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London Terror Incidents

(June 2017)

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GI
gillw72
Very fast of SkyNews to get a live camera up!
BM
BM11
The Gunfire seems more likely to be from the Armed Police perhaps.
BM
BM11
The Sky Camera probably has come from the News UK building.
IS
Inspector Sands
Wonder if anyone at the BBC feared the worst when "London Bridge" was first mentioned, as we know that's the code word for the announcement of the death of the Queen.

That hadn't occurred to me (not that that term would be used on air)

I'm waiting for the first news organisation to use a photo of Tower Bridge....
SP
Steve in Pudsey


"Pictures from Twitter" really winds me up. It's the equivalent of attributing a letter to Royal Mail or a phone call to British Telecom. They should really be crediting the photographer.
TF
TellyFan
AlexS posted:
Wonder if anyone at the BBC feared the worst when "London Bridge" was first mentioned, as we know that's the code word for the announcement of the death of the Queen.

In a lot of ways I'd imagine that story would be easier to deal with than this sorts of event...


True. Death of a member of a Royal Family gets announced at 8am, too.
BM
BM11
Now reports on LBC of multiple assailants.
BM
BM11
Wonder if anyone at the BBC feared the worst when "London Bridge" was first mentioned, as we know that's the code word for the announcement of the death of the Queen.

That hadn't occurred to me (not that that term would be used on air)

I'm waiting for the first news organisation to use a photo of Tower Bridge....

I saw a tweet with some correcting it as London Bridge so am Not sure if some source had said or used a picture of tower Bridge.
AS
AlexS
AlexS posted:
Wonder if anyone at the BBC feared the worst when "London Bridge" was first mentioned, as we know that's the code word for the announcement of the death of the Queen.

In a lot of ways I'd imagine that story would be easier to deal with than this sorts of event...


True. Death of a member of a Royal Family gets announced at 8am, too.

Not sure that's true. I think it can break at any point during the day (The Queen Mothers death was announced early evening), but if it occurs overnight it will be 8am.
BM
BM11
Yes if Her Majesty died at 8.15 am it will be announced that day not at 8am the following morning. I suspect 10pm is the cut off time at night.
BR
Brekkie
As we saw with Manchester radio plays such an important role when events like this sadly occur.
VM
VMPhil


"Pictures from Twitter" really winds me up. It's the equivalent of attributing a letter to Royal Mail or a phone call to British Telecom. They should really be crediting the photographer.

See also 'Pictures from YouTube'

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