London bombings - TV news coverage

Both Sky and ITV using a tube map to illustrate the story - but ITV are showing a version which is at least 10 years old.

Sky have the SkyCopter up now, and are using reporters and other Sky staff who were on the trains travelling to work at the time.

Both BBC and ITV are using the London Traffic cams

Yeah, Sky have the edge with the copter. The other channels are using the TfL/police cameras around town.

All channels had staff on the tube at the time who are now giving eyewitness reports.

Sky were very quick off the mark with it, but News 24 were genuinely bizarre. They put up a 'breaking news' strap, with no sub-text, and then took it down again without mentioning anything, they then went to a report, and mentioned the tube thing about five/ten minutes later. Bit odd.

The Skycopter is paying dividends... putting them leagues ahead at the moment. Some nice bodies on stretchers...

I've never understood why Sky do not seem to use the TfL police cameras, as I'm sure they have access to them. I think they're free access as long as they are not being used for ''police'' business.

CNN are using the ITN feed at the moment.

The SkyCopter is giving Sky a definite advantage at the moment. Much more 'dynamic' pictures rather than the static TfL cameras.

Andrew Harvey has just said that they're experiencing power surges in the ITV News studio at the moment

Sky definately have the best coverage - speaking to Bob Crow was bizarre but then again it always is - but the Skycopter is really giving the coverage a lot more "realism".

Just reported a bus exploded too.

ITN have a reporter at the scene of that in Tavistock Square.

Sky's helicopter was up over the area with a Sky reporter inside just 15 minutes or so after the first reports, so they were incredibly quick off the mark. I wonder if they had already planned to do something with the Skycopter, perhaps re: the Olympic bid.

Does now, worryingly, seem to be rather less than an accident.

Sky are saying their helicopter is being refused to film an area of London at the moment, so you have to wonder what is going on there.

Seems like contradiction of the greatest magnitude going on.

Experts think power surges of this kind would be near on impossible and the Skycopter has been held off Russell Square for one reason or another.