BBC News could not have had a better presenter on in Martine Croxall, who knows the area well. They've not stuck with it continuously but have had a local BBC reporter on the phone.
Sky News are showing The Pledge.
Hopefully nothing serious.
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Sounds more like a gas explosion than a terrorist incident.
Watched videos of the scene. A house has exploded. Fire is raging on. Probably a gas fault, before everyone screams "it was brown people"
Sky News have reporter Laura Scigliano from Gem 106 on the phone and the pictures they are showing are from Gem, as they are on the station's twitter feed.
Sounds like something similar to what happened on the Wirral a few months back. Really don't think it's in anyone interests for national news stations to go into rolling news mode until the facts are clearer. Reporting it is fine, but just report what you know and move on, don't speculate for hours on minimum information.
I agree. As someone who heard the Birmingham explosion from home a couple of weeks ago, I appreciate there is a duty to report in the interests of safety for people living locally as the police are advising people to stay away. You hope for the best, but fear the worst, because we have experienced both in recent times.
However - and I'm not sure of the precise time it happened - police tweeted about it at 19:19 which is 90 minutes ago now so I'm not sure it warrants rolling coverage for hours and hopefully at 21:00 it will become part of a regular running order. If anything it shows the problem of airing something like The Pledge instead of a regular hour of news with short items that can be dropped as necessary.
Last edited by dvboy on 25 February 2018 8:55pm - 2 times in total
Sounds like something similar to what happened on the Wirral a few months back. Really don't think it's in anyone interests for national news stations to go into rolling news mode until the facts are clearer. Reporting it is fine, but just report what you know and move on, don't speculate for hours on minimum information.
I agree. As someone who heard the Birmingham explosion from home a couple of weeks ago, I appreciate there is a duty to report in the interests of safety for people living locally as the police are advising people to stay away, however - and I'm not sure of the precise time it happened - police tweeted about it at 19:19 which is 90 minutes ago now.
I think it might be because it was immediately declared a major incident, and to be honest, if I saw this tweet, I would have initially suspected it would have been something more than (what looks like) a gas explosion bringing down a convenience store and a flat:
| Major Incident |
19:19 |There has been a major incident on Hinckley Road, Leicester. All emergency services are currently dealing with this. Carlisle Street and part of Hinckley Road have been closed Please avoid the area.