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Sir Edward Heath

Former British PM has died (July 2005)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
It was announced on IRN at 9pm.
DV
DVB Cornwall
News 24 breaking news a few mins before 9pm
BB
BBC LDN
scottishender posted:
scottish posted:
Edward Heath has died, it has been announced in the last couple of minutes


Really?


It worries me that you've always got something to say when there's death being discussed. You seem to have some kind of morbid fascination with it which is frankly quite disturbing.
MA
Magoo
Sky News and ITV News Channel broke the news at 8:55pm followed by BBC News 24 at 8:57pm who broke into the end of Head2Head.
RU
russnet Founding member
Without sounding morbid, isn't this the second Prime Minister from the past to have died this year?
MS
msim
russnet posted:
Without sounding morbid, isn't this the second Prime Minister from the past to have died this year?


Yes, Jim Callaghan died in April I think, and now Ted Heath.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Leyla Daybelge has just broken the news on ITV1
MA
Magoo
msim posted:
russnet posted:
Without sounding morbid, isn't this the second Prime Minister from the past to have died this year?


Yes, Jim Callaghan died in April I think, and now Ted Heath.


Callaghan died on Sunday 26th March 2005.
IM
its me
Andrew posted:
Leyla Daybelge has just broken the news on ITV1


Have BBC ONE or BBC TWO broken the news yet?

I recall when Lord Callaghan died BBC TWO had a news report with Darren Jordan.
NW
nwtv2003
its me posted:
Andrew posted:
Leyla Daybelge has just broken the news on ITV1


Have BBC ONE or BBC TWO broken the news yet?

I recall when Lord Callaghan died BBC TWO had a news report with Darren Jordan.


ISTR BBC One broke in with Darren Jordon at the end of the first episode of Doctor Who.
IM
its me
nwtv2003 posted:
its me posted:
Andrew posted:
Leyla Daybelge has just broken the news on ITV1


Have BBC ONE or BBC TWO broken the news yet?

I recall when Lord Callaghan died BBC TWO had a news report with Darren Jordan.


ISTR BBC One broke in with Darren Jordon at the end of the first episode of Doctor Who.


BBC TWO broke it before this though.

Michael Buerk reporting now on the Ten, on this subject.
SH
Showbizguru
Yes,yes,yes,that's all well and good.
But was he a bender or wasn't he ?
I guess we'll never know.

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