Fire in North London - What should news channels do?

True on the last point.

London is made up of lots of little 'villages' but that doesn't mean that those who live in Bow or Kingston or Acton never go to Camden or don't know it at all. There is an infinity between the various parts of London that there isn't between, say, the north of england. 'The north' has lots of self contained cities and towns. The same goes for Scotland or Wales or 'the midlands'.

It's worth remembering the population figures - London is 9 million people packed into quite a small area. If you include the surrounding towns that recieve the regional news you're talking one 1/5th of the population

You've obviously never fought your way through all the tourists in Camden on a Sunday afternoon then!

Tourists - so maybe it's the American and Japanese news channels which should be concentrating on this then, not the BBC.

Yeah, because suddenly Camden isn't in Britain is it. It's not just foreign tourists is it.

Why you've become so petty about things on here recently "God" only knows!

Glad Sky bothered to stick with it all the way through, although being in the North East, I've often been down to Camden and was interested in seeing if the historic parts were under threat.

My friend who swears by BBC and loathes Sky, had to even switch to the lesser news service - in his view - when the BBC decided a repeat was more important.

The bbc are right in not giving this extensive coverage. its a fire, thats all.

Did I specify *foreign* tourists?

The Matalan in Birmingham caught fire when there was 200 people and 45 staff inside and all it got was the 3rd headline on Midlands Today and a 3 min report on central news. The building then collapsed and injured 5 people.

With no disrespect intended to those who don't live in London, I think there's clearly a lack of understanding about how important/well known/popular Camden Market is.

It is incredibly famous the world over. I don't know figures for how many visit it, but I would hazard a guess that it is in the top ten tourist attractions in London.

Those saying 'oh god, it's just another fire at some dumpy market; if it happened outside the M25, we'd never hear of it', are probably demonstrating a lack of knowledge about the area and its popularity.

I wonder how many northerners have even heard about this market, I didn't know this market existed, let alone how popular it is.

With no disrespect intended to those who do live in London, I think there's clearly a lack of understanding about how unimportant/unknown Camden Market is.

It may be incredibly famous world over, but most Brit's couldn't give a stuff about it.

Well yes. However, if my neighbour's shed was on fire, I'd find that highly newsworthy, but I wouldn't expect to see it reported in any media, not even the parish magazine.