Huge plumes of smoke seen in East London, but it seems at the moment that it's not terrorist related. News 24 and Sky on this. Julie and Colin on Sky and Matthew on News 24.
So to summarise: some news is happening, and pretty much the normal presenters are on. Not too sure why this warrants a thread of its own, it's hardly a huge story.
Wow, a disused warehouse which was about to be demolished for the Olympics is on fire. Hardly worthy of a minor mention on the local news, certainly not the headline material and a location report that ITV News gave it.
Interesting to see CNN actually cover it and dedicate some yellow straps and a ticker to the fact there was a fire in London, complete with static live shot from the other side of London!
Also interesting to see the BBC One O'Clock use some artistic licence with their live helicopter shots: the news channels were saying how the smoke was dying down and was no longer black, switch over to BBC One and hey presto the "live" picture shows thick dark black smoke from a different angle to the live shot on News 24.
If this was anywhere outside of London, especially Birmingham, Manchester, Glagow, Belfast or Cardiff, then it would probably not even get a look in.
It looks like a normal down to earth fire to me, no-one's dead, nothing terrorist related, what's the big fuss? A small mention on the National news is fine to me.
I think the general consensus is that this thread is unnecessary.
Please remember that The Newsroom is not a place to post threads about news items. We're here to discuss news presentation. If a news story entails a change in a channel's normal presentation (i.e. on the scale of September 11th) then it is acceptable to have its own topic. But, for something this trivial, it is completely unnecessary.