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Isn't the point of News at Ten, so it does the big political stories.
Mind you Houses of Westminster not sitting. Hollyrood having a break As are Stormont, Brussels, Welsh Assembly. So that saves 10 minutes of news. Often features, like NHS is bad, Motorways useless, another 5 minutes. So that 30 minutes normally leaves 15-20 mins, reduced to 10 minutes. Stops the Worid. Lobby MPs, we are being short changed 5-10 minutes over the Holidays. |
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Isn't the point of News at Ten, so it does the big political stories.
Mind you Houses of Westminster not sitting. Hollyrood having a break As are Stormont, Brussels, Welsh Assembly. So that saves 10 minutes of news. Often features, like NHS is bad, Motorways useless, another 5 minutes. So that 30 minutes normally leaves 15-20 mins, reduced to 10 minutes. Stops the Worid. Lobby MPs, we are being short changed 5-10 minutes over the Holidays. |
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Puzzles me why Goldberg takes a break from Wm but pops up on Five Live!
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BBC reporter at Heathrow this morning around 0630 saying fog had brought the airport to a standstill and you could see behind him buildings that must have been about a mile away !
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BBC reporter at Heathrow this morning around 0630 saying fog had brought the airport to a standstill and you could see behind him buildings that must have been about a mile away !
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It might have looked odd, however that is not the fault of the BBC nor the report (which is simply relaying the state of affairs as governed by the Heathrow authorities).
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The fog was most of yesterday. Gone today but still a backlog because of it which has a knock on for a while as planes are not where they should be
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Was the airport actually closed?
Normally in poor visibility they can continue to land and take off but the spacing between the aircraft is increased which means they cannot handle as many flights. |
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But it patently wasn't ''thick fog'' as the reporter was saying
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But it patently wasn't ''thick fog'' as the reporter was saying
No mention of "thick fog". Of course it could have been "thick fog" according to the information released by the authorities, or the fog could have lifted somewhat as the report was being prepared. Having said that, I would imagine that visibility for aircraft taking off & landing might need to be greater than what we would normally expect for driving a car, and that impacts upon normal operations would be greater. See here for more info: http://nats.aero/blog/2013/09/why-is...ed-in-the-fog/ |
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BBC reporter at Heathrow this morning around 0630 saying fog had brought the airport to a standstill and you could see behind him buildings that must have been about a mile away !
For the record, at 06:20 the runway visibility at Heathrow was 1,100 metres but still reported as FOG so other parts of the airport must have been foggy, or the runways themselves close to that time. At 06:50 it was down to 400 metres on the runways so obviously floating around, as it does. Yesterday when the main backlog built up it was less than 100 metres at times and that's dense fog even on roads never mind an airport. In other words, if the reporter said what you wrote, he was correct, even if you could see buildings well beyond him. |
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