All of Tonight's Anchors Wearing Black - All Channels

Really shouldn't speculate, *BUT*..... Tony Benn or Maggie, preferably the latter

Well TOny Benn was admited to hospital during the Labour conference, but never heard any more about it, so I assume he recovered.

Its just too much of a coincidence for all female anchors to wear black today.

I would imagine that any embargo would be lifted either in time for the 10 tonight or first thing tomorrow morning, to kick off the news day with Breaking News

I think background activity is about normal.

Just a thaught though, if it is a royal it is likely that they have not actualy died yet, and have just been reported as "close to death" or "seriously ill", and there is an embaro until information on their condition has become more clear.

Yes, he was given a pacemaker

Of course it could be the Pope.... oh, no hang on a sec....

embargoes are to protect the dead persons family - not to suit tv news programmes.

Yes, all looks about the same for a usual weekday evening

If a royal was seriously unwell, wouldn't the BBC and ITV break their current programmes to Break the news. Same scenario with John Paul 2nd. I doubt they would leave it. The only thing is if they're not 100% Sure

Well I hope ITV get Felicity Barr off ASAP if anything is announced... she looks like she's soliciting.

If that's mourning attire for her, I dread to think what she looks like when she's having fun.

BBC is still advertising normal program times

He handed me the chair he'd been sitting on a couple of minutes before he collapsed.

Whilst his death would certainly get extensive coverage, I don't think he would warrant a full-scale obit procedure, would he? Certainly not more so that the recent deaths of former PMs Callaghan and Heath, which although they dominated the news channels and bulletins for 24 hours or so, didn't lead to any changes to programming, senior presenters called in or suchlike.

Common sense suggests that the only person suitable for such a widespread show of respect would be the Monarch.

Similarly, the arrangements required to begin a period of Official Mourning would likely delay an announcement in a way we may be seeing on screen.

There is also a distinct (and appropriate) silence from some well know BBC insiders ere.

The preponderance of evidence suggests that at the very least a *senior* Royal has died.