The Newsroom

Cumbria derailment coverage

(February 2007)

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ST
STV Today
N24 reporting one fatality and five in critical condition.
JO
Joshua
Looks like the first death confirmed on BBC News 24, not sure about Sky News, did they have any information earlier?
MA
Manxy
Sky now only showing Latest pictures, probally because people were getting bored of looking at a police car through a hedge.

EDIT: Now back to looking at the police car through a hedge.
ST
STV Today
Sky not reporting on a fatality yet. Live pics still being shown at left off the screen - the right box is showing the latest pictures.
JO
Joshua
Sky reporting 65 walking wounded, 12 with serious injuries and 77 injured in full.
MO
Moz
josh205 posted:
Looks like the first death confirmed on BBC News 24, not sure about Sky News, did they have any information earlier?

Is it more important that we know who found out about the fatality first... or that we act like proper human beings and are saddened that someone has died?

Hopefully no more will have lost their lives - whoever reports it first.
ST
STV Today
Sky now confirming from Reuters one fatality from Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
JO
Joshua
I was mearly pointing out BBC News 24 had news of it, it's of corse sad news.
CA
calum141
Confirmed - one person died.
ST
STV Today
Moz posted:
josh205 posted:
Looks like the first death confirmed on BBC News 24, not sure about Sky News, did they have any information earlier?

Is it more important that we know who found out about the fatality first... or that we act like proper human beings and are saddened that someone has died?

Hopefully no more will have lost their lives - whoever reports it first.


Very true. I use this service frequently and I am shivering at this as I was going to use this line to attend a birthday party this weekend.
It is indeed a very sad development.
DV
dvboy
NickyS posted:
Manxy posted:
The news broke before nine o'clock cause five news announced it at about 8.57 at the start of their news update. Anyway tonight proves SKY's slogan wrong First for Breaking News.

As had been said News 24 were way ahead. From memory it was about 25/20 to 9. Certainly before Newswatch was due to start which is why I had News 24 on.


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MO
Moz
josh205 posted:
I was mearly pointing out BBC News 24 had news of it, it's of corse sad news.

Sorry Josh, wasn't meaning to get at you. We're all interested in who got what first, but just wanted to inject a bit of humility to the proceedings.

However, it does seem that while the BBC were last to get a satellite truck to the scene, they had mostly everything else, including journos who are doing more groundwork and getting the stories.

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