Cumbria derailment coverage

The driver no doubt will be injured but the crumple zones at the front of the train should suitably protected him (to a degree).

The Pendolino train is apparently going to be written off.

Branson seems to think that the Pendolino will be repaired and brought back into service.

Sky - first for breaking news my bottom

BBC - First to break story, Live interview on phoe within minutes, an experiensed reporter on the scene in time for the 10, better coverage of the story i.e. more in-depth, more coverage

Sky really don't deserve their RTS award

It is pretty obvious now in hindsight that News24 were first breaking the news, however this has nothing to do with their journalistic scope, it is purely down to the fact that they had a BBC exec on the train.

Sky showed what they do well; they get the information and pictures first and certainatly do that.

Both channels had lots of 'waffle' tonight as there was lots of time to fill with not much information emerging.

Border have just said "welcome to this specially extended edition of Border News". How does that work? Everyone's got 15mins at the moment...

News.com.au are reporting it as "One Killed in London Train Crash" (!)

I wouldn't expect the incident to get much coverage by overseas news, to be honest - looking on other websites like CNN.com, it's not even amongst the top stories - any more than I would expect a similar train crash in Germany to get a huge amount of coverage here. While not wishing to demean the casualties incurred yesterday evening, the derailment is not on the scale of, for example, the Paddington or Southall train crashes.
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They've just made the thing about the President asking the Italian prime minister to stay on top headline on BBC homepage.. shrug