Cliff Richard High Court Case

I noticed an opinion article in the Sun That was talking about how it will damage all the media if Sir Cliff was to win his case. It was headlined - secret arrests will occur if Cliff wins. So it will be very interesting to see their reaction if Sir Cliff wins.

There was more of a kerfuffle with the BBC helicopter over this

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/use_of_bbc_news_helicopter

The TL;DR on that one is that someone thought a helicopter had broken aviation rules by flying low to film the Flying Scotsman. Turns out they didn't because they're not complete idiots who think they can fly wherever they like, and they had all the permissions they needed

The only problem (which does have some merit in my view) is the chopper ruined the photographs of some of the train <cough> enthusiasts who had spent hours waiting to get a shot.

Which, truth be told, is probably why they were complaining, rather than any perceived risk to public safety.

You clearly aren't a reader of the Daily Mail if you think my last posting was based on that homophobic little England hate-rags editorial thinking about the BBC. The Daily Mail would not be calling for the BBC to win the case and be awarded costs.

But, since you asked the question.
If I wasn't famous. Probably not happy, but if I was fairly certain plod would find no incriminating evidence about my property, I'd put up with it.

If I was famous. It's part of the territory with being famous. The amount of times during Sir Cliff's carear he's needed the BBC to plug a single/album release, but he can't expect glowing and fawning coverage for everything he does.

I'm guessing Sky News are keeping quiet until after the verdict, but I'm fairly sure that if SYP tipped off Martin Brunt over this raid, Sky News would not have kept the Sky News Copter grounded at Redhill Aerodrome as Inspector Knacker rolled up to the electric gates of Sir Clifford's British mansion.

That's entirely my point. You should not be treated differently to any celebrity. If he wins his case this will have major implication for all aerial coverage by helicopter or drone for all TV outlets - something none of use want. I also can't think of any UK broadcasters running live pictures of any police raids before this. It was bad judgement to use a tip-off and to use live footage IMHO. If no one else had aerial footage why not keep it for any subsequent court case? Also what of his neighbours? I'm sure some of those properties may have been seen.

If he wins his case this will have major implication for all aerial coverage by helicopter or drone for all TV outlets - something none of use want.

The part I've highlighted in bold.
There's a simple reason for that. When you see the police batter down a door, and leg it inside shouting, it would be difficult to pixelate the person (or others in the house) being arrested/under suspicion live. Hence. Why you see that in heavy delay (hours or days)

The raid on Sir Cliffs House was done live, because SYP/BBC knew he was in one of his other houses in Portugal.

By the way, do we know if the footage from the helicopter was 'Live, live' or 'live with short delay' so if anything unexpected happened, or one of SCR's house keeping staff got in shot, they could switch to the ground level based camera.