Incident in Barcelona

LOL. Well spotted!

RTÉ News had Tony Connelly for the Lunchtime News covering yesterday's events in Barcelona.

Two members of one Irish family, who are originally from the Philippines but became natural Irish citizens, were injured in the attack.

So we had Jonathan Samuels on Sky News untl around 11.15 when Niall Paterson who has been presenting from the Glass Box since 10 solo.

I know Kay Burley's producer is flying over to Barcelona, which may suggest Kay is heading over to Spain to continue OB coverage later today.

Kay is actually in America to cover the Solar Eclipse. I'm sure another senior presenter is on their way to Barcelona though so Jonathan isn't anchoring round the clock.

Looks like it will be Stephen Dixon, on air at 17:00 and 19:00 according to his twitter feed.

Ok. So a 'behind the screen' question.
When, at around 4.10 yesterday the news wires started clattering, and newsroom monitors were retuned to TVE24, to show this wasn't some accident - was it someone's job to hit the websites to book several seats on the first flight to Barcelona and hotel rooms?

Or do broadcasters have special deals with airlines and hotel chains where it takes one call, say the destination, and everything is booked in double quick time to get the 'boots on the ground' faster than you or I would be able to make a group booking?

Like many large businesses and the public sector, they probably use a corporate travel agent to do all the work for them.

Thats probably it for coverage on the BBC as they now have a far 'bigger' story to cover...

Sky have also switched to the 'bigger' domestic story.

And BBC1 did a newsflash of Brucie's death with Sophie Raworth in E just before the Pointless repeat just now.

PS-Feel free to move this over to the Sir Bruce Forsyth Death thread Mods.

Back to Barcelona and Clive Myrie is now also there.

I think Stephen Dixon had tears rolling down his cheeks earlier.