Newsflash Over the Years

[Inspector Sands]

On the BBC I gather they led the Nine with a voice report phoned in to Radio Cumbria by a freelance journalist who was supposed to be covering their bulletins that evening so the staff could enjoy their Christmas Party, which was soon abandoned.

They had a number of phone interviews - with someone from a local RAF base, eyewitnesses and a reporter from Radio Cumbria who was speaking from the scene..

It looks like there was another bulletin later on - which was a follow on from the 9 o cock news that did have footage. But what time that was on I don't know, there was a 90 minute drama on afterwards so it either replaced, interrupted or displaced that. Or possibly on BBC2 as there was no Newsnight scheduled it being Christmas week. 

A rare example of it being a disadvantage having their main bulletin first