Sky News

Personally seeing that they've changed the straps for non breaking news, they should revert to previous straps.. ie...

Having this for breaking news...
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And this for none breaking news...
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Credit: TV Newsroom & ginnyfan

to be fair just because you don't personally care about some of the new they break, doesn't mean it's not news. i'm not pointing the finger at you here this is just another point, but to some 'news snobs', if it's not politics, famin, or war, then it's not 'real' news.

my only gripe is using the actual breaking news strap for everything. they should use the blue ones. they're nice and calm, and make teh breaking news ones stand out.

Anna Botting has been on her own for what seems like weeks! Jeremy must be at the cricket.

However, I prefer her on her own. I think she is a very good anchor actually.

Sky News broke the news of a mini tornado hitting north west London at 12.19 today (Thursday 7 December). It provided the first aerial images from the SkyCopter immediately giving viewers an idea of the extent of the damage caused by the freak storm

Timeline

Circa 11am the mini tornado hits Harlesden, north west London

12.19 Sky News Lunchtime Live breaks the story of a small tornado hitting a street in Harlesden, NW London. Sky News presenter, Kay Burley is on air at the time of the breaking news.

Sky News starts running open ended without cutting to commercial breaks.

The SkyCopter is already in the air on its way back from filming aerial shots of the Buncefield refinery (to mark one year one year anniversary). It was immediately diverted to north London to film the first aerial footage of the tornado-hit street.

12.20 First eyewitness report on the phone from local resident (James Miles), providing first hand account on the ground, describing the scenes from the damaged street.

Further eyewitness accounts from locals (Sally Johnson, local estate agent, local pub owner Robert Voce)

1234 Fox News simulcasts Sky News footage on London tornado

1237 Sky News invites viewers to email their mobile phone images of tornado

1239 Scotland Yard is reporting no serious casualties.

1240 Sky News broadcasts first video phone images of damage on the ground from a member of the public (James Miles)

1243 Sky News weather presenter Francis Wilson interviewed down the line about the tornado on Sky News. Sky’s meteorologist provides scientific explanation behind the weather phenomenon.

1245 BBC News 24 first reports the story and provides its first pictures from the ground in north London

1251 London ambulance reports six people injured

1300 Sky News Online experiences a large surge in the number of users, recording around 667,000 hits - about four times the average traffic. As word spreads of the tornado people go online to look at Sky News video clips, picture galleries, user-generated content and analysis by Francis Wilson.

1307 BBC News 24 shows its first aerial shots

1331 Sky News correspondent Ursula Errington reports down the line from street-level and describes the situation on the ground, including numbers of emergency services personnel ‘calmly dealing with the damage’.

Local resident (Barry Cheese) interviewed saying he many local ‘thought it was terrorist attack at first’

1345 First live shots from ground-level showing images of emergency services in North London

1350 Sky’s Ursula Errington reports live from Creddington Road. Describes how a local resident says his ‘house has been annihilated’.

1359 First live interview from the scene. Eyewitness George Peters describes the darkness at the time of the tornado (‘so dark you couldn’t see anything’)

1406 Official briefing by London Fire Service representative, David Bonner
. Confirmation that six people suffering minor injuries, one person taken to hospital for minor injuries. About 100 properties affected, with several hundred people displaced

Sky News presenter Colin Brazier takes over from Kay Burley to anchor Sky’s coverage of tornado. Sky continues open-ended coverage.

1438 Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham reports live from Chamberlain Road

1443 Sky News interview with Major of Brent, Bertha Jones

1453 Sky News Business Editor Michael Wilson provides analysis on the effects of
the tornado from a financial perspective. Interview with rep from Association of British insurers, who provides advice on home insurance.

Five News correspondent Jason Farrell to provides a package and report live from the scene to five news presenter, John Suchet in their regular bulletins.

To be fair though, would this be getting quite so much coverage if it was more than 10 miles from Osterley?

Sky's coverage has been great and ahead of BBC's.