Now officially declared a terrorist incident by the Metropolitan Police.
London Bridge and Borough Market declared as terrorist incidents. Vauxhall incident is a separate stabbing which is not related to the other incidents.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day - being Sunday, it'll have a big impact on the political shows and interviews, plus the possibility of more breaking news on a day when there's a major concert in response to a previous terrorist attack. And all this four days out from a General Election.
Of course (speculation) if the threat level was increased again, that could have a big impact on those events anyway.
So ITV pulls away from a continuing news story which affects many people in the UK's capital... for Jackpot247. Dreadful.
I just can't understand it. They have a newscaster in the studio, two reporters on location and a security correspondent in the studio. Why don't they just carry on?
Sky have just showed the clip with the offensive language AGAIN.
Could anyone give a hint on what was said?
I think I heard "what is generally considered the most offensive non-racist word of all" in current English together with an intensifier derivative of a word that begins with the sixth letter of the alphabet, that is so commonplace these days that it fails to intensify much at all for me, and which Ofcom describes as "the most offensive language" even though it is way off that. That seems to be exaggeration on their part! I did not hear any ethnic slur, although maybe there was something barely audible there. The "C" word (as if you don't know what that means) was actually said in quite a bad way, as far as I perceived, but it still didn't offend me on television video as opposed to real life. I noted that the police didn't warn or arrest anyone who said it, so I assume there are far bigger things at the moment to be concerned with.
EDIT: 11am-4/6: I couldn't make out what the person originally said. It now turns out that it did include a religiously offensive slur as well. (This posted here as an edit rather than a new post as the discussion has moved on.)
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So ITV pulls away from a continuing news story which affects many people in the UK's capital... for Jackpot247. Dreadful.
I just can't understand it. They have a newscaster in the studio, two reporters on location and a security correspondent in the studio. Why don't they just carry on?
So strange. Any ITV viewer will just go switch to BBC/Sky to hear whats going on now.
The vast majority of the public generally like going to bed during the night so not being on air 00:50-08:25 is of little consequence. Being on air 08:25-10:00 on a Sunday is the best time to focus their limited resources and catch the highest number of viewers.
BBC World style Live bug now on the BBC coverage, so probably about to switch to Studio C at 1.00
:-(
A former member
I'm going to DEFEND ITV here and say there should be able to go off air, But I do agree it should be back earlier then 08.25. Maybe there should put up some captions to tell people to check twitter etc.