London Terror Incidents

THere now saying there a third incident.

Are we getting an ITV News Report as my EPG says? I can't believe our biggest commercical broadcaster is currently airing a repeat of 'The Chase'.

You really would have thought they'd have learnt from the Manchester attack.

It's as we discussed the other week - a short newsflash is really an invitation to the audience to switch to a news channel. They tend to only do them if they are in a position to do a lengthy piece of rolling news coverage.

Interesting to see ITV going for this one. Easier to get people in the area when it's London, or saving face from their lack of effort overnight the other week?

BBC One NI had a brief flash of the network slide after Clique before using their (arguably nicer) one first shown the other week.

ITV News covered the breaking news briefly in their late bulletin earlier.

The EPG is currently saying that there should be an ITV News Report from 11.45 to 12.15, but they're currently showing the scheduled programme The Chase and no mention of the news was included in the preceding continuity announcement.

Meanwhile ITV News have tweeted they are going on air at 12.10, no idea if this is simply a newsflash or rolling news throughout the night like the BBC.

EDIT: EPG has been updated and it appears that ITV will be going with rolling news.

BBC ONE Network and Scotland aired the BBC NEWS 'News Report' slide used during the Westminster attack.

Northern Ireland aired their own slide, the same one which was used during the Manchester Arena bombing.

Wales aired a Circles era-style slide.

What are our second and third biggest commercial broadcasters doing?

As ITV doesn't have a rolling news channel, immediate coverage would have been even more lacking than BBC & SKY, so rather than one fixed camera and one eyewitness and nobody knowing anything except what they'd read on Twitter, they'd likely have neither.

Martine unsurprisingly going past midnight.

As the story broke on Sky News


Niall Paterson is continuing past midnight.

Sky Sources: Belived to be terrorism.

That was some seriously scary viewing on Sky News for a while.

If this is an ongoing incident, the broadcasters really need to be responsible with the pictures they're choosing to show.

Just saw a video on Sky News of Police telling everyone to get down in a bar, believed to be Southwark Tavern .