Paris Terror Attacks Coverage

I know! I remember a time when it was Martyn Lewis who was drafted in during the night! How times change!

I appreciate rolling news for what it is.

But the BBC coverage was improved greatly there by showing their first structured report filed by Simon Jones. It must be a challenging job to try and pull together details of what's going on, and try to accurately summarise the situation, but he did a decent job.

Poor week for ITV. Can't believe they're showing Jackpot 247 when such an event is unfolding - no wonder they struggle to get ITV News taken seriously.

France 24 doing a superb job - always rated Mark Owen when he was at Granada. Great interview with an eyewitness from the Bataclan just now.

Have to agree, huge News story even if it is this late and itv NEWS not on air even when normal programming has finished. Very poor.

How long is Mark Longhurst going to be on for?

Rubbish. ITV really are not equipped to be doing this sort of coverage during the day never mind at 1:30am. The only channels that are rolling are those that would have been rolling anyway.

Eurostar will be operating services to Paris this morning, so there is a route in for crews from the UK.

Truely awful news and it shows we are living in difficult times.

Mark Longhurst (with Rebecca Williams) continues at 0200 on Sky News.

I'm surprised they haven't drafted Martin Stamford in.

That was a very upbeat handover to BBC News at the BBC One 'close down', thanking us for being part of CiN and "lets do it again next year". Didn't match up with crashing into a conversation about hundreds being dead.

I think he's normally on at 1000 on a Saturday anyway?