Ellen MacArthur's return

TRUE CRIME will be dropped.

lets hope she trips on a rope and falls in upon her return, in front of all those cameras

is there no escape from this woman, whats-her-name on the bbc weather is talking about her in every other sentence.

Interesting. Newsnight tackling the other point of view. Paxman sounding desperately bored with the whole thing as well, although its difficult to tell whether he's generally pissed off or not.

Is this woman the reason Sophie was doing the 6 0 clock news and not Sian who was in Falmouth??
Sophie normally has Monday off.

A good day for Britain!! And to the 'couldn't give a toss' mugwumps in this thread - CHEER UP!!!

Hear hear! I can't believe how miserable everyone here is.

The BBC are in the right spirit - they're wiping the floor with everyone on this. Of course they are the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation and Britain does rule the waves. They've even got Ellen on the bbc.co.uk front page - one of those rare occasions when the news makes the top story.

Yes typical sad British attitude..... anyone who achieves anything vaguely interesting or amazing is put down by a bunch of miserable bitter tossers

I'd like to see the critics on this thread achieve something even vaguely as great as Ellen has today

The Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister have all congratulated Ellen. That's how big this is. Good to see some people are proud of Ellen.

Just a shame that she gave her first interview in French. <spits!>

Well she did finish her race there and we do get the bigger event tomorow

You are joking ?

Didn't take Blair long to jump on the bandwagon, What after coronation street last week and T4 mayby he could pop down with some banners and welcome her home.

I'm pretty sure that extended 10'o'clock news was longer than the one on the night that the Iraq war started, and perhaps even 9/11. The BBC needs a sense of proportion. I'm normally the first one to say that programmes should be cancelled in the event of a breaking story, but this was hardly the outbreak of war, was it?

It's a minor, piddling story, an 'and finally' at best - I don't see the BBC doing an extended programme when someone sets a new record for sitting in baked beans. If it wasn't because of the fact that it's typically middle-class, middle-England, public school-pleasing sailing, they wouldn't care.

Or is that slightly controversial?