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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ clears schedules for terror plot coverage
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News is
keeping viewers updated on the unfolding development of the airline
terror plot via simulcasts of the latest developments on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
ONE and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News
24.
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The story broke first on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Five Live at
5.40am when business producer Joe Lynam, who was at Gatwick, tipped off the
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to the story.
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From 6.00am ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Breakfast and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News 24 rolled continuously on the story, running
the first aerial pictures of the locations of homes raided by police and as
well as the first pictures of the developing chaos at UK airports.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Fiona Bruce, on her way to catch a flight at Heathrow,
was unable to get into the airport.
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She broadcast live for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Breakfast, describing
Terminal One as at a "complete standstill" and conditions as "unpleasant" but
said that the mood among delayed passengers was "calm and good-tempered".
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From 10.15am, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE began simulcasting live coverage of the story from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
News 24, presented by Julian Worricker and Jane
Hill and rolled until after
lunchtime on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has teams deployed at all major British airports and other key locations, including Downing Street, to cover the story.
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Daniel Sandford and Rory
MacClean broadcast across
all ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ networks and programmes, including Today, Breakfast, News 24, Five Live
and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Asian Network.
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Throughout the day special correspondents Andy Tighe, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Affairs, and Gordon
Corera, Security, have been providing analysis behind the story and reporting on the key live briefings by the authorities.
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Reporters at airports included Richard Lister - Heathrow, Adam
Fleming - Stanstead, Glenn Campbell - Birmingham, Lara
Gordon - Glasgow and James Helm - Manchester.
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Other reporters included Jake Lynch and Andrew
Burroughs and in Washington DC, reporting on the United States' reaction, John
Kaye.
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Tonight Huw Edwards presents live from London Heathrow on the
story for the Five O'Clock News on
News 24, and the Six
O'Clock and Ten O'Clock
News on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE.
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News 24 special correspondent Philipa Thomas will be presenting from Heathrow
this afternoon and this evening.
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Chris Eakin will tonight draw together the
main developments from around the UK and the US with live coverage at airports
from Glasgow to Gatwick to New York's JFK. Ìý
The terror plot story has generated a huge response from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ viewers and website
users. The top story 'Airlines terror plot' disrupted generated
more than 3.2 million page views by lunchtime. On average, a top story generates
around half a million page views.
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Web users have also been turning to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s popular Have
Your Say pages on bbc.co.uk/news - which has received nearly
2,000 comments so far, with 500 posted and another 1,300 waiting to be published.
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More than 1,000 emails have been received from users submitting stories about their experiences at airports up and down the country - which has fed into the rest of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News output.
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