News scripts

What happens to all the scripts when they have finished using them. From what I can see the other day George Alagiah had about 50 sheets of A4 on his desk with about three words on each - and then he threw them in a bin at his side. And this was only a news summary.

We've been told that all the paper in the bins in the News Centre is recycled. It was in response to questions from many of us for recycling bins.

I can understand why they have scripts on paper...when there was the powercut at the BBC last summer, Huw Edwards said that all the autocues and computers in the studio were down and he was doing all his links from the paper scripts. So they come in useful at least once in a blue moon...

I like the way they also look down at scripts when reading quotes as if to show they haven't just made them up!!!

I don't think George Alagiah would have put those sheets in the bin - they put them on top of the PC Terminal under the desk - he would have needed them for the remainding news summaries and the One O'Clock News?

Huw and Michael Buerk all put their sheets in the bin after the end of their broadcasts and so their stints...

It must be strange waiting around so much after the Six for half an hour to do the 6.55 update and then waiting for seven minutes doing nothing before coming back for about 30 second at the end of the ten when the regions opt out.

I wonder what they do - thay can't just sit there.

What is that chair made out of - it looks like beige leather. I have seen Sian Williams sitting on it with a cushion a few times!

yeah, Huw Edwards never put that on his report, did he ! (on features page)

Chair looks really uncomfortable - so I can understand Sian having a cushion! It is beige leather-esque material... and there is a row of three just off camera ready to hurtle in when people come in to be interviewed.

During the ten regional news break, Buerk at least just sits there and twiddles his thumbs and types messages to the programme editor in the gallery!

Can we buy the chairs anywhere, it would go nice in the study!

I'd love one of those chairs too - no matter how uncomfortable they are!

And talking of chairs (and why we are, I don't know!) - all the editors offices in the news centre have purple sofas in the same colour as the astons on all BBC News programmes!

Also, the presenters chair at the desks where the One, Six and Ten programmes are put together have huge backs, arms and look generally much comfier than the ones everyone else has to make do with....!