On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:42:40 +0100, wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:11:41 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:37:55 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

He said that he no longer had a view of the scene because a row
of trees had moved! I still haven't worked out what he actually meant.

Obviously the trees were undercover surveillance Northumbria Police
officers in camouflage.

Surely they would be from special branch.

Are the special branch cadets nicknamed "the twigs".

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Petert" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:41:48 +0100, "Dave"
wrote:


" wrote in message
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I just got in, put the telly on to see what's happening about the Mr
Moat story. Obviously I turned to the BBC as a good British citizen.
What I saw whas a recorded programme about parliament. Put Sky on,
live coverage, people on the ground, instant updates.

I'm so sad.

Bill

You should know after 20+ years that Sky News 'Milk' any big story.
Actually when you look at the coverage it is the same recorded loop
running
round and round most of the time. I hate Sky News because when any big
story breaks they really milk it dry. They almost wipe their hands of
anything else that is happening in the news and just stay with the one
story. Sky news is crap in my opinion and as someone else said, who
would
want to follow this ****e so heavily anyway? Want a news update I
suggest
you log onto a news website either at home on on your mobile.


I suspect that is the same for all 24 hour news cannels - they have to
fill their programmes with something
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Cheers

Peter

(Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)

Suck it dry, with Sky : )

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:01:33 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:42:40 +0100, wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:11:41 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:37:55 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

He said that he no longer had a view of the scene because a row
of trees had moved! I still haven't worked out what he actually meant.

Obviously the trees were undercover surveillance Northumbria Police
officers in camouflage.

Surely they would be from special branch.

Are the special branch cadets nicknamed "the twigs".


Until they leaf

--
www.thisreallyismyhost.99k.org

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:33:42 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jul 12, 6:08*pm, tony sayer wrote:
He had plenty of opportunities to give himself up, to put down the
weapon, to surrender himself to the police...

What he didn't do is to give any opportunities to the man he shot dead
and the woman and copper he took a shot at and fortunately only wounded
them but even so they will have to live with that for the rest of their
lives...

It's absolutely disgusting that people are criticising the police
about this. While this bloke was on the run everyone was **** scared,
going "Catch him, catch him!" to the cops. When they finally nailed
him the media latched onto these idiots who wanted to say what a hero
he was. This bloke was a murderer, and he blinded a cop! He might not
have deserved to die, but he put the police in a position where they
had a hard job to keep him alive. And their priority was to contain
him, at any cost to him, to protect innocent people. When he was
caught he had 16 cartridges full of ball bearings. He was going to
commit mass murder. He had to be stopped.

I think he was mentally ill and ideally I would have liked to have
seen him rescued from the situation he had created and treated, and
hopefully rehabilitated. But it just wasn't possible.

On this one I agree, sadly there's not much you can do with
psychopaths (except elect them to Parliament)

Sky News don't win all those awards for nothing. They have been better
than the BBC for some considerable amount of time.

In message , John
writes
Sky News don't win all those awards for nothing. They have been better
than the BBC for some considerable amount of time.


This thread has reminded me of the "Spy Swap" coverage.

I watched it on News 24.

There were the planes on the tarmac, a reporter on the spot, and
"experts" in the studio.

As I watched, and as they talked in the studio, I saw a black mini-van,
like the ones the CIA, FBI etc. use in the movies, pull up to the steps
of the American plane.

At the same time, a white mini-bus pulled up to the steps of the Russian
plane.

Ah, I thought, it's on.

The steps from the US plane were covered, so we couldn't see anyone
coming down.

The Russian plane steps were open, and sure enough, there they were
coming down the steps and getting into the mini-bus.

Next, both vehicles moved off, and drove to the other plane, where the
Russian "spies" could be seen going up the steps into the Russian plane.

It's done, I thought, and through it all, they've been gibbering away in
the studio completely oblivious.
--
Ian

wrote:
I just got in, put the telly on to see what's happening about the Mr
Moat story. Obviously I turned to the BBC as a good British citizen.
What I saw whas a recorded programme about parliament. Put Sky on,
live coverage, people on the ground, instant updates.


But was anything actually HAPPENING
that was worth reporting?

BugBear

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)"
saying something like:

The US dropped atomic weapons on effectively unarmed Japanese cities at
near zero risk to themselves. Was that an act of courage?

Yes and no.
Yes, the individual aircrew knew that flying into a hostile zone was
fraught with danger. Yes, they knew there was a chance of a total
stuff-up and being obliterated by their own weapon.
No, they knew they had the skies over Japan to themselves by that time
and for months previously.

As for the bombing itself - it had to be done.

Or the UK
bombing German cities in much the same way as attacking unarmed ships?

****'em, they started it.