC anyway.

Channel 4 was covering it on the News at Noon (from ITN), and then there's the ITV Lunchtime News to come.