Van incident in North London - News Coverage

So much background noise where BBC News is right now! (With Ben Brown, by the way)

Just switched to BBC ONE not long ago - to cover the minute's silence, it was kept a bit longer on TWO.

Busy news day today. This, more major developments in the fire and the start of brexit negotiations.

There was an opening but with no titles with Ben Brown presenting the 2pm Bulletin on the BBC NC from Finsbury Park.

There is a live press conference now with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick and The Mayor of London; Sadiq Khan.

It's certainly been a busy few weeks for all the national media, I think there's been a BBC News Special on BBC One at least once a week for the various events and happenings over the last month.

I certainly can't think of a time when News has shifted so many programmes on BBC One and Two in such a short space of time.

The week after Diana was killed ? (Sept 1997)

Quite possibly, slightly too young to remember all the changes to the schedules back then (I was only 10!). I remember the morning her death was announced, probably my first memory of a significant breaking news story.

There was 9/11 and the Iraq war in 2003 which also moved alot of stuff around.

I thought 9/11 did for the first few days following the event, but not every week for nearly a month in terms of news specials.

There was a heightened awareness for a while afterwards though, I remember the plane crash in New York about a month or so afterwards which was of course initially feared to be another major terrorist incident.

EDIT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

As much as I like Victoria Derbyshire on her own show, in a studio based setting I think today has proved that the 'main' news channel presenters are far better at anchoring live on location in a Breaking News environment. I take it Joanna Gosling was always down for covering VD today? I found her anchoring of the events this morning live at Finsbury Park much better in terms of delivery and flow than VD at Grenfell Tower and the various other awful events that have been covered in recent weeks.

Special mention to Ben Brown though, he has been absolutely superb on the BBC News channel. He's had a tough couple of weeks (as have most presenters) and I think has presented/anchored from close to the scene of all the attacks and the Grenfell fire aftermath. I think people forget that presenters are human and it must take a toll on them mentally, especially as these events have been horribly relentless.

A short period for the first and only one story for the second.

If you go back to the Westminster attack and also include the calling of the snap election plus the election itself, the Manchester attack, London Bridge, the tower block and now this one, then yes it's been relentless.