I think Gavin just said on Newsnight that camera crews have been withdrawn for their own safety - they are now talking to a Guardian journo on the phone instead. NC are talking to a 5 Live journo, also phone only.
Sky appear to have live pictures from Croydon, while the BBC are interviewing someone in Ealing over the phone; apparently Ealing shopping centre is on fire but no official conformation yet. Twitter reports that a tiger has been set loose from London Zoo are fake, just so you know.
Sky appear to have live pictures from Croydon, while the BBC are interviewing someone in Ealing over the phone; apparently Ealing shopping centre is on fire but no official conformation yet. Twitter reports that a tiger has been set loose from London Zoo are fake, just so you know.
That "someone in Ealing" - Adrian Mills, formerly Esther's sidekick on That's Life and of Sky Travel Shop.
If this keeps up then there will be a strong case for World to be in rolling coverage overnight, solving the issue
Technically how hard would it be for World to opt-out using Singapore staff, allowing the London presenter to handle the riots? The ability for World/NC to air different recorded programmes overnight exists, but is live a different matter? If the situation calms down (and lets hope so) I suspect they may still want to air their business programming covering the opening of the Asian markets
Primark too! It's burning down. Too far I tell you.
There has not been a fire at Primark or anywhere else in Birmingham. I walked past the store ten minutes after reading that rumour on twitter and it looked untouched.
If this keeps up then there will be a strong case for World to be in rolling coverage overnight, solving the issue
Technically how hard would it be for World to opt-out using Singapore staff, allowing the London presenter to handle the riots? The ability for World/NC to air different recorded programmes overnight exists, but is live a different matter? If the situation calms down (and lets hope so) I suspect they may still want to air their business programming covering the opening of the Asian markets
I believe the Singapore bureaux is fairly basically equipped- more than most but a long way from what you'd need to run a full BBC World Service. You'd need to get all the reports fed / sent as files from London, route live sources back and forth. Be hugely difficult, if not impossible.
Far easier, if necessary, to keep NC on air separate from World- as Steve says, run two different galleries, but Singapore would have to be run via London.
According to the owner of the burning shop in Croydon (Trevor Reeves of www.houseofreeves.com) it has just started raining. I guess that can only be a good thing.